The Justice League movie is one that I instantly got excited about then I heard they were making it. But from day one I’ve heard bad decision after bad decision after bad decision to the point now that I have little to no expectations from this project other than total disaster (casting kids, wrong director, wrong timing, wrong purpose).
But now the folks over at movieweb are reporting on a script review that sort of bring all your fears to striking reality. Justice League will be more of a kids movies. Here’s what they have to say:
“…the movie is going for a tone similar to that of The Rocketeer or Sky High.”
“The reviewer describes the script as “light and fluffy cartoon adventure stuff.” It sounds like the filmmakers are doing everything they can to distance themselves from any existing Superman or Batman television or film project. This isn’t going to be a movie for adults, but more of a live-action version of the Saturday morning cartoons.”
Oh good. So instead of going the successful route of Batman, X-Men, Superman ect… .they instead want to go in the direction of Fantastic Four. Nice.
To be honest, none of this is surprising in the least to anyone really. I think most of us realized when they announced neither Bale or Routh would be in the film for he respective roles that what WB was going to give to us was a dumbed down kids cartoon movie. This just sort of confirms that more.
However, scripts can be funny thing. Each reader can see things in a diferent tone. A few strategic changes can alter the entire feel of it… and so let’s not take the word of one review too seriously. But you can’t just discount it either. Too bad. This movie could have been so good if done right… seems WB have chosen a different direction.
