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Ready for a JLA Live Action Movie?

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drice6900

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WARNER BROS STARTS JUSTICE LEAGUE FILM PROJECT

 

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Holy cow, Batman.

 

As comic book movies have proliferated over the past few years, comic fans have begun to wonder – when will we start seeing the team-based films? As Marvel’s X-Men films have shown, putting more than one super-powered character into a film can work…but what about the icons joining up?

 

Possibly sooner than expected.

 

According to Variety Warner Bros. is looking to produce a Justice League movie, and has hired Kiernan and Michele Mulroney to pen the -script. After rumors of a possible Batman vs. Superman film this is the first actual news that the studio is looking to make a feature based on more than one hero.

 

As the trade reported/speculated, such a film would certainly include some blend of DC Comics’ iconic heroes, rather than wholly B-listers.

 

"The Justice League of America has been a perennial favorite for generations of fans, and we believe their appeal to film audiences will be as strong and diverse as the characters themselves," Warner President of production Jeff Robinov said in announcing the hiring of the Mulroneys.

 

As Variety mentioned, and fans will surely begin to discuss, such a film has many complicating issues inherent, such as cast – will Warner Bros, if they include Superman and Batman in the mix, cast Brandon Routh and Christian Bale – their current Superman and Batman, or will they re-cast the roles for this project (as each approach would come with budgetary considerations)? Will the film version of the Justice League be connected to the heroes’ solo films? Where does the film take place in the heroes’ lives, and the team's timeline? How will a Justice League film coordinate among all of the production teams working on the various individual properties?

 

While the Justice League has starred in a handful of their own animated television series over the years, the idea has been tested out in a live action manner, in Warners’ Smallville, which has featured a growing list of other young heroes (Green Arrow, Cyborg, Flash, Aquaman, along with a young Superman) in guest appearances, which culminated in the episode entitled “Justice.”

 

If the potential problems can be hammered out, the inclusion of a Justice League film franchise would add a major player to Warner Bros. superhero film slate, which already has a Batman sequel set for a 2008 release, and a Superman sequel for 2009, with Wonder Woman trying to get off the starting blocks.

 

And of course, the Justice League may not be the only team in town – Marvel has previously announced their intent to produce a film based on it’s premiere super-team, The Avengers. Although, Marvel has said it would like to see an Avengers film occur after Iron Man, Thor and Captain America have their own individual film franchises launched.

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Justice League is the one movie I'd rather see done as 100% CGI. Along the lines of Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, but really push the envelope for groundbreaking photorealism.

Something where full focus is on an epic storyline, great voice casting, faithfull character designs, and Universe sets.

As opposed to which A-list actors show up in a costume.

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rob_allan

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I'm in the other camp. I want to see Routh and Bale along with other actors in the film. (Keep in mind I hated the Superman Returns movie, but I don't fault Routh as he didn't write the dreadful -script.)

 

I'm excited. I hope the movie actually gets made.

 

Second line of thinking-- do you think they'll do it based on Smallville's Justice League since that show is likely coming to an end after next season?

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Well, I hope it's not done along the lines of Smallville. I've actually not watched the show (so feel free to boo me) but the photo of the, uh, 'revamped' characters looked absolutely ridiculous.

 

It could be good if the spoons would get out of the way and let it be good. But with films of this type, there's really too much input from everybody involved, so that when it comes out it's basically a mess.

 

An all-CGI feature would be great. But with all the super-powers going on, even a live-action version would have plenty of CG anyway.

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Second line of thinking-- do you think they'll do it based on Smallville's Justice League since that show is likely coming to an end after next season?

 

This is what I think we're going to get...and I couldn't be happier.

 

Most of the time, Smallville is a fantastic show (one of my favorites, actually).

 

The actors, for the most part, do a great job of bringing the heros to life without costumes. Imagine the payoff for fans and non-fans alike having Smallville end on a cliffhanger with Clark about to don the costume...then continuing in a real, well written movie? Budgets would be smaller if they could get all the cast in there instead of a pack of movie A/B list players.

 

Plus the Smallville Lex would eat Spacey's Lex for breakfast.

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I think a well-done CGI movie may be better. I can't see a live action being made well due to budget. That, and I can only begin to imagine how most Hollywood directors & screenwriters would -censored- it up.

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Jeffro.

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Wow. George Wendt lost a lot of weight to fit into that Atom costume.

 

In all seriousness, if that pic is any indictaion of the final product then DC should just get OUT of the movie business. Marvel has (for the most part) figured it out. DC still hasn't.

 

EDIT - That pic is too stupid to be real. Is that honestly a real pic from the film?

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