Friday, April 1, 2011

Batman rebooted? Again?

Sadly, this is no April Fools joke. Warner Bros. plans on rebooting Batman, Superman and the Green Lantern in 2013 for a Justice League movie. If you're like me, you are now pounding your head against the desk in frustration.

With the third, and allegedly final Christian Bale/Christopher Nolan Batman coming out next year, WB is not waiting for the dust to settle. They are planning on rebooting the character for later on that year to star on Justice League. The two Batman's will have nothing to do with each other and will be a total reboot, asking audiences to forget the character they saw, potentially a few months prior in theaters.

The same looks to be done for Zack Snyder's Superman. That character will get rebooted as well, and again, have nothing to do with the movie coming out next year. Superman just made headlines as it was announced Amy Adams would play Lois Lane in the movie. The new Superman is a reboot, as well, not having anything to do with the previous four Christopher Reeve movies, or the critically panned Superman Returns.

Are you getting sick of me using the word "reboot?" Yeah, so am I. However, with Wonder Woman getting a TV show, and a goofy costume, and Green Lantern coming out this year with Ryan Reynolds, it's likely not the last time you hear the word.

This, to me, just seems like a lame attempt to follow Marvels success as they head toward the upcoming Avengers movie, after giving all the characters their own movie. It seems like a great move by Marvel, and one that has been expertly handled with mere teases of other characters in the film. DC's version seems like a rushed attempt at making money that could ruin any good storytelling done by Nolan or Snyder.

What do you think? If this movie gets started (which it has before, only to fail), would you go see it? What do you think about reboot-pocalypse?

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