There have been whispers and mumblings for months now about the possibility of a “Justice League” movie. For those of you who may not know, the Justice League is the team of basically all the most popular DC Super Heroes including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aqua Man, Green Lantern… ect. ect. ect.
Variety Magazine offered up this:
One of the more ambitious projects around town — the bigscreen adaptation of DC Comics’ “Justice League” — cleared a major hurdle last week.
Husband-wife writing duo Kieran Mulroney and Michele Mulroney turned in a first draft that had Warner Bros. suits actually smiling — no small feat, considering “Justice” follows a half-dozen of the best-known superheroes working together, including Batman and Superman.
But the accomplish-ment raises a tricky question for Warners: Should it release “Justice” before its “Superman Returns” sequel?
You know, as cool as this idea may seem on the surface… stop and really think about it for a moment. Does anyone REALLY think this is going to happen? How on earth do you do a Justice League film at this juncture? You think Christian Bale would agree to be in it? You think you could REALLY give enough screen time to Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern… yadda yadda yadda? You think you could actually get the cast together?
No, this isn’t going to happen. It would cost FAR too much… WB won’t risk damaging the money printing franchise they’ve got in Batman right now, Superman Returns made almost $400 million world wide and the last time I checked, the amount of real authentic interest in seeing Wonder Woman on screen was pretty low. So where on earth would they go with this?
I think it’s wise of WB to have some scripts written just to experiment with the idea… but at the end of the day I just don’t see this happening. Your thoughts?
