"[slow piano music]" "The comic books and the history and the lore  it was really special to watch it come together." "Everyone has grown up having their heroes." "These are the biggest names, icons in the world." "It's an amazing opportunity to bring them all together into a single world..." "Batman, Superman," "Wonder Woman, The Flash," "Aquaman and countless others." "The big surprise for the fans, it's gonna be how interconnected all these movies are." "Now is the time to bring everything together." "[music]" "Hey there, Bat fans and Super Friends," "I'm Kevin Smith, and tonight, we're gonna talk about the Dawn of the Justice League." "Man, DC Films and Warner Bros. Pictures finally bringing the Justice League universe to the big screen." "We're gonna see live-action versions of all the characters we've always loved." "And I cannot wait, man, but I'm super fan, so we need somebody, an expert, to talk to about this, someone on the inside." "So, let me bring out my boy from DC Comics," "Geoff Johns." "Come on out, Geoff." " How are you?" " How are ya?" " Good to see you." " Come on up here, man, come on." " Okay." " I've been waiting for this moment" " since I was a kid." "I need to know more..." " Well... about DC coming to the big screen." " Before we get into, that, like," " Yeah." "what was your first experience with DC?" "When I was a kid, probably the first DC comics" "I saw were "Batman" detective comics at a barbershop where I used to get my hair cut." "They gave me a comic book, so I'd sit there reading." "That's where I first discovered Batman." "That's what brought me in whole-hog into that world" " and so much so that it's in my DNA." " That's awesome." "Let's go a little deeper, man." "Explain the beauty of DC Comics." "Johns:" "The DC characters are the most iconic and well-known superheroes and villains in the world." "And all of them have these huge worlds they come from and those worlds themselves are a massive universe all their own." "The idea of diving into each one of their worlds on the big screen for the first time..." " It's a big deal." " changes everything." "When I was a kid, my mother gave me a cardboard box filled with comics." "It was like an entire world had been opened." "Pandora's box had been unleashed." "Our response to these amazing characters is so visceral and so deep." "There's some sort of fantasy fullfilment in getting to watch these superheroes do what we kind of wish would do inside of our mind." "Irons:" "They never grow old, rather like the gods in Greek drama." "They still speak to us." "Tell me a bit about the Justice League." "I know a bit, of course, but I wanna hear you tell me the history of the Justice League." "Johns:" "In 1960, they did this issue of "Brave and the Bold."" "That was the first time they really brought" "Batman, Superman, The Flash, and Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman and Aquaman together and called them the Justice League." "And it was a massive deal." "So, the Justice League universe isn't just these characters come together, it's eight mythologies crashing into one another." " To me, that's the magic." " These characters, these storylines, the Justice League universe, they were designed for the big screen." "[music]" "Let's talk about "Batman v. Superman."" "It's the "Dawn of Justice" because this is the beginning." ""Man of Steel" introduced Superman and then "Batman v. Superman" introduces Batman, and we see those two characters face off and collide, but it's not just them that collide." "It's their respective worlds, Metropolis, Gotham, and everything that comes with that." "Finch:" "Today is a day for truth." "The world needs to know what happened and to know what he stands for." "Superman, he's made the leap, and now he's out there for everyone to call judgment on." "All this time, I've been thinking I'm here to do good." " Superman was never real." " This means something." "At the end of "Man of Steel," Zod was fighting Superman, there was lasers ripping apart buildings, and things were blowing up." "[music]" "Bruce Wayne blamed Superman." "So, explain for those that don't know:" "why are these two titans fighting?" "Well, you gotta remember, this is the first time Superman ever meets Batman." "Batman knows Superman was involved with something that had fire come down from the sky, destroying Metropolis." "[loud explosion]" "There are a number of different ways that we evolve, both Batman and Bruce Wayne, in this movie." "He's older, darker, more world-weary." "He has the power to wipe out the entire human race and we have to destroy him." "[music]" "Superman sees Batman as a criminal, brutal and unforgiving." "[music]" "This Bat vigilante is like a one-man reign of terror." "[screaming, bats screeching]" "You don't get to decide what the right thing is." "Nobody cares about Clark Kent taking on the Batman." " And then you've got Lex Luthor." " The big cornerstone bad guy." "Lex appeared early in Superman's career." "Back then, he had red hair." "So, the movie takes inspiration from the comics." "But, you'll see a a modern-day take on Luthor that spins him into something new." "What he's doing, what he's manipulating, he becomes a different kind of adversary for Superman and Batman." "I love bringing people together." "How are we?" " Lex." " Hi, hello." "Lex." "It is a pleasure... ow!" "Wow, that is a good grip!" "You should not pick a fight with this person." "Eisenberg:" "Lex feels competitive with Bruce Wayne." "He's learned everything about him." "Lex hates Superman, learned everything about him." "He's kind of the puppet master, kind of controlling these two heroes, forcing them into conflict." "Luthor:" "The greatest gladiator match in the history of the world..." "Son of Krypton versus Bat of Gotham." ""Batman v. Superman" begins to set the stage for Justice League, when all of these heroes come together and fight as a single unit." "[music]" "Oh shi..." " She with you?" " I thought she was with you." "Smith:" "And in the middle of this fight, Wonder Woman." " She's got her own movie coming out." " She does, and we're gonna get" " a first look at it later in the show." " And also, later on, we're gonna show you the world premiere of the brand-new "Suicide Squad" trailer." "And we'll talk about Harley Quinn, the Joker, and the other villains of the Justice League universe." "Stick around." "Hello and welcome back to the DC Films Extravaganza, man." "Me and Geoff are about to dive into the villainy of the Justice League universe." "All these villains in DC, they're so varied." "They come from different backgrounds, and they're as iconic and well-known and as colorful as the heroes, if not more so." "You have bigger fans for the villains in DC sometimes than for the heroes." "And now we get to see that on the big screen." "My favorite DC characters were always the ones with the dark side." "You're intrigued by bad guys, you know?" "You want to understand them more." "Now "Batman v. Superman," we've got both Lex Luthor" " and Doomsday, two of Superman's big bads." " Yeah." "Absolutely." "DC has the best super villains there are... like the Joker." "They have so many flaws and so many problems and issues that it's... weirdly enough..." "makes them relatable." "Geoff, let's talk about "Suicide Squad" right now." ""Suicide Squad" is a collection of super villains recruited by this government agent, Amanda Waller, who says," ""Hey, look, you do this mission for the government, and your sentence gets thrown out the window." "And by the way, you'll probably die."" "And that's the key." "So, it's villains against villains." "They're almost like the anti-Justice League." " Yes." " Hmmm..." "Sounds like a movie." "It's taken some work, but I finally have 'em, the worst of the worst." "[music]" " Man:" "Where?" " Let's just say I put them in the hole and threw away the hole." "Society doesn't care about them." "In that way, it adds to the fact that it's the greatest army you can find." "We're bad people doing a good thing." "[music]" "So, that's it, huh?" "We're the patsies." "We're some kind of suicide squad." "It's not a movie about good versus evil." "It's a movie about bad versus evil." "I cannot wait to see this movie." "Give me the lineup." "Deadshot, world's best marksman." "Thing about Floyd Lawton is he gets pleasure out of ridding the world of trash." "Johns:" "Colonel Rick Flagg, the military guy in charge of the field team." "These aren't just bad people." "They do bad things, but they also have loyalty." " Johns:" "Harley Quinn." " Dr. Harleen Quinzel is a psychiatrist and that's where she met Joker and fell for Joker and then borne out of that was the transformation into Harley Quinn." "I hope you got insurance." "You don't know whether Harley's gonna, like, laugh, hug you, or, like, shoot you." "[mimicking gun shots]" " I'm looking at Deadshot's very helmet." " Crazy." " Harley Quinn's bat." "What is this?" " Katana's soul sword that imprisons" " the souls" " Of course." " of everyone it kills." " Oh, that's fantastic." "Now, who are the other members of the Suicide Squad?" "You got Captain Boomerang, El Diablo, the Enchantress, Killer Croc, and finally, the definition of wild card in the movie," " the Joker." " Oh!" "He's back!" "The Joker isn't someone to mess with." "[maniacal laughing]" "Oh, I'm not gonna kill ya." "There will always be a Joker waiting." "I'm just gonna hurt ya really, really bad." " Geoff, this is the Joker's cane." " It is, Kevin." "I'm putting on gloves and I'm picking it up." "You can't stop me." "How does the Joker fit into the Suicide Squad?" "I will only say he's not exactly a member of the Suicide Squad." "That's all you're gonna give me?" " That's it, man." " That's fine because later on in the show, we're gonna see a world premiere first look" " We are." " at the new "Suicide Squad" trailer." "So, enough about the villains for now." "Let's go back to talking about the heroes." "Out of "Batman v. Superman" comes the Wonder Woman movie." "She's gonna get her own stand-alone movie." "We're gonna show you "Wonder Woman." Stick around." "Come on." "Hold that." "[pretending to electrocute with cane]" "Welcome back to the DC Films Extravaganza." "One of the most exciting things coming out of "Batman v. Superman" is the fact that" "Wonder Woman's gonna have her own movie." "I can't wait, man." "Let's talk about Wonder Woman." "Wonder Woman's, like, one of the greatest superheroes out there, but people don't know her origin like they know Superman's origin" " and Batman's origin." " True." "And so, what we wanna do in the film is really tell people who she is, where she comes from, and why she does what she does." "We've never seen it on film before." "She comes from Greek mythology." "She was born on this island of Amazon." "It's called Themyscira." "We're gonna see her coming of age, the entire history, what's her mission." "These Amazons were once created to protect man's world, but they since abandoned it." "And Diana's asking constantly, "Why don't we go do what we were created to do and protect man?"" "And they say, "Because they're not worth it."" "And this takes her on a journey into our world." "Telling a story like this now is pivotal and important, the story of a very powerful woman." "She's an Amazon warrior." "She's the best fighter in the DC universe." "She has strength and speed and she's been training her whole life for war." "Smith:" "Wonder Woman's been around for 75 years." "Feminist, cultural icon." "She stands for equality and that's really important." "I think that's why people love the character." "The greatest thing about Wonder Woman is how good and kind and loving she is, yet none of that negates any of her power." "[thunder crashing] [music]" "Come on, man!" "Wonder Woman on horseback?" "Dude, take my money!" "Take all my money." "Take my kids' tuition money for school." "That looks fantastic, dude." "We've seen Wonder Woman, we've seen Batman, we've seen Superman." "We know there's a Justice League movie coming, so it ain't gonna just be those three." "Who else is gonna be in the Justice League movie?" "With Justice League, you've really started to lay a foundation for a pretty expansive world when it comes to superheroes." "[music]" "Johns:" "Well, first we got Aquaman." "His name is Arthur Curry." "He's the son of a lighthouse keeper and the Queen of Atlantis." "He starts to develop these powers." "He can breathe underwater." "He can communicate with sea life." "He's very strong." "He's the only one that's both human and he's a god." "I wanna see him struggle with the fact that he has these powers and doesn't know how to handle them." "He hasn't been trained." "Johns:" "He grows up not really feeling like he belongs in either world." "So, he's a man who's trapped between two worlds, but has the responsibility of protecting both of them." "What is it, three-quarters of the world is covered by water?" "That's his domain." "[music]" "One of the last mysteries left in this world is what's below." "Johns:" "Absolutely." "And so what else is down there?" " Aquaman knows." " Oh, that's fantastic." "[music]" "Johns:" "We got The Flash." "The Flash has been awesome on television." " They're crushing it with "The Flash" TV show." " It's been great." "This is another Flash, a version in the Justice League universe, the cinematic version of Flash." "Barry Allen, his mother is killed, his father is blamed for it and put in prison." "And he becomes obsessed with forensic science." "He wants to prove that his father was innocent." "And one night, working on his mother's case, a bolt of lightning hits him and he gains super-speed." "He's been struck by the lightning." "That's the mythos." "But he's a human." "[gun shot booms]" "He can run through walls." "He can run across water." "He can run so fast that he can move into another plane of frequency, where there's another reality." "Johns:" "The thing about The Flash is that the past isn't just something he thinks about." "It's an actual place he could visit." "The Flash has all of time, past and present." "Space-time continuum..." "how awesome is that?" "[music]" "We also have Cyborg." " Oh, come on!" " Yeah, I know." "One of my very favorite characters from the Teen Titans." "Victor Stone is an athlete whose father is a scientist." "Victor's in a horrible accident and it's only through his father's talent and skills in technology that he survives." "But he survives only because he's built into a cyborg." "[music]" "He is a technopath, which means he can just interface seamlessly with anything technological." "His greatest weakness is actually trying not to succumb to the technology, trying to stay human." "[music]" "Johns:" "Cyborg is plugged in." "He's online 24/7." "He doesn't sleep." "He just takes in data." "Smith:" "Now, in the information age, that character's way more viable, way more interesting." "Oh, he's an icon now, just like the rest of them. [music]" "All right, I hate to sound greedy, but give me a taste of something else in the future." "Spoil us with information nobody else has." "Well, I'll just tell you, we've been to the bottom of the oceans, we've been to ancient Greek mythology, we've been to the past and the future of Flash, into the digital world with Cyborg." "We still gotta go to space." "So, Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps will be coming to join the Justice universe." "[music]" "That's every kid's dream to see all those Justice League characters together and Green Lantern's a big part of that." "[music]" "I'm about to pass out." "But you know what's gonna make me more excited?" "Coming up next, finally, man, we're gonna show you the brand-new world premiere trailer for "The Suicide Squad."" "Check it out, stick around." "Hi, I'm Margot Robbie." "On behalf of the entire Squad," "I am thrilled to present this exclusive look at our newest trailer." "♪ Is this the real life?" "♪" "Get me out of here, Donald, please." "Let me out!" " # Is this just fantasy?" "#" " Man:" "Come on!" "♪ Caught in a landslide ♪" " # No escape from reality #" " Ah!" "I want to assemble a task force of the most dangerous people on the planet." " They're bad guys." " Worst of the worst." " # Too late #" " Open the gate!" "♪ my time has come ♪" "♪ Sent shivers down my spine ♪" "What is this, a cheerleading try-out?" "Ahh!" "Hi, boys!" "♪ Goodbye, everybody ♪" "Deadshot." "Guy that shoots people." "Deadshot:" "He's a crocodile and he eats people." "Man:" "Burns people." " You're possessed by a witch." " Mmm, she's just crazy." "What was that?" "I should kill everyone and escape?" "Sorry..." "the voices." "Ha ha, I'm kidding." "That's not what they really said." "This is the deal... ♪ No, we will not let you go ♪ ... you're going somewhere very bad... ♪ We will not let you go!" "♪" " Whoa!" " ... to do something that'll get you killed." "♪ We will not let you go!" "♪" "♪ Let me go!" "♪" "♪ We will not let you go!" "♪" " # Never let me go!" "Oh, oh, oh!" "#" " Let's go save the world." "♪ No, no, no, no, no, no, no ♪" "I can't wait to show you my toys." "♪ Mama mia, mama mia!" "♪" "♪ Mama mia, let me go!" "♪" " # Beelzebub has a devil #" " Let's do something fun." "♪ put aside for me ♪ [maniacal laughing]" "♪ for me ♪" " # for me!" "#" " Ahhh!" "[can opening] [slurping] [music]" "♪ So you think you can stone me ♪" "♪ and spit in my eye?" "♪ [music]" "♪ So you think you can love me ♪" "♪ and leave me to die?" "♪" "♪ Oh, baby ♪" "♪ can't do this to me, baby ♪" "Go!" "♪ Just gotta get right out of here ♪ [glass breaking]" "Seriously, what the hell's wrong with you people?" "We're bad guys." "It's what we do." "♪ Nothing really matters to me ♪" "Thank Caesar's ghost, that looks amazing!" " When is that coming out?" " This August." "So, "Suicide Squad" is in August." " When is "Batman v. Superman"?" " March 25." "Oh, we live in a great time, kids, 'cause DC Films and Warner Bros. Pictures are kicking open the doors on their Justice League universe in the coming years, man." "I can't wait, it's time." " Time to see it up, writ large." " Up, up, and away." "[music]" "There is a universal appeal to these DC characters." "[music]" "Each and every one of us wants to be a hero." "These heroes have so many real qualities." "It makes us think we can be heroes, as well." "[music]" "This is seismic, man." "It's gonna be fun going along for the ride." "[music] [screaming in distance]" "Oh, man, that's all the show we got for you tonight, folks." " Thanks for watching." " Yeah, thank you for watching, but I wanna thank this guy, Geoff, for coming here, telling us all the inside information, and making sure my favorite characters from childhood are gonna make it all the way up to the big screen." "Well done, man." "But before we get out of here, we got one more thing for 'em." "Tell 'em." "Don't forget, "Batman v. Superman"" "kicks off the dawn of the Justice League, March 25." "Don't miss it." "[music]"