Steven Spielberg to Direct ‘Blackhawk,’ His First Comic Book Movie!

Their popularity in comics wanes from time to time now, but their most prominent use in comics recently was in DC: The New Frontier (and its animated adaptation) and a brief role in Dark Nights: Metal.

The director, along with his company Amblin Entertainment, are teaming with Warner Bros.to produce action-adventure “Blackhawk”. This puts Spielberg $3 billion ahead of the next all-time earning director: Peter Jackson, who has a total worldwide gross of $6,520.7 billion. For years, I wondered what a Spielberg Superman movie would look like, or how flawless his sensibilities would be for a property like Shazam. During its heyday, Blackhawk was more popular than Superman.

Steven Spielberg has signed on to produce (and possibly direct) a Warner Bros. movie based on DC’s Blackhawk.

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By voting, you agree to receive email communication from Bounding Into Comics. The story is drawn from a comic first published by Quality Comics in 1941, and later published by DC Comics. Box office isn’t everything, of course, but Spielberg is the filmmaker who practically invented the blockbuster with Jaws. Studios to make the film. Wonder Woman was, up to this point, the only film in the series which bothered to show its past properly, and talk of previous costumed heroes has been practically non-existent.

“Blackhawk” will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros.

Basically, if you’re a Marvel fan, you’re looking at a cross between the Howling Commandos and Biggles, which should get proper world war story aficionados very excited indeed. Spielberg has earlier handled a similar theme in his film Saving Private Ryan. The characters remain staples of DC Comics to this day. The group usually contains seven members and operate out of Blackhawk Island. It centers around a group of WWII era ace fighter pilots fighting Nazis. Operating on Blackhawk Island, the squad flew Grumman XF5F Skyrocket planes to fight tyranny. In the beginning of their comic book run in the 1940s the Squadron would predominantly face down the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Sooner or later, they all go super. In the recent Dark Nights: Metal comics event, the Blackhawks were tied into modern-day continuity and the Hawkman mythos. Then there’s Batgirl, Matt Reeves’ The Batman, Black Adam, Justice League Dark, The New Gods (with Ava DuVernay), Deadshot, Deathstroke, Nightwing, Lobo, and sequels for Man of Steel, Justice League, and Suicide Squad.