From Justice League and Superman II to Dark Phoenix and The New Mutants, these are the superhero movies that had a tough time getting to the big screen, and whether that tough time was worth it.
Film productions are complex, with thousands of individuals from hundreds of different professions merging their talents to create something that, in the end, audiences will say some combination and variation of “Meh,” “That was great,” or “That was terrible” about. And, given there are so many different people working on one final result, everything needs to function like clockwork for the reactions to skew “That was great” over the other two options. Or, does it?For the most part, yes.
The fault lays with both director Trank and studio Fox. One was allegedly erratic on set, the other demanded reshoots that effectively reconstructed the project from the ground up. The powers that be at Fox may not have liked Trank’s cut of the film, but it’s hard to imagine it being any more of a dud than the boring nonsense that audience members paid to see.
The movie’s behind-the-scenes tumult, and subsequent bombing at the box office, was enough to serve as the beginning of the end for the DCEU and more than enough to tarnish all the goodwill Whedon gained via‘ success. That will happen when you threaten several of your actors’ careers . And, while Gadot and Ray Fisher didn’t shed light on Whedon’s on-set behavior until years later, the film’s reputation had already been dragged through the mud over and over before it played on a single screen.
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