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Edited by Robert Beach
There’s no denying that the comic book superhero is the dominant culture myth of the 2010s. Ever since the double-barreled blast of greatness that 2008’s Iron Man and Dark Knight the genre has risen to greater and greater heights, dominating the foreign and domestic box office, making a massive mark on the national psyche, and making name heroes out of obscurities like Ant-Man or the Guardians of the Galaxy. All of this makes it even more bizarre that WB, the people who own DC Comics and thus half of the entire collection of viable superhero properties, have had such a difficult time turning their huge library of IP into quality films or solvent blockbusters.
For whatever reason, WB has yet to turn out a good superhero film this decade, instead handing in a series of embarrassing failures like Green Lantern, Dark Knight Rises, Man of Steel, and most recently Batman v. Superman. Things seem to be changing however as WB has recently released a whole sweep of information about their plans for the rest of the decade. Could this single an end to years of failure and the beginning of a DC movieverse to rival Marvel? Let’s see.
