It worked for Batman but Is Superman British now too?

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Weird casting if true, JL looks like a car crash waiting to happen. They might as well cast Routh in both.

Comment by Chris | October 24, 2007

We can only hope he’ll be the Flash. Hell, I’d rather have Routh, the metrosexual than girly-man Evans.

This is the problem with having a non-American as director, since the director is the main one repsonsible for casting. He’s looking to go for what he considers the most pleasing casting from his POV.

Yes, I know, Christian Bale is Welsh (he says only half-Welsh, but his accent says FULL Welsh to me!) and he’s Batman, a decision I still hate, but there’s a world of difference between a great talent like Nolan (he wrote and directed Momento, one of the best films I’d seen in years) and a -let’s be honest- has-been like Miller whose claim to fame if a couple of Mel Gibson genre vehicles during the 80’s.

If you don’t het the casting RIGHT for this flick than nothing else matters, and it’s obvious Miller doesn’t get it –he’s been out of the game too long- and nobody at Warner’s seems to want to stop it. This flick has begun the slow process of derailing. And all we can do is watch…

Comment by JaySmack | October 24, 2007

Everytime JLA news is posted, imagine me going “you’ve gotta be kidding me.”

Irony: WB, Miller, and the casting agents seek a ‘young African American that can attract the urban demographic’ and wind up taking a look at T.I., who happens to be facing jail time. Someone needs to tell them that the urban movie-going demographic isn’t in prison.

Now, we got Opie from Hellboy as a candidate for Superman? Why not just wait on this one? Let the strikes happen, let the dust settle. Get a better script, a better director, and take another shot at this casting. I’d much rather that than WB throwing something together for the sake of doing it now.

Comment by Dirtylungs | October 24, 2007

If he is set to play superman then it is an awful choice, but nothing has been set in stone, so until I hear official announcements im not writing this movie off yet.

Comment by Tino | October 24, 2007

This is the best new Brandon Routh and Bryan Singer have gotten all year. No threat to their franchise here.

What a freakin’ disaster.

Comment by Scramble Network | October 24, 2007

“This is the best new Brandon Routh and Bryan Singer have gotten all year. No threat to their franchise here.”

LOL! Ok, I admit it, Scrambles made me laugh on that one –and agree! Nolan and Singer can make their movies with NO fears that this flick will do anything intelligent or step on their toes, as Bale put it.
JLA seems destined to be a one-and-done entry in the superhero genre.

Comment by JaySmack | October 25, 2007

Dirtylungs:
I agree with you completely that WB’s thinking on the Green Lantern role is not just stupid, but insulting.

I’ve already said that DB Woodside would do good as Green Lantern, and since Viva McLaughlin just got cancelled (after it’s first episode!) he has a lot of free time on his hands.
And David Harewood (the villain from Blood Diamond) would make an AWESOME Green Lantern. He’s the kind of guy you can build a franchise around. But alas, it seems common-sense is a trait the folks behind this train-wreck don’t have.

And Tino, I know where you’re coming from. Until recently I would have chimed in with you, (God knows Scrambles and I have have duked it out innumerable times over THIS very film!) but we are MONTHS! into the process of putting this flick together, and they still don’t know who their principals are going to be. Usually that’s the FIRST thing the studio annouces. All of here love movies, so we’ve seen how films are put together tons of times -it’s a process we know. How did we follow news on any film? It starts with the announcement of the movie being greenlit, which coincides with the annoucement of whomever is starring.
Nolan told everyone who Joker and Harvey Dent would be from Day One, he didn’t wait months to do it. Because Nolan is organized.
And the fact the producers are fully aware of all the speculation about this film but stil haven’t said anything concrete (we still don’t know who all the villains are supposed to be in this film) it doesn’t matter whose name is “set in stone,” what matters is that their casting choices are just damned f*cking STUPID, and it’s safe to say they have no clue. When the writers have a better choice for Wonder Woman than the director that tells me the guy at the helm is building one hell of a flop.
They could have put together a low-cost, top-notch cast of up-and-comers, (I gave a list in an earlier post) instead we get an old has-been director and a studio looking for marketable headshots instead of stellar talent.
This is why I stopped advocating they be given more time, as I did for months, and now say this project’s in trouble. It doesn’t take ANY movie this long to announce their cast…unless the filmmakers can’t figure out what they want. Which tells me a ton about what going on behind the scenes.
There’s no defending a film which refuses to defend themselves.

Comment by JaySmack | October 25, 2007

I sure hope this information isn’t correct!! JLA should have either Tom Welling or Brandon Routh as Superman. Tom Welling would be a good fit since he covers the role as Clark and hasn’t transitioned to Superman yet. If JLA is about the beginning and how all these characeters meet then Welling would be a good fit. Not to mention all of the Smallville fans will finally get to see him as Superman and fly.

You want to doom this movie then put this Brit in and a bunch of other actors that won’t do their characeters “Justice”……………..

Comment by John | November 4, 2007

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