I would think WB backs off of the whole concept of doing a shared universe...
WB won't back off of anything. The shared Universe is in full effect.
and they have a history of doing that.
They already broke their own course of history. They never attempted a shared Universe with DC characters before that got off the ground. The only attempt was Green Lantern. That was a true failure. WB/DC already has Man of Steel and Batman V Superman under their belt with Suicide Squad on the way and Wonder Woman finished. Justice League begins production in a few weeks. That puts this shared Universe already at 4 finished movies with another to begin shooting that will set up even more solo movies and part two of their Justice League saga.
At the very least, I would think Snyder gets replaced as being supervisor of their "sandbox", or whatever his version of Feige's role is.
But do you really know what WB has a history of? Backing Zack Snyder, regardless of his divisive movies. Not only did they show him the Ferrari, they gave him the keys and the haters can't stand it. They've handed him the Dawn of the Dead remake, Watchmen (which was said to be an impossibility) 300 (another sacred comic book property) a Superman reboot, the first meeting ever between Batman and Superman and the first ever assemble of the iconic Justice League; let alone being the overseer of DC's first shared universe. The only people that are in denial, is refusing to believe that. Zack Snyder is WB's golden boy and he's doing just fine and so will the fans.
Tone doesn't matter - at all. How dark the shots are doesn't matter much. How big the fanfare is doesn't matter either. How the story is told does.
Disagree. Things like tone do matter because it is an extension of storytelling you are speak of. The tone of a scene is meant to control a person into feeling a certain way about what is being told on the screen. Tone convey's emotion and situation that allows the audience to interpret what they are interpretating in their own way. Tone essentially is the key to what the director is going for in storytelling. Another way of storytelling is visual, and we ALL know Zack Snyder is a visual storyteller and he can set up the next action scene like nobody else's business. If you read reviews, it's not necessarily the story that the critics or fans are complaining about. It's tone (dark; brooding; joyless) editing and pacing. Everybody seems to completely discount acting as storytelling as well. Everybody is agreeing on that the acting involved in BvS is phenomenal across the board and it's the actor's job to convey story telling in their performances, so you're off the mark. There's no one way to tell a story.
Oh and if you don't believe me, there was a massive video that was released just last year that went viral. People went NUTS over it. It was titled "This is what Man of Steel would of looked like in a brighter tone" (paraphrasing.) All the video editor did was spike up the lighting effects and offer colorful contrasting and the specific scenes in the movie were automatically different feeling...because the tone was different.
Marvel gets that, they understand that...so does Disney in general. Yeah, they have a few average movies but it is not the general rule....and frankly, I don't think their average movies are as bad as you all write them off to be.
Fap, fappity, fap fap fap. There's where the denial comes in. Marvel; Disney has made bad movies and yes, some are as bad as they are written to be. But don't tell anybody that or LOOK OUT.
