Superman vs The Elite is presumably an adaptation of the famous Joe Kelly story pitting Superman against analogues for the Wildstorm antihero team The Authority. It came at the height of that group's popularity under Warren Ellis and Mark Millar, and was a response in favour of the traditional values embodied by Superman.
Yes, it'll be out October 18th.
So, it was Superman fighting analogs of analogs of the Justice League?
Do you think that they will actually use Wildstorm characters now that they are being assimilated by nuDC?
Absolutely not. The point of using analogues (beyond copyright issues, which wouldn't be in play here) is not to overtly disrespect other people's characters.
While I am definitely going to be checking these out, I am disappointed they aren't moving beyond the heroes they've already done. I know they said they were sticking to Superman and Batman, but I was really hoping there would be a chance they would change there minds and do something like Flash or Green Arrow. To me these DCU Animated movies would be the perfect opportunity to test the waters with some of their other heroes. But I guess the failure of Wonder Woman (which I thought was an awesome movie by the way) scared them away from other heroes.
Wonder Woman actually ended up selling very well, but it was much weaker out of the gate than the other titles and WB's retail partners look for titles that'll sell strongly in the first couple of weeks rather than ones that sit on the shelves and eventually rack up good sales over the long haul. I think we may only see titles other than Batman, Superman and JLA when there's a live action feature to slipstream behind.
