'Justice League' Movie 2018: DC Wants Separation Of Movies & Comic Plots, 'Shouldn't Be Literal' Translation [VIDEO]
While Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is the next DC Comics movie on the list, the one that looks to be the most interesting is Justice League, which will have DC trying out the Marvel model before the standalone movies hit. But does DC feel like the movies should follow the comics or do an entirely different thing?
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Speaking with Variety during Comic-Con, DC co-publisher Jim Lee spoke about the story lines they look to go down in the upcoming movies and whether they follow the comics or not.
"Zack is a comic book fan and draws inspiration from the comics. He doesn't need to be given advice. He's a talented filmmaker. He's a super stylized visualist," Lee said.
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"He'll do stuff no one has ever done with the Caped Crusader and blow everyone away. He knows how to take the sensibility of comic books and do what other filmmakers don't know how to do."
But one of the constant issues fans have with the movies is that they alter the story lines of the comics and should be more "literal translations." For Lee, he feels like the mediums feed into different monsters and should not be the same thing as what the other is doing.
"I know a lot of filmmakers will look at the source material and what we capture on paper and translate that entirely onto film, but it shouldn't be a literal translation of the comic books themselves," Lee said.
"We work in a medium that has no end. A film should have a beginning, middle and end and resolution until the next one comes out. We're telling a story every single month. They're different sensibilities."
One of the biggest controversies was Snyder's casting of Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor because the character will take over a look more like Eisenberg's famous role in The Social Network rather than the bald, powerful billionaire role that Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey have played before.
Justice League will be in theaters in 2017.
