WB/DC Plans Live-Action Teen Titans TV Series

[madwarper]

Live action? Teen Titans? Am I to assume that Beast Boy isn't going to make the team? Because I don't see how they're going to have the special effects for his constant shapeshifting on a TV show budget, unless they use the craptacular level of effects on par with a SyFy original movie.

Either way, I'm tentatively excited about this.

 

[Fox12]

Well, live action automatically gets it points for not being so ashamed of itself that it had to rip off anime visuals. I was never a fan of the art style for the cartoon.

I don't get it, what was wrong with the visuals? It's not like the Japanese haven't borrowed techniques from us. As long as the visuals support the tone of the story, and the writing is consistently good, does it really matter? I thought Avatar did an excellent job as well. Though, that was actually animated in Korea, so I suppose that ones debatable.

I am not a fan of anime that abuse those stupid tear drops, exaggerated features and shoddy animation that appear when a character gets shocked, angry, embarrassed or scared. You know what I'm talking about. It looks terrible, and why Teen Titans felt the need to emulate such an annoying style baffles me.

I can understand not liking the animation style, I suppose. Though I don't think it looks much different from Phineas and Ferb or whatever. Of course, I hate Phineas and Ferb, so there's that. I do really hate the new version of the show, which is basically nothing BUT what you described.

 

[vid87]

"Akiva Goldsman, who wrote Batman & Robin nearly two decades ago,will write and executive-produce the pilot."

Unless we get the version of this writer who did I Am Legend, you've lost half of the potential audience right there.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Well, live action automatically gets it points for not being so ashamed of itself that it had to rip off anime visuals. I was never a fan of the art style for the cartoon.

I don't get it, what was wrong with the visuals? It's not like the Japanese haven't borrowed techniques from us. As long as the visuals support the tone of the story, and the writing is consistently good, does it really matter? I thought Avatar did an excellent job as well. Though, that was actually animated in Korea, so I suppose that ones debatable.

I am not a fan of anime that abuse those stupid tear drops, exaggerated features and shoddy animation that appear when a character gets shocked, angry, embarrassed or scared. You know what I'm talking about. It looks terrible, and why Teen Titans felt the need to emulate such an annoying style baffles me.

I can understand not liking the animation style, I suppose. Though I don't think it looks much different from Phineas and Ferb or whatever. Of course, I hate Phineas and Ferb, so there's that. I do really hate the new version of the show, which is basically nothing BUT what you described.

You apparently haven't watched the new show, then. It's actually a competent comedy cartoon about a bunch of assholes masquerading as superheroes. Really one of the funniest (kids) cartoons currently on TV. The 2003 show was this schizophrenic mess that didn't know whether it wanted to be comedy or action. Not that action comedies can't work, it's just that this one was more like two totally separate shows in one body, neither of them very good, and with totally different goals.

Far as the art style goes, it was 2003, the height of the anime boom. There were quite a few cartoons that were aping the anime style at the time without really getting what made it work. Teen Titans was one of the worst, with the way it did the expressions.

 

[Atary77]

When I hear live action super hero TV series, I can't help but feel like it's going to be boring and limited by it's TV budget. I never get what I want from a live action super hero TV series. Powers are displayed very little, costumes get dumbed down or taken away, characters are made cheaper, too many liberties are taken to "make it work" for TV and the list goes on. Don't believe me? Just look up every single live action super hero TV series ever made. Hell MovieBob already talked about a lot of the garbage Marvel tried.

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

Yes pleeeeeeeeeeease!

I feel like there is more nerd stuff coming out every day. I'm not really exactly a fan of Arrow, but that guy was basically Batman with a bow for the longest time.

But a team of superheroes? With real superpowers?

Bring it on pleeeeease.

 

[Kimarous]

Personally, I'd just prefer if they'd finish the Young Justice cartoon, but hey, I'll take it. Depends on the quality of the end product, however. I haven't had the greatest faith in WB/DC live action productions as of late.

 

[gigastar]

Well i cant say im not interested.

But, this isnt necessarily going to have the same people behind it that Arrow does.

And even if this doesnt share the Arrow continuity, i just hope they get Bennett in to play Deathstroke again.

 

[Vausch]

Oooh, interesting!
Now lets wait for the disappointing announcement that the show will have no jokes, and since this is Teens we're talking about... angst. Lots... and LOTS, of angst.

Great. Now you have me convinced that this is going to turn into the Superpowered version of the OC.

So much anger do I have...

They already tried that. Remember the failed pilot for the Justice League TV show?

 

[rosac]

I reallllllly hope this is tied into arrow/the flash. Lets get a world built! Also, Arrows version of Slade vs. The teen titans would be awesome (Excellent casting choice, even if they had to make deathstroke australian for it to work)

 

[FPLOON]

Oooh, interesting!
Now lets wait for the disappointing announcement that the show will have no jokes, and since this is Teens we're talking about... angst. Lots... and LOTS, of angst.

Great. Now you have me convinced that this is going to turn into the Superpowered version of the OC.

So much anger do I have...

I was thinking more of Dawson's Creek for some reason...

So much laughter do I have...

OT: Would they tried to get Daniel Radcliffe to play as Nightwing? I hope so...

Other that that, Christina Ricci as Raven, per chance?

 

[marscentral]

Well, the Teen Titans cartoons were great and Go! is hilarious. So I hope they borrow liberally from there and the older comics and not the New 52 versions. I imagine they might want to keep Cyborg for the Justice League films though as he is in the New 52 comics.

 

[Mortuorum]

Oooh, interesting!
Now lets wait for the disappointing announcement that the show will have no jokes, and since this is Teens we're talking about... angst. Lots... and LOTS, of angst.

Akiva Goldsman, who wrote Batman & Robin nearly two decades ago, will write and executive-produce the pilot.

Oh, you'll get jokes. Awful, terrible jokes that will make you cringe. But, yes.

Waffles.

 

[Jmp_man]

Yes, yes, yes, yes yes yesyesyesyes OH SWEET MERCIFUL MARV WOLFMAN YES! Maybe it's a little early to be getting hyped, but I'm feeling pretty freaking hyped! Especially if it shares a universe with Arrow and Flash, just so we can get Arrow's Deathstroke.

As someone who doesn't read comic books and refuses to watch any comic book related material... I'm getting a little stoked as well.
(Also Arrow's Deathstroke sounds quite NSFW out of context... or maybe he just has a stroke and dies? See above statement about not reading comic books.)

 

[immortalfrieza]

The original Teen Titans cartoon is brilliant, so I'm wondering if they'll try to take cues from that or just be completely original. Eh, it'll be hard for them to do worse than Teen Titans Go! at least.

 

[And Man]

You apparently haven't watched the new show, then. It's actually a competent comedy cartoon about a bunch of assholes masquerading as superheroes. Really one of the funniest (kids) cartoons currently on TV. The 2003 show was this schizophrenic mess that didn't know whether it wanted to be comedy or action. Not that action comedies can't work, it's just that this one was more like two totally separate shows in one body, neither of them very good, and with totally different goals.

Far as the art style goes, it was 2003, the height of the anime boom. There were quite a few cartoons that were aping the anime style at the time without really getting what made it work. Teen Titans was one of the worst, with the way it did the expressions.

Thank you for not being one of the people that automatically dismisses Teen Titans Go! because it's different from the 2003 Teen Titans cartoon. I really enjoyed the 2003 Teen Titans, and Teen Titans Go! was a pretty damn funny show that one of my roommates and I watched fairly regularly senior year of college. To anyone that hasn't seen TTG! at all, I'd recommend the episode Colors of Raven.

As far as the live action show, I foresee the same problem: fans of the 2003 cartoon getting upset that the live action Teen Titans is too different from the "original" Teen Titans (even though, from what I've read/heard, the 2003 cartoon Titans were fairly different from their comic iterations).

 

[Devin Barker]

If ANY of the DC shows that are out were good, I would be excited. Ive been collecting Titans since the 2000 (right?) reboot, I own every issue. After seeing what they did to Arrow (does he have to have a good cry every episode?) I have no faith in them doing titans without turning into a teeniebopper show where they all have dating problems withing the group and it makes it "so hard" to live/work together.

 

[Avalanche91]

The immediate questions that come to mind:

So is Starfire just going to be an airheaded sexdoll?
Is Beastboy going to be on the team at all?
Does the no-joke rule go for the entire DC movieverse or just the Justice League team-ups?

Depending on the answers, this may or may not have my interest.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Now will they have the full costumes, or will it be just about a bunch of teens with powers. Im guessing it wont be a live action version of the cartoon.

 

[immortalfrieza]

Thank you for not being one of the people that automatically dismisses Teen Titans Go! because it's different from the 2003 Teen Titans cartoon. I really enjoyed the 2003 Teen Titans, and Teen Titans Go! was a pretty damn funny show that one of my roommates and I watched fairly regularly senior year of college. To anyone that hasn't seen TTG! at all, I'd recommend the episode Colors of Raven.

I don't know about everybody else, but I dismissed Go! because:

1. It was a cartoon initially billed as a continuation of the previous show at least in spirit before it came out, then it came out and obviously wasn't even remotely like the previous show.

2. It was born from the demands of fans prompted by Teen Titans shorts that actually were faithful to the 2003 series, and then completely failed to be faithful itself.

3. The characters are a bunch a hypocritical psychopaths masquerading as heroes that gives no reason to give a damn about anything that's going on.

4. It's a show starring superheroes that don't actually do anything remotely heroic or super.

5. The 2003 show knew when to be funny, when to be serious, and when to get to the action and how to do all of it, and as a result made each part more effective than it could have ever been on it's own. Any particular episode of Go! is just one bad joke and slapstick after another, and unlike other shows like Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry and so on that do the same, the jokes and slapstick are horrible and frequently extremely dark. Black comedy without the actual comedy. For instance, one episode has Beast Boy pranking the entire team into killing themselves before ending up dead himself, there's nothing funny about that and the entirety of Go! is just as bad.

6. The characters are generic. They could take them out and replace them with any other cartoon's characters and you'd never be able to tell the show was a Teen Titans show or any other superhero show for that matter.

In short, Go! is terrible in every way it could be bad, and the fact that the much better show to compare it to preceded it doesn't help matters. However, even if the 2003 show hadn't existed Go! would still be no less bad.

Young Justice is what Teen Titans Go! SHOULD have been like, but it didn't last long.