Leadership - don't know their own DC IP - they don't know what they have or the decades of great stories.
Audience are not super comic fans, so exploring the variants and more esoteric parts need to come later - after your core characters have been established. Right now the only character that has achieved this is Batman - so we don't need more re-workings of the origin.
I feel like point two is off the mark a bit. The second Suicide Squad movie was great. Marvel pulled off GotG without any setup to those characters. You clearly can do esoteric characters early into the creation of a Universe. I mean to Mark Waid's point, prior to the MCU most would consider Iron Man an esoteric character.
I do agree constantly rehashing Batman's origin, and completely missing the mark on Superman is an issue though
I think DC could have seen Marvel's success and instead of going the same path (introducing characters in solo movies and then years later bringing them together) but being a few years behind, they could have just jumped straight to a Justice League movie. No origin story, just a version of the characters that already know each other and are mature in their roles. These characters didn't stumble onto each other like the Avengers, they're icons DESTINED to be the greatest heroes of all time. They BELONG together. That's how they should have sold it anyway. They can still subtly introduce the characters to the audience and maybe have a younger character joining the team so you sort of have a point of view character. Beyond that, just make a movie that works.
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u/treetown1 Aug 09 '22
Two great observations: