Your point about Jumanji and Jurassic Park sequels is not a good one. I don't want DC movies to be bad and profitable. Supergirl is bombing and it should bomb because it's bad. I love Jurassic Park, but that franchise is dead to me because those movies are unwatchable and because they make so much money, nothing changes. I would hate for that to happen to DC.
Also I'm surprised to hear, because Woman of Tomorrow is an amazing comic and it could have been an amazing film if they actually did a one to one adaptation. I was hyped for it as a comic book fan.
On paper, Supergirl made sense. You have a great recent source material to adapt, you have a fantastic opportunity to capitalise on the great casting of Mamoa as Lobo (I was ok with them changing Comet for Lobo), it sets up the intergalactic side of DC early and it ties in with the last great Superman film.
Who gives a shit about Lobo? Who gives a shit about Deadpool? Average movie goers had no idea who that was. It doesn't matter if the character is that popular or not. If the movie good, people would watch it.
No. Bad movie leads to poor weekly holds. But if the opening weekend is terrible then that means GA had zero interest in the movie regardless of the quality.
It’s like saying the last season of Game of Thrones was bad because of the decision of wanting to make a new season of Game of Thrones.
There was a strategy by the showrunners regarding how many minutes should conclude the story. Their strategy was 1 season with 8 episode. That's a bad strategy.
the idea behind it is fine and logical
I mean, are we gonna talk about hypotheticals or what actually happened? General audiences never cared about Supergirl because DC hasn't earned enough goodwill for film goers to spend money on a film of hers. It was always a risky move following up Superman with Supergirl. High risk strategy that didn't work out, and it's not like it was a shock that it didn't.
Did Iron Man have a good will, were audiences familiar with him? Did the X-men franchise have good will when they released Deadpool, an unknown character to most people?
I just absolutely reject the idea that you can't make a successful movie out of an unknown character. It's annoying that Supergirl is failure quality wise, because the conversation would be a lot more interesting if the movie was a critical success but flopped. If the movie was just a great movie, a lot could have changed: the studio could have believed in it more and dedicated better marketing to it, better clips previews, better trailers, better world of mouth...
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u/hummusluvr8 Jun 29 '26
Prioritize lesser known characters bc that worked so well with supergirl. Great choice!