DC Needs To Step Up Their Superhero Movie Production

There’s not doubt about it, superhero movies are absolutely huge right now. This summer alone we’re seeing Ironman, Hulk, Batman, and Hellboy all up on the big screen. Yet as I sit back and watch the success of superheroes movies I can’t help but wonder why DC isn’t taking full of advantage of the situation.

See it’s not an opinion, but fact that Marvel is producing the most superhero films and with those films they are showcasing a wide variety of their vast character library.

On the other hand you have DC’s movies which to date have focused exclusively on the two biggest icons in their library, Batman and Superman. Now that is all well and good but why aren’t the other DC heroes getting some love? It seems to me there is an largely held assumption that all DC heroes other then Batman and Superman are “B” heroes. But you can ask any DC fan and they will happily tell you just how wrong that assumption is.

Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Green Arrow, Aquaman, they are all iconic heroes that have criminally not gotten a motion picture to call their own.

In trying to understand DC’s lack of superhero movies it’s worth mentioning that Marvel’s ability to produce so many movies in the last couple years has been largely due to their practice of using multiple studios. By selling the rights of individual characters to different studios, it has allowed for a bigger quantity of movies to be made but with the side effect of losing some degree of creative control.

For DC, all their movies are done through one studio, that of course being Warner Brothers. Just from a practical and finical standpoint Warner Brothers alone cannot match the production of superhero movies that Marvel has managed by outsourcing.

But recently the playing field has changed. With Ironman Marvel saw the release of it’s first fully financed film. The release of Ironman is actually the first step in a larger plan that builds up to an Avengers movie. With the release of The Incredible Hulk, Marvel has continued to pursue their self financed “Avenger Movie Series”, a series of films utilizing various Marvel superheroes and centered around one connected film universe.

Seeing what Marvel has begun to undertake voids a once legitimate excuse DC had for not producing enough superhero movies. If Marvel can manage to produce multiple movies under it’s own banner, then Warner Brothers has no reason not to step it up and start banging out quality DC superhero movies. And step it up they should because as before stated, superhero movies are absolutely huge right now.

Earlier in this post I rattled off a few DC character names. Those names are but a few of the many characters in the DC universe. So many characters equals so many possibilities. Warner Brothers is the extremely fortunate position of sitting on a film potential goldmine. In having exclusive control of an entire comic book universe, Warner Brothers has a near endless supply of stories to tell. All stories of which come with a built in audience that’s eager with anticipation. Warner Brothers is absolutely crazy to miss the boat on this superhero film phenomenon.

They owe it to the fans and they owe it to the heroes.