Justice League depending on Man of Steel's success?

Apparently so.

According to Variety, Warner Bros. President Jeff Robinov basically said the greenlight on the 2015 Justice League release depends on the success Zack Snyder's new Superman film, Man of Steel. If the movie does well they will move forward. If not then I guess they will scrap Justice League until they can do a better lead into it and plan a little more. I personally think they should do the latter regardless, but you can't tell Hollywood anything. They just want money. It isn't about releasing quality films anymore.

This statement most likely happened mainly due to how lackluster WB's DC adaptations have been apart from the Batman trilogy Christopher Nolan gave us. Green Lantern was a huge disappointment in 2011, Superman Returns basically bombed in 2006, they haven't been able to get anything off the ground regarding Wonder Woman, we can't possibly forget how awful Catwoman was in 2004, etc.. Even Snyder's other DC film Watchmen got some pretty harsh criticism in 2009. I'm not surprised they are putting the fate of Justice League on Man of Steel, but I feel like they might be deceived. People are going to see Man of Steel regardless just because it's Superman. There are a lot of people excited for it. Even if the movie sucks it will still rake in a decent amount at the box office. That is my prediction.

Man of Steel opens in theaters on June 14, 2013.

Warner Bros. plans to have the Justice League by 2015

Add yet another Justice League related bit of potential truth to the pile. A very large pile.

According to the LA Times, Warner Bros. is hoping to complete a Justice League film no later than next year so it can be released in the summer of 2015, a little bit after The Avengers 2 which is set for May 2015.

Will Beall is already working on a script but so far the only DC film we have on the way is Man of Steel which comes out on June 14, 2013. If they want to try and fully mock what Marvel has done with Phase 1, and now Phase 2, they will have to rush at least one more character film in for 2014 before Justice League in 2015. Whether that is another Batman flick already or one centered around Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, etc.. We had a Green Lantern film with Ryan Reynolds last year but it was a complete flop and many who saw it, including myself, hated the shit out of it. Absolute trash.

In order to make this work and have it be decent Warner Bros. has their work cut out for them. They have to begin casting for at least 5-6 main characters and also toss around the idea of introducing another independent superhero film after Man of Steel. My bet is they will try to make a movie for Wonder Woman so we'll see if I'm right. It's a bit too soon to try and reboot Batman already, imo.