Warners shuffles DC into Motion Picture arm

Diane Nelson appointment as head of WB’s new DC Entertainment arm has received a lot of coverage. DC will become an arm of Warner Brother Entertainment, which is what many of us would consider the real Warner Brothers without all the Time, AOL.com, TV station fluff. It’s an interesting move certainly, and its telling that Nelson deliberately hasn’t taken over the Publisher role.

What does this mean for the Justice League?

For the comic books? I suspect it won’t mean very much at all until we find out how the corporate structure in New York changes. It could open up all sorts of production changes (digital comics, changes to reprints, distribution channels, etc), but I wouldn’t expect it to change the real content of the books. Watch Dan Didio! He controls the comic book DC Universe – where his fate goes so does the comics.

For the movie? Well that’s an entirely different matter. The point of the shuffle is to unlock DC’s intellectual property. The Harry Potter films delivered WB eight big tent-pole films from a book series that was just seven novels long and its Diane Nelson that’s being credited with managing that. They must surely expect her to do something similar with DC Comics. A Justice League film is a distinct possibility, we almost got one last year, but I can’t imagine that particularly script moving forward until this new DC entity has reviewed all its options.