Hey Warner Bros, We Are Not A Risk!

In late 2020, Walter Hamada, president of DC Films at Warner Bros. shared the information that by 2022, DC plans to release four movies a year. Two of those movies will be the high-budget tentpole types that we’re used to seeing like Justice League, Shazam, and Wonder Woman. The other two movies to be released will come out on HBO Max, and they’ll have smaller budgets and center characters that are less of a household name and more of a risk. I’m all for making mid-level comic book movies and throwing them on HBO Max, but… All of the movies that have been announced to go straight to HBO Max in the last 10 months have been characters that are Black and brown. At this point, it’s more than a pattern. It’s deliberate. Every movie I’m about to talk about comes with initial excitement followed by a huge “but.” Prepare for a rollercoaster. Static & Batgirl

Around the same time that Hamada revealed DC’s new release plans, rumors began to swirl about two new properties in development: Static Shock and Batgirl. Everyone’s excitement was immediately subdued when those rumors also mentioned they’d be forgoing the theaters and going straight to HBO Max. Like… why?  We are starved for Black superhero franchises. We have Black Panther. That’s it. And as the rival to Marvel, how is DC not trying to find its own market for that demographic. They already botched Cyborg, which Hamada was at the center of, and now from the jump, it seems like they’re already doing a disservice to St…