Lawrence Fechtenberger wrote:
Rider wrote:
Unless you make an incredibly good superhero movie you are going to fail at this point.  
   THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN was a success just a few months ago.  No one, its admirers included, has called it "incredibly good."
Yes let's pick one example and hold that up really high.  Should we go through the dozens of others that tanked, Jonha Hex, Cowboys and Aliens, John Carter, Green Lantern, Green Hornet --again waits for the strawman--, Ghost Rider, Fantastic Four...

The market was already saturated, by the time a Justice League movie could come out we will have had 5-6 more in the Avengers series, an Avengers TV series, another X-men movie...

Add to this the fact that movies are costing more to make as box office hits record lows.  We have a lot more Batman and Spiderman reboots as the proven cash cows bring in the money and fewer and fewer other heroes making it to screen.  If someone went to the table today and proposed the Avengers series there is no way it would get greenlit today, we are very very lucky the timing worked out so well on it.