Re: The Batman - Solo Batfleck Film (Release: TBA)
Stephen Amell belongs nowhere near a big screen. Dude has the charisma of a 2x4. Which is totally wrong for Green Arrow.
Also, at some point all the comingling and crossovers becomes a burden to keep up with. They should have just had a cogent, clear plan in place from the beginning to set up Justice League with the original 7 members (Superman, Batman, WW, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, and Martian Manhunter). Adding auxiliary characters for universe building would be fine (Green Arrow is the green guy with the bow. Mainstream audiences can pick up that just fine, like Hawkeye in Avengers; Cyborg is the techy weird robot Iron Man guy that controls things from the Watchtower, cool).
I don't hate your schedule, Chad, but DC was in the very unenviable position from the start in that they would have been ridiculed whether they followed the Marvel formula (which your plan follows) or tried something different. So they chose option #2 and tried to do it a different way. Hindsight is 20/20, but there's no reason that kicking off a shared universe the way they did, rather than the Marvel way, couldn't work on paper.
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