9 Changes Warner Bros Wishes It Could Make To Its DC Universe

9. More Standalone Films First

Warner Bros executives looked at the Marvel Cinematic Universe next door and turned greener than the Incredible Hulk. When The Avengers hit big at the box office, they wanted a DC-flavoured rival to this bastion of superheroic might yesterday.

The only problem was that the majority of DC Comics’ heroes needed a movie reboot at this point, while others needed a cinematic debut and origin story.

If there’s one mistake a studio must avoid when building a cinematic universe, it’s haste. Marvel, which introduced each of its main characters with solo outings before bringing them together in The Avengers, has the formula down to a tee, and Warner charged to the finish line quicker than Barry Allen in a race against Superman in its desperation to emulate its rival.

Before the Justice League came together, each of its members should have been given standalone films, and good ones at that. Only Superman and Wonder Woman had that privilege, and the latter was messily introduced in Dawn of Justice's joyless dressed reherseal alongside Ben Affleck’s Batman.

Everything about the universe creation process was rushed. Granted, Justice League sounds like it has turned out better than expected, but if Warner had held it back until 2020 to focus on scene-setting solo movies, it might even have been the MCU killer the studio is so eager to make.