9 Changes Warner Bros Wishes It Could Make To Its DC Universe
1. More Creative Risks
Warner Bros is showing signs of emulating the Marvel Cinematic Universe on screen, following in its footsteps with post-credits stingers and banter-driven hero antics, but the lesson it should draw from the MCU is that it pays to take creative risks.
Most of the DC cinematic universe movies fall into the vanilla superhero genre, with the exception of Suicide Squad which mixed things up by going villain-centric, but the best Marvel films are the ones that have experimented with different genres.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier was an intense spy-thriller, Thor: Ragnarok has rock operatics at its core and the Guardians of the Galaxy movies are full-on space operas. This is the kind of variety the DC movies need, and they certainly have the characters to pull this sort of thing off.
With any luck, upcoming films like Justice League Dark and Green Lantern Corps will broaden the franchise’s output, the former adding weirdness and the latter sci-fi elements, but these are the kind of risks Warner should have taken earlier on.
It didn’t hurt the shared cinematic universe when the studio decided to take a punt on a female-fronted superhero movie, did it?