After The Flash returned to The CW on Tuesday night the network turned its attention to the future of the DC Comics universe. Sure, Arrow also comes back this week, and Legends of Tomorrow premieres on Thursday, but a half-hour special was more focused on movies. Specifically, they focused on the lead-up to Justice League.
The thing they were able to show most of, though, was Suicide Squad, which will hit theaters on August 5 (just a few months after Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice). The new trailer for the film gives us a good glimpse at each individual member of the cast -- all DC Comics villains forced to work as a military team for the US government.
I'm not sure how it's possible that a movie entirely about villains like Deadshot, Killer Croc and The Joker looks like it could be the most fun and lighthearted comic book movie that Warner Bros. has produced in a long time, but we live in strange times.
While we don't get a trailer yet, we did at least get our first brief glimpses at Wonder Woman, scheduled to hit theaters in June, 2017. We'll see the character in Batman v. Superman, but the movie that bears her name will tell her origin story. As star Gal Gadot says, "We're gonna see her coming of age -- the entire history." It's something co-star Chris Pine says is "pivotal and important" right now. "The story of a very powerful woman."
Looking even further ahead, Warner Bros. has started showing off concept art for the heroes that make up the Justice League, teasing those individual movies along the way. They focused on three heroes in particular: Aquaman, The Flash and Cyborg.
Aquaman (Jason Momoa), Flash (Ezra Miller), & Cyborg (Ray Fisher) Concept Art pic.twitter.com/pXldfUvvvk
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Notably (especially since this special aired on the same night as The Flash on TV), the film version of The Flash is not the same as the TV version... despite having the same name and origin story.
The special recounts the story that Barry Allen's mother is killed, his father is blamed for it and put in prison, Barry becomes "obsessed with forensic science" in order to prove his father's innocence and eventually he's struck by a lightning bolt that gives him superhuman speed. That story is all-too familiar to anybody who has been watching The Flash on TV since last year, and the fact that they want to tell it all again in a movie -- with a different actor, Ezra Miller, playing Barry -- still boggles my mind a little bit.
Aquaman and Cyborg got similar "origin story with a side of concept art" treatments. It's not much, but at least we get to hear stars Jason Momoa (Aquaman) and Ray Fisher (Cyborg) talk a bit about their roles.
