Well ladies and gentlemen, if you have not yet abandoned all hope for the upcoming Justice League movie – consider doing so now. It appears they may change the name of the film to American Heroes! We get word of this bastardization thanks to the glorious WEBMASTER at filmjunk:
Word on the street is that they’ve been mulling over a possible title change for the upcoming Justice League movie, and while I agree that the phrase “Justice League” may seem a bit dated and corny for modern audiences, it’s hard to imagine it being called anything else. Foolishly I had assumed that the motivation behind a new name had something to do with removing the patriotic connotations. Imagine my surprise when I heard that the new title may actually end up being American Heroes!
At the moment, this is still unconfirmed (along with just about everything else we supposedly know about the flick), but the scoop is said to have come from an interview with Christian Bale on Australian radio where he said he has “nothing to do with American Heroes, and their Batman will be different to our Batman”.
Why would you want to do a film adaptation of a comic book and then not incorporate the name? Either they are going so far from the source material that they cannot ethically use the name; or they are seriously damaged in their collective frontal lobe and actually think that this is a better title. This title should have been used for the Justice League’s spoof movie, but instead they would prefer to parody the heroes themselves by making the shittiest decisions possible.
Stop the presses, call the sandwich truck guy and tell him to stop coming around, tell Armie Hammer that he can still be Batman for Halloween; but please in the name of all that’s right, do not continue any further with this movie. Go back to the drawing board, fire a bunch of people, read some comic books, stop huffing glue, and then return in a few years when you are ready to make a proper Justice League movie. This movie is going to be DC’s Storm Cloud (Galactus).
