User blog comment:Mr. Xemnas/PLANET HULK SET FOR 2015 WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AVENGERS 3WORLD WAR HULK?????/@comment-5473242-20130207024651/@comment-1895174-20130208054255

Of course my opinion of the film has no affect on its development. I don't work for WB. Doesn't mean I can't squirm with every development.

However, I do think a JL movie could be done well, but WB is rushing into it. There's no doubt of that. They confirmed the movie was in development not all that long after The Avengers made a **** ton of money, before they even started putting working into it. And then they go and put Darkseid as the villain, a character who is very similar to Thanos in personality, abilities, and design.

The hype over The Avengers doesn't actually prove that the interconnected superhero universe is the reason for its success. After all, it made about $150 million more than the three lowest-grossing (that is, everything but the two Iron Man movies) MCU films combined. And even if that is the reason why it was so successful, WB can't hope to match that since they're launching the Justice League movie first and then hoping to have individual franchises branch off it. Its prospects are closer to X-Men, a franchise on the way out, than it is to The Avengers.

Granted, the sheer novelty of The Avengers, being the only movie to connect franchises in such a way, definitely helped its success, but that novelty will be gone by the time a Justice League movie comes out. And it certainly doesn't help that they don't get 4 years to actively hype the movie like Marvel did.

I'd like to think The Avengers was a success not because it was connected to four different superhero franchises, but because...well, quality talks. Not only did the previews for the film make it look incredible, but the incredibly strong buzz it was getting in the weeks before it released created a much stronger hype. If the film was terrible, it's highly unlikely it would have made over $200 million in a single weekend, and it would have been impossible for it to have made over $100 million in its second weekend. And, unlike the other two major superhero films this year (both of which were slight disappointments on the domestic front), the movie was just plain fun. It's success wasn't the result of four franchises coming together, but the right people working on the right project. And, at least for now, WB doesn't have a chance at recreating that.