I would think it'd be a Bad Idea to put all the Evil Geniuses into the same damn room. Unless one is expecting their super-egos to get in the way of any plans for escape and/or revenge.

This does sound like a damn awesome movie though, if a bit unlikely to materialize thanks to all the big name villains.

About time Green Arrow got a movie gig. But in my mind, rock the goatee Matt Damon does not. Try harder.

How is it possible that theres a DC related movie that doesnt involve Superman or Batman that I'm actually interested in? I pretty much avoid DC, and always have, because I've always thought the DC Universe to be really cluttered with unimaginative, boring, knock-off heroes (not that they're all like that, but come on...), and the only DC books I've bought have been either Superman or Batman related (or Preacher, technically, but thats not really the same thing), the last being Dark Knight Strikes again, and admittedly there were a lot of characters in that that i didn't recognize that seemed pretty cool, Green Arrow amongst them. Between that and the supercool idea of a movie about a supervillain prison (and one with liscensed villains, thanks godz), well, it sounds so good I'm gonna assume its a hoax.

In general, make mine Marvel... but if DC can rock it doing something new (which they have, every now and then, over the years) then I'll support it, just don't ask me to buy an issue of Teen Titans (dig the cartoon tho)

ssooooo ... how many human sacrifices are required to get this movie made? because i have the connections and any idea as awesome as this needs to happen!

How in the world can you call Goyer "superhero movies' best writer" after what he did to the Blade series? OK, Batman Begins was good, but he was just updating a decades old franchise. He'll have to do a lot better to bleach the blood off his record in my book. And Blade III, which he directed, was the worst of the lot (although the ending to Blade II was the true low point of the series).

@hapeximendios: actually marvel knocks off dc's heroes and puts their own spin on them making them gritty and real and pretty much un-superhero like.

might as well let justin hartley play ollie, he's done a great job of it on smallville.

It's like the new Arkham Asylum! In some ways, anyway. I think the shapeshifting aspect is pretty kewl, and may help with continuity (or lack thereof).

This is old news, heard of it over a year ago. Doubtful it will ever get made, DC has a habit of abandoning good ideas in favor of making bad ones into films.

Steel anyone?

@1369ic: What he did to the Blade series was write a script that made the first movie good enough to make it a series (which unfortunately suffered from sequel syndrome). As for what makes him great, three letters: JSA.

@sumocat: Junior Statesmen of America?

I like this idea, but Marvel already did it as a comic story in the Thunderbolts a couple years ago. Hawkeye the archer was sentenced to the Vault super-powered prison. He then escaped with the help of some prisoners. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.20/1453 - Release Date: 5/18/2008 9:31 AM

uhm metahuman prison riots have to suck.
in icicle shiv? at least it'd be numb. also, getting railed by the joker would be that much-more dehumanizing, him cackling the whole time.

Omigod. I think I just came three times.

Yeah, I also thought this was languishing in development Hell and was never gonna get put on the fast track. I, too, am a Marvel guy and only care about DC as it pertains to Batman, but this idea just seemed really cool to me. I've come to like Ollie, mostly through his interaction with Batman in the comics.

But I'm not sold on Damon as Green Arrow. I almost wanna say they should cast someone in their early 40s as Ollie. You know, someone who can nail that surly ass-kicker persona he's always had in the comics. Maybe Dennis Quaid? Or how about Daniel Craig? I'd say Bruce Willis but he'd come off as too, I don't know, quippy?

@Zenn-Lavian: re: Bruce Willis.. he'd also come off as oo conservative. Bruno leans to the right and Ollie is a f'in pinko. (Which is why I like him so).

As far as I recall, Goyer's contributions to BB was minimal and the best stuff came out of Nolan's tooling with it. And Blade Trinity doesn't help his case.

Goyer also wrote Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD starring David Hasselhoff, so I´m not so sure about it.

On second thought perhaps he´s always been a DC guy and now he tires better!

I want this movie to happen so badly, as Green Arrow is the awesome but I am annoyed that they won't call it Green Arrow, as they feel it wouldn't draw enough at the box office.

Ollie must come alive, and in a Batman Begins way, not a Punisher way.

@spacemango: First, DC does not make movies. Warner Brothers makes movies. Second, this is never gonna get made. And third David Goyer is a good writer 80-90% of the time but in that 10% there are some of the worst lines you will ever hear on film and then there was Blade: Trinity where he was writer and director...

@Tiwa Face Kontrol: That's the first thing that popped into my head when read Matt Damon. Truth is not many people could wear it...except maybe Cary Elwes, and he's about 10 years too late.

sounds very cool, particularly the third-tier supervillains, e.g. Floronic Man, Tattooed Man, Iron Cross, Calculator, Count Vertigo... very cool way to populate the prison and give the whole project a "DC Universe" feel.

I'd like to see that actor who played John Amsterdam on the now gone show "New Amsterdam" play Oliver Queen.

This sounds very cool. And it's interesting that the guy escaping has a name that sounds like McQueen.

@holocron: Yea, he could do it, I dunno his name though. I wish I did, New Amsterdam was pretty cool.

@ggodo: IMDB is your friend. His name is Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. I really liked New Amsterdam, even though the homicide detective part of the show was really weak; great cast and the historical parts were fun. Just the police procedural plots had serious plot problems. Pity it was cancelled.

if this movie was shot like batman begins, its a sure fire winner....