Geekscape Recaps: ‘DC Films Presents: Dawn of the Justice League’

Warner Brothers presented a standalone special on The CW tonight, showcasing off the upcoming and future film projects coming from DC Films. The special was hosted by the comic book man himself, Kevin Smith, along with DC Comics CCO Geoff Johns. The special mainly served as a way to get people up to speed on who the characters are and what roles they are going to play in the upcoming DC cinematic universe. With Kevin Smith serving up the soft ball sized questions and Geoff Johns explaining everything pretty well, that it served well what it set out to do. Watching Kevin Smith’s enthusiastic responses really sucked me into the hype for the new DC films.

First up, they cover ‘Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice’. Nothing really new here, they just show the same clips from the previous trailers with the voice overs from the cast members recanting their first encounters with DC comics. Geoff Johns just goes over the motivation behind the two heroes clashing head to head along with some commentary clips from Zach Snyder. ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ is out out in theaters March 25, 2016.

Next up, Suicide Squad. I’m actually more excited for this film than Batman v. Superman. I can already tell that Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and Jared Leto as Joker are just going to steal the movie. They premiered the new trailer which got me really hyped with the Bohemian Rhapsody track. Not much was revealed about the plot aside from what we already know from the previous trailer. I don’t care about the naysayers, I think The Joker looks bad-ass and that laugh was pretty good. The Suicide Squad try to save the world on August 5, 2016.

Wonder Woman is up next, now based on what they show, which is not much, it left me flat. The first thing that I thought about after seeing some of the scenes was them taking the same route as Captain America: The First Avenger. Gal Gadot does look phenomenal as Wonder Woman and Ido hope later on we see more of the plot in order to get me hyped for the film. Take a look at the first footage from the ‘Wonder Woman’ film here. ‘Wonder Woman’ is set to be released in Summer 2017.

Kevin Smith then segued into who else would be in the Justice league Movies. During this part we some quick flashes of what seems to be some concept art for the other characters in the film. At this point Geoff Johns gives a quick rundown of the back stories for the other characters that include Aquaman (Jason Mamoa), The Flash (Ezra Miller) , Cyborg (Ray Fisher) and the announcement of the night being that Green Lantern and the Green Lantern Corps will be joining the Justice League.

One of the interesting things happened during the explanation of The Flash, Geoff Johns gives kudos to the TV version of the flash and explains this flash will be different as its the cinematic version of the character with a slightly  different origin. The bring up how Barry can easily time travel and access different planes of reality. ‘Justice League’ is slated to be released on November 2017.

I’m excited to see DC finally step it up and go head to head with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Only time will tell if its too late or not enough to compete. Are you guys excited let us know in the comments section.