Fake Wizard

American Culture needs a long hibernating break from anything relating to The Joker and Harley Quinn. Shelve these characters for 20 years at minimum from everything. There are plenty of other rogues for Batman to confront in any/all upcoming Batman movie(s).

A Fake Wizard Roadmap for the next DCU: 1. Superman: Man of Steel > Smallville story of Clark becoming Supes, like Raimi handled Peter Parker becoming Spider-Man. Establish a no-kill rule. Truth Justice and the American way. Let us see Clark learn how to be both Clark and Superman (ie: Christopher Reeve's character switching). > Luthor is setup, but not the main villain. 2. Batman: Caped Crusader > Batman is established by ~3-4 years, takes on Dick Grayson as Robin. Focuses on Robin's anger and grief, battling rage. This allows us to learn about Batman's incorruptability by teaching Robin, not us reliving Martha and Thomas getting shot again. Also strongly sets up Robin for later... > Scarecrow villain 3. World's Finest: Batman and Superman > Team-Up event movie that's never been done before. Bring in supporting cast from both movies. End Phase 1. - Why such a short phase? > Because you'll have accomplished something fresh, never done before (properly), and you can guage audience reception early to pivot if needed. (spoilers, you won't need to pivot if you did this right) - No HBO Max? > No, this is an immesely fragile franchise. NO RISKS. Tentpole movies only. No fracturing of focus. Phase 2: 1. Wonder Woman > Same vibe as the classic Wonder Woman show, but current day. No sword and shield (!) Uses the lasso of truth, braclets, and flings her tiara to ritcochet taking out bad guys like Cap America's shield at least 1 time. > Cheetah villain. 2. Green Lantern > Hal Jordan origin done right. > Sinestro villain. 3. Green Arrow > Can bring in 1-2 other key lesser heroes too. > Gritty > HBO Max show, serious but not R-Rated. 4. TEEN TITANS > This is why it was important to get audiences invested in Dick Grayson early. This also serves as a prologue to > Deathstroke villain. 5. Justice League: Legion of Doom. > This was the whole build up. Get HERE. We've not seen a super-team vs an evil super-team on the big screen. It's always Team vs 1 bad guy. > Martian Manhunter joins the team early here, not introduced till this movie. End Phase 2. - No Flash? > No. I believe the Flash is damaged goods; a debate for another time. - No Aquaman? > No. Still too soon from Jason Momoa's. That changed the character too much. Phase 3: > I don't care. At that point, you've built to the big, grounded event. You could do more Batman, Superman, and Teen Titans, but the longer this goes on, the more cosmic and multiversal it becomes, and I don't care anymore for that; audiences don't either. > Give us a big build up to ultimate team vs ultimate team and you'll make Odyssey money with ease along the way. Notes: > New blood. New writers. New directors. New actors. > Audiences are sick of has-beens. James Gunn is 60 years old. Snyder is 60 years old. Joss Whedon is 62 years old. These guys in their 60s should go do things that are in their style and tell more of their types of stories. The franchises must be passed down to the next generation with guidance of course correcting or it will all die out with the Boomers, Gen X, and Gen Y with them.

Oh Sweet Heavens. You MUST Cancel This. If this is true, there's no coming back if you ship this.

I said it for Star Trek: cancel Starfleet Academy. It’s doing too much damage. I say again here: Cancel Man of Tomorrow. It will do too much brand damage. Salvage everything. And spit roast Lanterns. Justice for Hal Jordan.

Are you providing enough value for shareholders today?

A sigh of relief. I hope the writers never work again.

GTA 6 is a trojan horse. It must underperform. (Not “flop.” A flop means it doesn’t break even. Underperform means it misses the unit numbers investment banks and analysts have assigned to it.) There is a path to underperformance. The bank forecasts cluster around 33-50M units by March. Take-Two’s own guide implies about 33-34M. That’s roughly 25-38% of every PS5 and Xbox Series console EVER shipped (about 133M), or 40%+ of the consoles people actually use. In ~4 months. That’s obviously a high bar. GTA V sold at about a 21% attach rate in its first fiscal year. Miss it by even 10% and the headline is “GTA 6 DISAPPOINTS” even if it’s the biggest launch of all time. "Underperformance" would change all of media forever.

They literally want you dead. > If you disagree with them = they want you dead. > If you agree with them, but are silent = they want you punished. > If you take no side = they want you dead. > If you associate with people who disagree with them = they want you punished.

Soooooooo How's your White Man?

Rest in Piss Modern Audience. Welcome Back Regular Family.

But have you seen Supergirl?

This is the work history for Jeremey Latcham, New President of DC at Skydance

Is this at all believable that they’re supposed to be Mother and Son? I don’t see it. More like Karen Girlboss to College Intern.

Justice for Hal Jordan

I hate writing.

Godzilla Minus Zero makes Nolan’s The Odyssey look like Tommy Wiseau’s The Room.

Can we skip to the part where she loses her job? 😂😂 What a dumbass question from another dumbass journalist.

Yeah, but at least we’re getting a white house ballroom. Amirite?

It's easy for Republicans to lose because they run 1) Terrible Candidates and/or 2) No Candidates at All. On my local ballot there were 3 important seats where Democrats ran uncontested. Then for the people that did run... why would you want to vote for them? Quite often, they're just not good enough. And that's not me saying Democrats have 'better candidates!' No, but they have a strong voting base. Which brings us to 3) The Republican voting base is splintered into Conservatives, 2000's Democrats, RINOs, Zionists, America First, MAGA, etc... And the news base—for that voting base—is splintered even further, getting daily and different hot takes from The Daily Wire, The Blaze, Turning Point, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, Jack Posobiec, PBD Podcast, Dave Smith, Joe Rogan, Mark Levin, Asmongold, Tim Pool, Fox News,... the list(s) go on and on. And all these people have different, conflicting ideas presented as beliefs to put faith in. Democrats have a 'north star' of socialism that all their policies and beliefs near-always point to. A Democrat today is going to push for socialist policies. You can expect and accept that. Do Republicans have a north star? No. They're too splintered. And they're far too confrontational or dismissive with each other to find one. Of course, this is obviously an extremely surface-level examination of gaping systemic issues. I'm not saying this is the be-all, end-all analysis. There are 100 reasons why Republicans lost last night, but from the high bird's-eye level... they're running poor candidates, no candidates, and don't have a central belief system that voters can put their faith in. And for that they lost.