I very much doubt that. as long as the film is well made, most of the general public really won't care who's in it. they'll have questions and will ask those questions in regards as to why certain characters were used, but they won't obsess over it and complain ad nauseum online about how "Aquaman" or "Flash" wasn't used to their liking.
That's an idealistic view of the world, and especially the internet.
not hardly. did you actually read what I said? I'm not talking about the internet fans. I'm talking about "Joe and Jane Lunchpail" who merely want an interesting way to kill a few hours on a Friday night before they hit the bars. I know how these people are and I know how they react to films like this because I work with them and I've seen their reactions to films like this and we've discussed them. As long as they're entertained by the movie, they largely won't give a shit who's in it.
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If it was a Doom Patrol film, they wouldn't care who was in it. You could make a Doom Patrol film with Solomon Grundy, Swamp Thing, and Jimmy Carter. They won't care. They'll either see it or they won't, but they won't think much of the roster. Why? Because "Doom Patrol" says nothing to them. It might as well be a movie about an insurance agency; nobody's gonna get mad about it.
you obviously haven't been paying attention to the studios and their ever increasing geekdom and reliance on reactions at events like San Diego (and apparently now Chicago Con).
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Now, the words "Justice League" DO say something to people.
they say different things to different people.
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They say "big superheroes get together".
to many. but not all. to quite a few people they say "that's really stupid." but that's one section of people.
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Bear in mind that the great majority of the film's audience never watches cartoons because cartoons are automatically stupid. To most people, The O.C. is better than any cartoon by default, simply for not being a cartoon.
yep. but at the same time, these are the same people who will (and have) gladly watched films like From Hell, V for Vendetta, 300, Hellboy, Sin City, etc., etc., and mostly like those films. Again, I'm talking about people I know and have discussed these things with in real life. Non comic fans, non animation fans, who enjoyed the hell out of these films.
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Anyway, the JLA is a known concept, so by so much as making the film you can guarantee two things are gonna happen:
1) A lot of people are gonna watch it. 2) Some people are gonna get mad at you.
Whatever you do, SOMEONE's gonna get mad at you if you're handling a known concept. Why? Because if the concept is known, people have an idea about it. And if they have an idea about it, they don't like it when that idea is contradicted. The guy who thinks The Bat-Man is a metaphor for anorexia got angry at the first Bale movie because it didn't have a clear posture regarding eating disorders.
you can't please everyone.
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With a Doom Patrol movie, the risk of angering people is so low, you can do whatever you want. But if you're making a movie about a known concept, and you intend to make lots of money off it, then you HAVE to make sure you don't contradict people's idea of it. In this particular care, that idea happens to be "big superheroes get together". If you contradict any part of that general idea, a LOT of people are gonna get angry and whine about it.
covered all this already.
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By the way, I'm aware that none of this says anything about the objective quality of the film... but let's face it, that's not a very important subject these days.
that's true for the most part. In all honesty, unless it just looks completely amazing I doubt I'll even bother with it. but I know that there are various ways and methods to do this film with or without the so-called "Big Seven" that would make a good and successful film. Will any of them be used? Probably not.
not hardly. did you actually read what I said? I'm not talking about the internet fans. I'm talking about "Joe and Jane Lunchpail" who merely want an interesting way to kill a few hours on a Friday night before they hit the bars. I know how these people are and I know how they react to films like this because I work with them and I've seen their reactions to films like this and we've discussed them. As long as they're entertained by the movie, they largely won't give a shit who's in it. 