A Live-Action JLA Movie?
Word is that one of the early Silver Age superhero team may finally make it to the big screen!
Superman? Batman? The Green Lantern? The Flash? Martian Manhunter? Wonder Woman? All in one movie? WOW!
Our friends at Variety are reporting that Warner Brothers is tackling this ambitious film project, hungry to add a new super-franchise to their stable of movie properties.
Feature film is bound to include some combination of DC’s most iconic superheroes, although the studio wouldn’t confirm which ones they might be. It’s unlikely that the studio and DC Comics, a division of Warner, would opt to feature second-tier characters.
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In taking on the ambitious project, Warner faces several conundrums.
Now that the Batman and Superman film franchises have been revived, does the studio go after Christian Bale (”Batman Begins”) and Brandon Routh (”Superman Returns”) to star in a Justice League pic? Studio is also trying hard to bring Wonder Woman to the bigscreen.
To a large degree, casting will depend upon the story arc for the JLA feature and at what point in the superheroes’ lives the plot takes place.
Warner also must deal with myriad producers working on the Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman franchises.
Sounds like a tough project to me, and it may end up going nowhere. It does need some of the heavy hitters for it to really be JLA, unless they go all second string and make it a comedy. Let’s keep an eye on this one!
Oh, great. Given the direction most of our superhero flicks are going these days, the plot will probably center on a group therapy session. Imagine exciting scenes of Superman sobbing on the Martian Manhunter’s shoulder over a suppressed memory of child abuse. Wonder Woman and Batman will finally come out, and Green Lantern will relive traumatic incidents of — you guessed it — racism! Oh, yeah, and some almost invincible supervillain will try to conquer the world and they’ll stop him.
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You got that right! I’m still reeling from ‘Superman Returns.’ In 1978 we were told ‘You will believe a man can fly!’ In 2006, the tag line should have been ‘You will believe Superman will cry.’ I still think they wont get to use the A-List heroes, and it will be a comedy with the B-Listers having to save the captured A-Listers from some almost invincible supervillain will try to conquer the world!
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