Isn't a three picture deal kinda shortsighted in the modern franchise-business? Shouldn't the standard get to be 6-9 pictures (3 single movies, 3 group movies, 3 options/guest appearances?)

kinda wonder how much worldbuilding matters. Pretty much for us io9ers, surely (though it has to serve the story, think there was an article by CJ on that topic a while back), but for the average blockbuster audience? That's surely what the WB folks hope ;)

Hey Rob, wrote that in another thread already... do you think WB could do a 1-2 punch with Bat v Supes in Spring '16 and Justice League as a christmas movie 6 months later? could be lots of synergy and quick worldbuilding to catch up to Marvel... if they were to do it right and release two legitimately good movies,…

but maybe that's my lack of fantasy / unfamiliarity with the range of Harrington/Teller, i can't really imagine either of them as Reed. // edit: i could see them as Human Torch, but that role seems to be taken (and MBJ seems to be an even better fit, so that's ok)...

the most important thing for the actor playing Reed should be the ability to portray genius level intelligence believably...

maybe the license will revert back to Marvel soon...

So Sony has Spiderman, Fox has X-Men/FF, Universal has Namor, and Marvel the rest?

doesn't he belong either to Marvel or to the Fantastic Four?

how great would it be if the FF movie introduced Namor as a villain/anti-hero? Make it happen! :)

seconded. Reed should at least be in his mid-30s, Grimm at least early 30s... Sue late 20s, early 30s, Johnny at least mid 20s. I sincerely like all actors up for Reed, but they are at least a decade to young.

I wonder if they plan to do a 1-2 knockout: Bat v Supes in early 2016, and the Justice League movie ready for Christmas '16. Sucks if the first movie doesn't succeed, but if it does, they "might" have significantly closed the gap to Marvel. Big if.

wasn't there an EU story about a son of Luke turning to the dark side? Wouldn't that kinda fit with the character Plemons played on Breaking Bad?

haven't really read any Star Wars EU novels... any recommendations? Unknown masterpieces? Books to definitely not waste time with? over the last few years, i've stumbled over this and that factoid from the EU, spent some time on Wookiepedia et al. to read up on it, and kinda liked many of the stories mentioned there…

i kinda feel like this...

we should've had this conversation a couple of years back, when i knew exactly which parts i liked, which parts i missed, which parts i didn't like... can't really go into further detail (or i could, if i dusted off the old 3.5/4e books and took another long look at them), don't remember much more than what i wrote.

if it's not a ccg, i'd take a look at it... if i still had people to play with. but maybe in a year or two, there'll be new folks to play with.

but i didn't see any added value of 4e. where are the non-combat related spells? the non-combat related talents?

i felt that 4e took everything away from D&D that wasn't combat, and thus it was a slower version of Word of Warcraft with worse graphics. Every character kinda was the same, which to me wasn't the solution of the power imbalance between fighters and wizards at higher levels. I get that you have to do this in MMOs,…

fingers crossed. i want it to succeed... but maybe D&D needs a new owner before it can get good again. If it's not too late for that.

instead of worrying about new players (who might need "easier" versions of the rules), they should take better care of the existing players. Instead of taking D&D into the 2010s/the 21st century, they are killing the stuff that makes tabletop gaming great. Like you say, it ain't a boardgame (or the boardgame, like the…