It’s bordering nonsensical talking about the Justice League movie at this point because for every claim, counter claim and then counter, counter claim – but the truth is the movie has no cast or firm greenlight, so until we hear otherwise that’s how we will view the official status of the film.
However, IESB have heard a juicy story that’s a little too good not to report on.
They say that Australian director George Miller has been pulled off the now dead Justice League project and the film completely canned because WB were worried about the Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale backlash on their very successful Batman franchise which has made over $1 billion so far from two movies.
They didn’t want to piss them off basically.
But that would seem not to be the end of Miller and WB/DC. The site go on to claim that the studio is looking at Miller as a big potential candidate for the Green Lantern film which looks very likely to be the next original character adapted for screen from their canon, beating The Flash and Wonder Woman to the punch.
They have a script from Greg Berlanti (The Broken Hearts Club, Dawson’s Creek) which they are very fond of and before the years is out, I wouldn’t be surprised if this begins moving forward aggressively. After all, the studio have comic book tentpoles to fill, and Batman 3 and another Superman movie look YEARS away at this point.
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I’d rather have seen him do Wonder Woman with Magan Gale and her tasty baps.
Miller probably isn’t the best guy to be doing any superhero movies. This guy can’t even get casting right.
I think the future of Superman on film with WB is charge also had a hand in JLA not being made at this point.
Lencho, I’m not quite following your point on Superman. As for Miller, I think he is a good director who hacked together a terrible cast on JLA. It seems like a lot of “bigger” names passed on the roles, like Biel, Reynolds, etc. Was it a bad script, low pay, or something else? All the genuine big names seemed tied up in productions from the strike rush. So JLA was scraping the bottom of the barrel. If the cast was Miller’s first choice, then I’d say he’s gone senile and needs to retire, but if circumstances left him with little choice in casting, then all is forgiven. As long as someone else is in charge of casting, I would love to see Miller’s Green Lantern or maybe even JLA.
I was talking about maybe WB isn’t totally sure what they could do with Superman and how much they may owe the Siegels, so once they have a better idea of it, they’ll do JLA and/or a Superman sequel, reboot, or whatever they want to do with him.
Rumors indicated that Biel and Reynolds left because they weren’t guaranteed the solo films. Biel left and Reynolds is now Deadpool, a role which may lead to a solo film.
It could be that he didn’t have many people to choose from. They were also testing how well the chemistry was among the actors. Maybe this is the best they could get. Age is also a factor in all this I guess. Who’s still going to look good when they do sequels or spin-offs, if that really was the plan?
Anyway, I’m sure if there was no strike and they got the Oz rebate, we would be having this film out soon since they were supposed to start shooting in February.
WB may be interested in getting Miller since it would seem a film like this is too huge for Berlanti. And since Miller didn’t get his JLA, they’ll give him GL. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.
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