Justice League: Mortal will always be one of the most intriguing unrealized film projects for me- -maybe even up there with Jodorowsky’s Dune. You know, the one that had Common as Green Lantern, Armie Hammer as Batman and Adam Brody as the Flash, et al? The cast was set, they were a few days away from shooting, and then the project fell victim to the writers' strike. Despite all that, I've figured a Justice League movie was inevitability. Even if you discount the comics, the cartoons have garnered enough awareness in the elusive “casual crowd” that you’d figure there’d be enough of a built-in audience for a big ol' feature.
Sure enough, Warner Bros. movie exec. Jeff Robinov let it slip in a feature with the LA Times that a Justice League movie is, indeed, on the docket. Apparently, there are already plans for a new Batman movie, as well, pending a discussion with Nolan (who'll probably produce.) The question now seems to concern how the Leaguers will be depicted, exactly, in the flick. My sense is that they’ll just go ahead with young actors working in their own separate universe rather than trying to fix a latticework together like Marvel's doing.
Commentators might wonder if mass audiences will find it too confusing to reconcile two Batmen or two Supermen, but the trick’s worked pretty well in the comics for a long time. You’ve got Batman taking on child molesters in one story, and then polar-kidnapping dudes with freeze rays in another. What's so hard to get?
Well actually I wouldn't mind having another Christopher Nolan Batman movie.
EDIT: I read that the big wigs at WB want the movie to be out in 2013! That means there will be no other set-up movies, so we're save that drudgery at least. Still, I'll believe it when I see it.
So it might be pretty weird for the majority of people to get behind a different actor playing the same part while another actor plays the same part at the same time. I mean, there were years between Keaton and Kilmer as Batman, and even then his movie ostensibly took place in a completely different universe.
Hell, I think that this is the entire reason that WB hasn't released the original, excellent Adam West Batman TV show on DVD. They don't want people to be confused by two totally different portrayals of Batman!
nolan said he had absolutely no intention of making a sequel to the dark knight rises.
i think this justice league movie will not have the bruce wayne/batman from the nolan continuity, but it could very likely have the new zack snyder superman.
Also, I find it funny that the spell check in my browser accepts Batmen as a word, but not Batmans.
Batman 4 I'll be cautiously optimistic about, still need to see how The Dark Knight Rises is.
2 separate Batmen in their own universes wouldn't annoy people that much nowadays. You can perfectly watch the first movie with Michael Keaton at your home, go to see the new one with Bale and read news about a new unrelated one and be prepared for it wihtout confusion. Give the audience a little credit here.
This!!!
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