Aug 5, 2022

Zaslav's "10 year plan" is not necessarily a good thing.

 David Zaslav, the guy who killed scripted programming on TNT and TBS, the guy who killed family-friendly programming on HBO MAX, the guy who is killing DC projects left and right, is the same person throwing the 10-year plan and putting the Trinity on top.

Of course the idiots are spamming the hashtags:
ReLeAsEtHeAyerCuT, ReStOrEtHeSnYdErVeRsE, MaKeThEbAtFfLeCkMoViE, etc. Yet they haven't noticed the obvious:

The 10 year plan is the final nail on the Snyderverse coffin.

We're on August 2022, Cavill is busy with filming Witcher season 3 and other projects. At best, he's available in late 2023 or early 2024 putting him in the 40-41 range. After WW3, we don't know if the 38-39 year old Gal Gadot would return as Wonder Woman. Same thing for 44-year old Jason Momoa as Aquaman. Also, 50-year old Ben Affleck, who has already said that he doesn't want to do Superhero movies anymore is unlikely to return and Play Batman until he's 60. 

I know the obvious responses to this will be:
"Ageist" "but Robert Downey Jr." , "What about The Rock", "Old fart Keaton", "Why aren't you mentioning Ray Fisher, you racist bastard".

My responses: Not really ageist, but thinking for the long run.  10 years is a long time and age catches up with people, especially at the over 40-years old range. Add a not everyone ages like fine wine. While I still have some youthful appearance compared to some of my peers, I still look like shit compared to 30-year old me. 
60 year old Affleck won't look as good as 50 year old Affleck... not to mention how J-Lo has drained the life out of Affleck living a double life of Batman and Buttman will kill poor Affleck.

I'm not mentioning Ray Fisher, because it won't make sense for WB to bring him back after all the badmouthing he did against Warner. After 2017 all he had was True Detective, Women of the Movement... supposedly he has 2 upcoming projects: The Piano Lesson, a netflix movie, and Rebel Moon, Hack Snydurr's Star Wars parody.
This has nothing to do with race, but his attitude of burning bridges with WB.

RDJ could play Ironman in his 50s because MOST of Ironman is played by a CGI armor and HUD closeups of RDJ's face from "inside the armor". Putting 10 years of the heavy physically challenging role of Batman on Ben Affleck would require a ton of stuntmen taking his place. I'm mentioning Affleck a lot because he's the oldest Caucasian of the League. He isn't blessed with the youthful genes from pacific islanders like Dwayne Johnson, who also lives, breathes, and eats Gym 24/7. 

What about Keaton? Well, the whole previous point covers it and I'm torn on his partial return that may or may not be removed from the DCEU. I know he's in his 70s (perfect age for a Batman Beyond movie) and that most of the action scenes involve stunt doubles. Part of me likes the idea of seeing him once again don the cowl, but the other recognizes that it's a bit too late for that. (Just because I disliked most of what Snyder did doesn't mean I automatically liked everything post-Snyder.)

I honestly have no idea where The Batman is going to be on this plan. Will it be a different Universe, will it be incorporated into the new new DCEU? I don't know and I hope it remains an Elseworld, because I don't think Robert Pattinson would stick to a 10 year plan.

Warner's best bet is to start anew, with a new cast. Especially with lesser known actors so they don't have to pay outrageous prices from the get go. Also, they have a chance to actually lay down the groundwork and properly build a universe. The Trinity wouldn't NEED to have origin stories, but unlike the ill conceived Snyderverse, you can't start with a nearly retired Batman and a rookie Superman. 

For example, you could start with a Superman who still hasn't fought Supervillains, but has saved people from normal criminals/terrorists, natural disasters, etc. On this first Cinematic outing, Superman finds that criminals are somehow obtaining weaponry that is specifically designed to deal with Superman. This would lead to Metallo becoming his first villain.

For Batman we could start with the rift between Dick and Bruce as the Dynamic Duo with the firmer moving to Bludhaven and become Nightwing by the second half of the movie and end the movie with a teen trying to steal the Batmobile's wheels. Of course we're killing Jason in the sequel and introduxe the new Joker here.

Wonder Woman is the only one I have issues with figuring out her role in making the foundation for this new Universe.

The thing is that WB has a chance to build a strong base for a DC movieverse and putting the heroes in their proper place... the big problem here will be David Zaslav. If he doesn't like what's going on with "the plan" he's going to chop it down as we've seen with the CW stuff, TBS and TNT, HBO MAX, and other projects. I'm hoping for the best, but warning everyone about the worst.

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