5. It Gives Them The Most Solid Foundation Possible
Whats the primary thing everybody mentions when comparing WBs attempts to do Justice League to The Avengers? Theyre not building the world properly. They need to do solo franchises first. The fact is that none of The Avengers solo franchises grossed anywhere
near as much as Avengers did there must have been plenty of people who saw Avengers who never saw the previous Marvel movies -- but Id argue its also fair to speculate that even if audiences hadnt
seen those previous movies, they knew they existed. They knew that Disney and Marvel were doing something exciting and original a team up, a crossover, getting all these big franchises in the same room together. A Justice League movie and to a lesser extent a Worlds Finest movie has been plagued by the fact that the writers/director would have to be introducing the world to new versions of these characters, and specifically to a new version of Batman, almost immediately after the one that grossed over two billion dollars worldwide. But everybody knows
Bales Batman; he's the star of the most ridiculously successful superhero franchise on the planet. You want to talk about a solid base from which to build a DCU on film? Over a billion dollars worldwide gross on not just one, but
two solo films.
That's a solid base. If WB could get their act together and actually get solo franchises going for Flash, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern that were worth a damn, I'd argue that a good Justice League movie would have at least a fighting chance of surpassing Avengers' record breaking grosses. Even without those other characters, a
World's Finest movie -- a simple team-up between Superman and Batman -- could have the potential to outgross (and be better than) The Avengers, because