Director Barry Sonnenfeld confirmed in an interview that he is preparing a film based on DC’s Metal Men comic for Warner Bros.
A new group of DC heroes could be very close to hitting the big screen. In a recent interview, the director Barry Sonnenfeld confirmed that he is working on a film based on DC’s Metal Men comic series, for Warner Bros. “It will be a very specific type of world,” said the head of classics such as The Addams Family and the first deliveries of Men in Black.
Barry Sonnenfeld works on a Metal Men movie for Warner Bros
The DC Comics Cinematic Universe it is about to expand further. At least this was announced by director Barry Sonnenfeld, who recently noted that he is preparing a film based on the Metal Men comic series for Warner Bros.
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Although the rumors of the possible production of a film about the mythical characters created by Robert Kanigher and Ross Andru They began in 2012, very little progress had been made on the subject. Now with the DCEU Established as one of the most important franchises in the film industry, Warner’s plans appear to have changed.
“I am developing Metal Men with Warner Bros. We are actively working on a treatment for that.Sonnenfeld told an American media. “For me, it is not so much a superhero thing but the building of a world. If you look at the work that I have done, either The Addams Family, Men in Black, Pushing Daisies, Schmigadoon! or A Series on Unfortunate Events, I focus on creating a world. A different world, unusual, a little out of place, peculiar. That’s what I love to do ”.
The director also assured that his vision will match the tone addressed in tapes such as Shazam! or The Suicide Squad, placing DC characters in a world similar to ours. “It will be a very specific kind of world. It’s a real world, because I always like things to be grounded in reality, but with a slightly haunted slant, “he said.
Who are the Metal Men?
Presented for the first time on the pages of the Showcase number 37In 1962, the Metal Men is a group of six robots –Gold, Iron, Lead, Mercury, Tin and Platinum– built by the doctor William Magnus to save the world.
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Androids, developed with artificial intelligence, starred two own comic series: the first between 1969 and 1973, and the second between 1993 and 1994. They also interacted with characters such as Wonder woman, Batman, Superman and The doom patrol. Among his most famous appearances within the DC Universe are his participation in the history of Infinite Crisis, the approach of Justice League of America 2006 and The New 52, where they were given a new origin.
They were also briefly addressed in animated films. Justice League: The New Frontier from 2008, Justice League: Gods and Monsters 2015, and DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games, 2017. They recently starred in a miniseries of shorts produced for the bar DC Nation from cartoon Network.
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