With One Magic Word: DC Movie Schedule Possibly Leaked

We don’t have a lot of time this evening – we are preparing to, for the first time, take the podcast out of the studio and on the road to have a couple of guest hosts, which requires the testing of a bunch of new portable equipment and packing it up – but this seemed like a thing we should mention, even if it turns out to be a rumor.

Apparently Hollywood gossip reporter Niki Finke is claiming to have obtained the release schedule for the next several years of DC live action superhero movies, including and beyond Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. This schedule was reportedly meant to be announced at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con in about five weeks – and we might hear something different from DC / Warner Bros. then – but supposedly, here is the schedule of DC Universe movies coming out between now and 2018… and there are one hell of a lot of them.

May 2016 – Batman v Superman
July 2016 – Shazam
Xmas 2016 – Sandman
May 2017 – Justice League
July 2017 – Wonder Woman
Xmas 2017 – Flash and Green Lantern team-up
May 2018 – Man Of Steel 2

Assuming that this list isn’t bullshit or slightly contraindicated at SDCC 2014, there aren’t a ton of surprises here. We’d heard about Joseph Gordon-Levitt producing a Sandman movie for the past six months or so, and DC has been trying to produce a Wonder Woman movie for years, and you don’t subtitle a movie Dawn of Justice unless you have a Justice League movie in the pipeline (unless you’re Steven Seagal, in which case you name a movie Dawn of Justice because it has three words and sounds kinda Buddish).

But the one surprise, to me, is Shazam. I have been a Captain Marvel fan since I was probably four years old. One of the first comics I waited for was Justice League of America #137, where the cover promised Captain Marvel battling Superman.

And if DC is planning on a Shazam movie just a few months after Batman V Superman, that means there might be a chance that Captain Marvel (I know they’re calling him Shazam now, but I am old and crotchety. The Big Red Cheese is named Captain Marvel, Goddammit) appears in Batman V Superman. Which might mean that Shazam fights Superman in Batman V Superman.

And that might feel like cheap publicity for an upcoming movie, but for some of us, it is easily worth several thousand dollars, if not being priceless.

(via NikkiFinke)