Trades confirm delay and reveal full cast for JLA

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Routh’s wooden acting was Singer’s fault? The director of the Usual Suspects and Apt Pupil and even the X-Men? Singer is an actor’s director. If there is one ounce of talent in an actor, Singer will pull it out. It’s not Singer’s fault if Routh doesn’t have any talent to pull out.

WB needs to get out a Flash movie or Green Lantern or Wonder Woman. It’s time for DC movies to consist of more than just Batman and Superman over and over again. The DC universe is made up of more than just two characters. That’s really frustrating. The JLA cast may have been hilariously ghastly, but at least it was an attempt to show us more than the same two characters again.

Comment by Hellen | January 17, 2008

Routh’s wooden acting was Singer’s fault? The director of the Usual Suspects and Apt Pupil and even the X-Men? Singer is an actor’s director. If there is one ounce of talent in an actor, Singer will pull it out. It’s not Singer’s fault if Routh doesn’t have any talent to pull out.

WB needs to get out a Flash movie or Green Lantern or Wonder Woman. It’s time for DC movies to consist of more than just Batman and Superman over and over again. The DC universe is made up of more than just two characters. That’s really frustrating. The JLA cast may have been hilariously ghastly, but at least the movie was an attempt to show us more than the same two characters again.

Comment by Hellen | January 17, 2008

Hellen,

I like Bryan Singer but when directors take on pet projects, they kind of get lost in it.

It happened to Martin Scorsese with GANGS OF NEW YORK and it happened to Gus Van Sant on PSYCHO.

You get so caught up with the film, THE movie you have wanted to make all your life with the characters that you grew up with that you make mistakes… do things you wouldn’t usually do.

SUPERMAN RETURNS was Singer’s remake of the Richard Donner movies and his desire to see the Donner cut of SUPERMAN 2.

Although the jury is out on Routh, I think he did a fine job. He’s no Christopher Reeve (but then who is) but I loved him in those scenes with Spacey near the end of the movie and I thought he made a great Clark Kent.

I do like Singer and I can’t wait for VALKYRIE but SUPERMAN RETURNS sucked and if you have a 70’s Reeve in the movie.. it still would have sucked!

I agree about a stand-alone FLASH and GREEN LANTERN and it’s my understanding that both movies have tentative plans and scripts to be made over the next two years.

Comment by Matt Holmes | January 17, 2008

If they revive this (and I seriously doubt they will in the near future) then they should do it motion capture. Beowulf really excelled using the 3-D Imax form.

To me that would be a great way to do JLA — it would set it apart from all the other superhero movies out there and not make continuity such an issue.

Zemeckis has said there isn’t a mo-cap film that can’t be made using $1 million for 1 minute of screentime. If WB could make a JLA film for a little over $100 million then they’d be laughing!

Comment by Will Reynolds | January 17, 2008

Jay Baruchel confirms he was in the JLA film but not which character he was playing:

Baruchel stays close to the pack

By KEVIN WILLIAMSON - Sun Media

With super friends like Seth Rogen, Judd Apatow and Ben Stiller, who needs the Justice League?

Still, it’s hard to mistake the disappointment — or enthusiasm — in Jay Baruchel’s voice when he discusses the mega-budgeted comic-book extravaganza that almost was.

“I really, really hope it happens. It was the coolest thing in the world for a nerd like me,” says the 26-year-old Montrealer, best recognized from last year’s Knocked Up, Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby and the Apatow-produced TV series Undeclared. “It was going to be awesome.”

And frankly we’re probably going to have to take his word on that. Baruchel — who won’t reveal what role he’d signed for, although rumours had him pegged as one of the villains — was in Australia last December rehearsing when Warner Bros. unceremoniously banished the production to a purgatorial phantom zone. Among probable reasons why? The toxic buzz the League movie — despite being helmed by The Road Warrior’s legendary George Miller — was generating online. With neither big-screen Batman Christian Bale nor Superman Brandon Routh on-board, fanboys balked at the decision to recast young unknowns as those spandex-clad icons. “Everyone on the Internet was hating our movie,” Baruchel says. “But you know us cast members were psyched that everybody was gunning for us because it would have only meant people would have been blown away that much more. We knew the bulk of the detractors would have been silenced.”

Not that Baruchel isn’t staying busy while he awaits final word on League’s fate.

(Tropic Thunder talk clipped)

http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/B…65051-sun.html

Also, Santiago Cabrera also confirmed he was in the JLA film and that he was playing Aquaman/Arthur Curry.

No word on whether Anton Yelchin was really involved or not. Supposedly he was cast as Kid Flash/Wally West with Adam Brody playing THE Flash/Barry Allen.

Comment by Jack Ryder | July 28, 2008

Sorry ‘D.J.’, but Cotrona is fu@k!ng latino, We already had an Asian-American Superman (Dean Cain, and I would have guessed Hawaiian but IMDb taught me different). And now Will Smith says he was offered Superman? WTF? Superman is white-skinned and blue-eyed. Sorry affirmative action casting agents, but that’s Superman, it’s what he looks like.

Comment by Evan | July 28, 2008

Santiago Cabrera as Aquaman? He’s Spanish, for fu@k’s sakes! What is this, the Justice League or a telenovela?
And that twerp Baruchel is telling us “the naysayers would have been silenced”? Aquaman is a fucking blonde-haired titan from Atlantis, not a teen pinup boy from South America. I’m all for racial harmony, but why subvert these icons just to make your own statement by arbitrarily turning the Hall of Justice into a melting pot of color.

Comment by Evan | July 28, 2008

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