DC and Marvel share their presence in the same movie.
If you’re a veteran reader of superhero comics and started this activity as a kid, you don’t start to realize until you’re a certain age that characters like Superman or Spiderman, for example, aren’t. For the same universe, that doesn’t mean that DC and Marvel haven’t occasionally teamed up to cross-over the two heroes, as we detailed at the time, and more from their respective publishers, always with the goal of increasing sales.
However, true fans of the comic world are waiting for DC and Marvel to jump out of the cartoon and share the spotlight on a live-action movie as much as possible (although we’re not too disappointed. They did). However, in this article, we will focus on the only movie so far, which can be considered as an example of the experience of DC and Marvel cinematography, which, no matter how bad the script, will be a blockbuster. Guaranteed.
And which project are we talking about exactly? To answer this question, we have to go back just two years, when Australian filmmaker George Miller brought together DC and Marvel in one film, entitled Three Thousand Years of Waiting.
This film is part of the dark fantasy genre, as we have already made it clear that it is directed by George Miller and stars Idris Elba (as Genie) and Tilda Swinton (in the role of Alicia Beanie). English novel The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye (1994), by AS Byatt. But what does this have to do with DC and Marvel?
To solve this mystery, we must focus our attention on one of the first sequences of the three thousand years that await you, in which we can see the aforementioned Alicia Binny leading a conference on science and mythology by Tilda Swinton. But to do that, as shown in the picture, Evan Reiss has a poster of Marvel’s Norse Gods that accompanies this article.
However, the image of DC shows a large number of heroes of the company, that of Marvel focuses only on the Norse gods, which does not mean that the importance of this sequence is that we have to show two large images from the first film, both publishers side by side.
As we mentioned at the time, Idris Elba, who plays Genie, is no stranger to superhero cinema. , including Heimdall in Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Thor: Love & Thunder (2022) and Bloodsport in Suicide Squad (2021), Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange (2016) and The Ancient One in Avengers: Endgame (2019).
However, the poster above this paragraph shows that the references to the three thousand years that await you do not end there, as George Miller was fully interested in making a film about the Justice League of America, in 2011. He wants to have the following actors: DJ Cotrona (as Superman), Armie Hammer (as Batman), Megan Gale (who plays Wonder Woman), Adam Brody (who plays The Flash), Common (who played Green Lantern) and Santiago Cabrera (who plays Aquaman). .
Although the original idea was for the film, Justice League: Mortal Kombat, to begin filming in 2007, several problems arose, mostly financial, which led to its cancellation. And, as we all know, we had to wait a decade for Justice League to see the light of day, the first movie based on the popular Detective Comics superhero team.
Will we see a true cinematic crossover between DC and Marvel characters? We comic book readers have fantasized about this possibility for years, so it wouldn’t be surprising if at some point in the future Warner Bros. and Marvel Studios come to an agreement, just like it has in the world of comics. However, until that happens, we need to get details like the one described in this article.