Quote from: HuDaFuK on Sep 05, 2014, 08:16:05 AM
Batman Begins did the same for the Batman franchise. It doesn't stop the earlier films existing, they just don't count in the new continuity.
Actually, in the context of DC's Multiverse.. the Burton/Schumacher films still count as an entirely separate universe from the Nolan films. So.. those exist in-multiverse as far as DC is concerned.
Quote from: predxeno on Sep 05, 2014, 07:58:17 AM
Lol, if the rumors are true that Fox is trying to create a Master Continuity, then I imagine it would be ridiculously difficult to rationalize why the AVP movies should be de-canonized; I mean those are actual movies, not just small comics that can be shoved in the back.
Well.. so far it's looking like Fox is trying to create a master continuity and if this book proves anything, it cinches the rumor as being true. As for movies being de-canonized, well.. there are some examples of such movies. HuDaFuk pointed out Casino Royale, but I would think the James Bond master continuity would be the novels by Flemming. The only movies which come to mind which decanonizes movies would of course be the Godzilla Heisei movies, which ignores the previous Godzilla movies but the 1954 original. But the Showa era films are considered their own canon.
I don't like the idea of something being jettisoned from canon as much as you do PredXeno but.. so far it's looking like as if that maybe just the case. Personally, I wouldn't mind them being rendered a canonical/semi-canon AU but.. Fox has the power to say it never happened. I don't like it but so far it's looking like it is what it is.