Tag: Dan Didio

In these last few days before Christmas there have been a few quotes about the Justice League and what 2010 has in store for them. Dan Didio addresses a number of JLA topics while speaking with Newsarama,  the JLA movie producer has commented on WB’s evolving strategy, and Mattel has announced that their JLU line will continue.

Justice League Mortal

The most widely discussed/re-tweeted story has been from Dan Lin, the producer of the in-stasis Justice League Mortal. Lin is also the producer of the current Sherlock Holmes film and Collider.com has had a running seven-part interview within him. During that interview Steve Weintraub for Collider asked Lim about JL Mortal.

Collider: You’re listed [as producer] also for Justice League Mortal.

Dan Lin: It’s the dream project.

Collider: Right, that’s why I’m sort of saving it. It’s like the punch at the end.

Dan Lin: Yeah. I mean it’s… I’ll say it’s the reason I started my company. You know, I thought that was the ultimate project. I was a fan-boy for me to work with all those characters together on a team and kind of the themes of that movie. That’s my dream. It’s on-hold right now as DC sorts out its strategy but as you’ve talked to Alan Horn and Jeff Robinov it seems like they’re building to Justice League instead of going with the team movie first and doing individual movies after that.

Collider: [...] are there certain superhero movies that you are interested in bringing to the screen….because I know they did a whole shakeup at Warner Brothers with people letting go of projects and other people coming onboard.

Dan Lin: Right. The only one right now as you probably know, they’re unveiling their DC strategy in January so you’ll hear more about that and they’ll speak about that in the new year. The only other one besides Justice League that I’m working on is the Suicide Squad.

This specific strategy shake-up had been mentioned by Charles Rovin, a director who had been linked with a potential Flash film. However, this is the first time that we’ve got a date for the announcement of the results.

The 1980s Justice League

Over at Newsarama Dan Didio, DC executive editor, is holding an end of year twenty-questions session. In the third installment, it was suggested that the 1980s JLA wasn’t doing to well out of the current DC Universe.

There is a lot of dicussion about if the 1980s Justice League had a target on their backs. I’m happy to tell you Bifford [the questioner] that the 80s JLA group is going to be back, and be back with a vengeance in 2010.

No clue about what that means, but the reference to a “target on their backs” makes it implicit that he’s talking about the Booster Gold and Blue Beetle Justice League. Over at Blog @ Newsarama Russ runs a bit of a conspiracy theory about this quote and DCU recent events.

Roy Harper’s Injury in Cry for Justice.

In the same round of questions Didio was asked “what makes the maiming of red arrow significant when has friends who are capable of replacing his arm?” To which the answer was,

I really want to be very clear about this, this story is not just about replacing it with a cybernetic arm, if that is how the story turns out. And this is one of those cases where I want to remind people to read the story as it develops. There is so much emotion depth that is going on here. Roy is an archer first and foremost. To [..] lose his arm, his ability to do what he does best, is what really leaves the emotional scar on him, not the idea that he can replace it simply, but more importantly that he’s lost a part of himself, the part of him he considered the most valuable, that helped define him as a person. That’s what we’re going see develop.

Roy’s arc in the Justice League has been about stepping into the role of Red Arrow, in succeeding to his father’s place in the Justice League. He was already knock-backed by his break up with Kendra so this really does look like the lowest ebb for Roy – maybe even lower than his old drug habit.

The Price of the Justice League comic book

In the final round of questions Dan Didio was asked directly how DC could justify raising the price of JLA when the sales had declined.

[Pauses] Price increase is only the answer when we improve quality and quantity. We’ve been saying this a lot over the last couple of months, especially with so many people being price sensitive at the moment, but I wanted to reiterate it with this question. A 3.99 price point is something that is on books that have greater than the standard number of pages and will continue to be so. We will continue to hold the 2.99 price point as much as possible, but if we feel that the story warrants extra pages then unfortunately the price will increase with that, but hopefully you will get the feeling of value in that book.

With Justice League: so much that is going on with Justice League, with the fall of Green Arrow and the rise of Arsenal Justice League, will be playing prominently into that storyline. A lot of focus is on the team and how its being built there is a lot of focus on JLA throughout 2010.

Mattel JLU figures to continue in 2010

Miraculously Mattel’s of Justice League Unlimited figures are still running – over three years after the cartoon itself finished. On their Facebook Blog Mattel confirmed that the line will be continuing at Target,

JLU is going to continue in Spring 2010 at Target stores. We’ll have some new figures to reveal at Toy Fair in NY at out collector event on Feb. 14th. Stay tuned!

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And as stated above, JLU will still be at Target stores in 2010. We have some great singles, 3 packs and 6 packs in store including many more fan demanded character, a return to Apokolips and a few out of the blue surprises we think JLU fans are going to love!

Superhero Times has the full quote.