Warner Bros. should be optimistic about the film's performance, with box office analyst Jeff Bock telling THR that when you adjust for inflation, this is the highest - grossing
DC superhero property, ever.
Not exact matches
In fact, most of the best villains historically feature in
superhero movies based on
DC properties: Terence Stamp's Zod in Superman and Superman 2; Jack Nicholson's version of The Joker, even Michael Shannon's freakishly venomous version of Zod in Man of Steel.
Of the top 20 highest - grossing
superhero movies of all time, all but one are based on a
property that originally appeared in comics published by either Marvel or
DC.
The
DC Extended Universe is now planning to reboot the
property with Green Lantern Corps, but Ryan Reynolds has moved on to his ultimate
superhero destination.
While Marvel and
DC continue to focus on legacy
properties that cater to a fairly narrow range of genre fans and are produced by artists who don't own the characters they work on, Image has gone in a different direction with an array of creator - owned comics that include
superhero, science fiction, and other types of stories.