If you were hoping to see a sequel to the animated “Green Lantern: First Flight” or “Wonder Woman,” our next story will come as a disappointment.
Warner Brothers Animation writer/producer Bruce Timm says the follow-up projects for both heroes have been canceled.
“We had originally planned to do sequels for ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Green Lantern,'” revealed Timm during an interview with Think McFly Think. “With ‘Green Lantern,’ it didn’t perform nearly as well as what they had hoped it would.”
“In the long run, it eventually made its money back, but the sales weren’t there right away during its release.” he added. “Hopefully with the release of the live-action film next year, that will open up the doors for more ‘Green Lantern’ related material.”
Timm also stated that slow sales of the “Wonder Woman” movie led to a potential “Batgirl: Year One” film also being put back on the shelf.
“‘Wonder Woman’s’ sales started out extremely slow and then over time were eventually able to catch up to probably ‘Justice League: New Frontier.'” said Timm. “The Exec’s decided because it wasn’t able to sell quickly right away, whereas ‘Justice League’ was, that there wouldn’t be any more female super hero films right now. We were developing and hoping to get started on a ‘Batgirl’ film based on ‘Year One,’ but because of ‘Wonder Woman’s’ slow sales start, that won’t be happening now.
When asked about long-rumored adaptations of “Batman: Hush” and “Batman: The Long Halloween,” Timm replied “‘Hush’ isn’t something that we’re all that interested in our end, but it has come up. The real problem with ‘Hush’ is that it works better as comic then it would as a movie. It could work as a show, maybe. The same can really be said for ‘The Long Halloween’ as well. It works a lot better as a comic, and not so much as a movie.”
Timm also confirmed that there are no current plans for an “Aquaman” animated film or an adaptation of “New Teen Titans: The Judas Contract.” However, Timm did indicate that “Batman Beyond” may be revisited down the line.
“We’ve definitely discussed having a ‘Batman Beyond’ re-union of sorts,” said Timm. “But it won’t be happening anytime soon if it does get made.”
Ef you WB.
Wonder Woman was excellent. I would like a sequel. I think most people didn’t even know what it was.
So even though it made money, and now has a bunch more people that know about them and would want a sequel, it didn’t make it’s money fast enough, so everyone who bought it is screwed. It’s not like seeing a movie in the theatre; if you bought it, you more than likely knew ahgead of time that you’d like it. I just don’t get the reasoning of “these movies made us a profit, but they didn’t do it fast enough, so we’re not going to make another one (which would make us more profit)”.
Aw F’ it… I’m just buying Marvel DVD’s from now on. I can’t stand WB.
I would love to see something with Darkseid or the New Gods in General. Maybe using lesser known older mini series called Cosmic Odyssey (Starlin/Mignola) would make a good story.
Whatever happened to “if at first you don’t succeed”, “keep hammering”, or “snowball effect.” All of it is wasted if TPTB just quit. The live/CGI Green Lantern film next year would benefit from a sequel and, given the unlikelihood of a WW live action film anytime soon, a sequel to the animated film makes all the sense in the world as far as building on her exposure. There are even international fans would love to get their hands on the current flicks.
For what it’s worth, I’ve started a petition.
http://www.petitiononline.com/Batman22/petition.html