"If the latest rumor is to be believed, all that dourness is not just the natural by-product of hiring Zack Snyder to rub more charcoal tears into shattered collarbones. According to HitFix’s Drew McWeeny, Warner Bros.’ dedication to keeping the “comic” out of its comic-book movies extends to a blanket edict, applied to all the DC films it has in development: “No jokes.” After all, what’s so funny about adults hopping around the city in capes and rubber tights, arguing about whose childhood was worse? To the dozens of sufferers of superpowers, nothing. Nothing at all."
The DC movies are really, really going to suck.
http://www.avclub.com/article/warner-bros-reportedly-doesnt-want-any-funny-stuff-208597
"If the latest rumor is to be believed, all that dourness is not just the natural by-product of hiring Zack Snyder to rub more charcoal tears into shattered collarbones. According to HitFix’s Drew McWeeny, Warner Bros.’ dedication to keeping the “comic” out of its comic-book movies extends to a blanket edict, applied to all the DC films it has in development: “No jokes.” After all, what’s so funny about adults hopping around the city in capes and rubber tights, arguing about whose childhood was worse? To the dozens of sufferers of superpowers, nothing. Nothing at all."