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Film School Rejects: George Miller Continues to Hold Out Hope for ‘JLA’

  • Debbie · 1 year ago
    Ya, until The Americans kill this dumb ugly eurobitch like they always do. Like they couldn't
    get someone more appropriate for the role. More dumb junk from the dead entertainment
    industry that no one but fraud marketers watches anymore. :(
  • entertainmenttodayandbeyond · 1 year ago
    While many knock the idea of this project I have faith that director George Miller will produce something very respectable. Remember this guy is no hack. ANY one that can create MAD MAX is a guy who demands respect. Lets see how this plays out! Until then I have faith in GEORGE MILLER!
  • white slave jew · 1 year ago
    There is no way this movie would be good. Probably would turn out like a fantastic four..... complete trash
  • tony · 1 year ago
    Until JLA gets a better cast, I won't be excited.
  • The Great One · 1 year ago
    You what the smart thing for WB to do would be? Boot up the movie franchises of all the main JLA players (Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Superman & Martian Manhunter), blow us away with their awesomeness and then make a JLA movie. And when I talk about the Superman franchise, I mean reboot it completely and make Lex Luthor a corrupt business man instead of a career cirminal with an obsession for real estate.

    Marvel is doing it the smart way, giving a proper movie treatment for Captain America, introducing the mainstream audiences to lesser known Marvel characters like Iron Man, Ant Man and their version of Thor before doing an Avengers movie. That way, fans of the individual movies will go see the Avenger movies. Plus they can introduce some of the female Anvengers in the ensemble movie.

    WB has never had it together when it came to properly utilizing the DC Universe in theatrical form and it is truly sad. I say ditch this stupid JLA movie, cast Megan Gale as Wonder Woman and focus on getting that character the proper movie treatment before any ensemble comic movies do lasting damage to DC characters that non-comic fans have no clue about.
  • Cole Abaius · 1 year ago
    That Wonder Woman idea is exactly what fans have been saying for the past year and a half and what the studio hasn't been listening to for just as long.

    The Justice League thing has been a Charlie Foxtrot from the beginning, especially considering the story concept they were towing around - the worst part being the absence of Batman and Superman from the team.

    But...doing a Marvel-style revamp has got to be a bit of a blow to their egos. It's working well for Marvel, but whether WB/DC should follow suit is still pretty questionable to me. The first step is for WB to stop looking at DC properties as cartoonish, comic book movies and begin seeing them as dramas that happen to involve extraordinary people with extraordinary backgrounds.

    Perhaps TDK will help them see the light of that. Or maybe the best idea is to ditch origin stories altogether. It's easy to create a character that doesn't have an origin - movies do it all the time - why filmmakers insist on it for comic book films is beyond me. A little air of mystery is never a bad thing. Especially if your origin is so fantastical that you have no choice but to make the rest of the story so utterly cheesy that it tanks.

    Give us a real person inside the suit, and we'll keep paying the box office.
  • Alericc · 1 year ago
    The main hurdle I see is that Chritian Bale is not going to be a supporting actor to a movie that gives him maybe 30 minutes tops when he can be producing other features. So that leaves the spot of Batman open to either another actor or not part of the film at all.
  • Adam Sweeney · 1 year ago
    They should make a sequel to Catwoman. That worked pretty well, right?
  • meh · 1 year ago
    Having Bale's Batman show up in JL will look so retarded. It is the complete opposite of what Nolan is working for. But who else are you going to put in the role without completely pissing everybody off? Miller is an decent director, but his cast is completely f'd up.

    WB should also turn the Wonder Woman movie over to the Wachowskis.
  • Lyon · 1 year ago
    I actually really like the idea of Megan Gale as Wonder Woman. WW is supposed to be unnaturally tall woman. Shes also not a kid, being 30 something she would mix well with Christan Bale, and other A listers of the near the same age.

    Being:
    Superman - Brandon Routh: Same suit, different attitude... not so quite
    Batman - Christian Bale: Shouldn't put on tites until the second installment
    Wonder Woman - Megan Gale: a foreigner would really help wiith the idea that shes not from here and she's tall/ minus the stupid "stars" costume
    Flash - (Ryan Reynolds maybe): I can't think of anyone else
    Green Lantern - Taye Diggs: A dramatic not overly popular actor, but good enough to have presents
    Martian Manhunter - Hank Azaria: A versatile voice actor, and a forehead! important
    Hawk (Girl) - Jessica Biel: I could dream about her in wings

    Cat woman was a bad idea, she was a customized character for Halle Berry, which is why the movie has to stand alone. But she should have be Vixen... a slightly lesser known JLA member.

    Oh, and FF Rocked! and Will Rock!! FOREVER!!!
  • jay haris · 1 year ago
    the problem is this
    Marvel is a comic book company so they get their business handled

    DC used to be a comic book company now it is just a small part of some sort of entertainment machine with other priorities.

    If DC wants to compete on the big screen they need their autonomy again. it's not likely to happen so I am betting that eventually DC gets replaced as the other comic super-power by someone like topcow or image et.al.
  • Frodo T. Baggins · 1 year ago
    Eh. Lyon. You Got The Cast Way Wrong. Plus Ryan Reynolds Is Deadpool Ya Dogfart
    Superman: Brandon Routh (same costume)
    Batman: Some Other 35er & Up. (cant fuck up Batman)
    Wonder Woman: Megan Gale (I guess?)
    Green Lantern: Common (hes the best I can think of or heard)
    Flash: That weiner from the OC/Thank You For Smoking, the Assistant to Rob Lowe (even
    make a good Peter Parker. And I know he wants that. Hed be great.
    Martian Manhunter?: Actually Hank Azaria isnt that bad...Plus hes fucking JACKED. It
    really could be anyone.
    Hawk?: Um last I heard not even being casted. This has been going on for over a year.
    READ MORE...Ryan Reynolds......come on now
  • aurora · 5 months ago
    Hawkgirl: Jessica Biel
    Wonder Woman: Megan Fox
  • debi · 5 months ago
    Jessica Biel Hawkgirl
  • andries price · 2 months ago
    i will see justice league movie i will see brandon routh as superman christain bale as batman megan gale as wonder woman ryan reynolds as hal jorden / green lantern jamie bell as wolly west/ the flash terrence howard as black lighting wwe star kane as martain the manhunter zuley henao as hawkgirl i will see them on justice league mortal in theatres 2011 see ya