|
|
Post by politicidal on Aug 31, 2017 17:51:30 GMT
from Jay Baruchel who was originally cast as villain Maxwell Lord (seriously).
TEXT:
Despite Justice League Mortal never seeing the light of day, the film made quite a bit of progress before it was canceled, including bringing together a promising cast (including D.J. Cotrona as Superman, Armie Hammer as Batman and Jay Baruchel as villain Maxwell Lord) and a proposed budget of nearly $300 million. While it was previously known that Justice League Mortal would have seen Superman being psychically forced by Lord to fight his Justice League friends, new information suggests that the brunt of that fighting would have been with Wonder Woman herself.
While speaking with Happy Sad Confused (via Comic Book), Baruchel opened up on what Justice League Mortal would have had in store for fans, including the Wonder Woman V Superman fight, with Lord controlling the latter. Explaining how this would have worked in the film, Baruchel revealed:
“There’s a scene where Maxwell Lord brainwashes Clark and all of a sudden this guy’s got Superman as a weapon. But in order for me to do this – to get in to a Kryptonian brain – I start bleeding out of every f*cking orifice because it takes that much to get into the head of a Kryptonian. And then I turn him into Red-Eye Superman, and there’s this big a** fight between him and Wonder Woman where he breaks her wrists.”
After the divisive response to Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice last year, it’s easy to wonder how much more well received Miller’s fight between friends in Justice League Mortal would have been. With Miller’s critically acclaimed Mad Max: Fury Road not all that far behind us, it’s also easy to imagine the type of Justice League film the director would be up to making today – if it all.
Either way, more plot details for the canceled Justice League Mortal continue to trickle out even 10 years after it was announced and this will surely get more DC fans nostalgic for Miller’s shelved superhero film. Perhaps one day DC will turn the unproduced script into an animated film or even give Miller his shot on another DC project, but neither seem very likely right now. At present, fans will have to use their imagination to envision one of the biggest “what if” scenarios in recent film history with Justice League Mortal.
screenrant.com/justice-league-mortal-movie-wonder-woman-superman-fight/
|
|
|
|
Post by Hauntedknight87 on Aug 31, 2017 20:31:45 GMT
Kinda wish it was made.
|
|
|
|
Post by politicidal on Sept 3, 2017 23:49:27 GMT
This is what Miller has to say about the cancellation: There was a writers strike. There was some legislation with a tax rebate to make it in Australia. It was the first film that came up, and there was a debate about whether it was Australian content even though I was driving it. It didn’t have to be Australian content, but Australian control. But there was a board that no longer exists that the government cobbled together from people who knew nothing about the film industry. And they voted -- they struck it down by one vote. We were all ready. Once that happened and then the writers’ strike happened…it fell apart." www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/justice-league/246346/justice-league-mortal-the-dc-superhero-movie-you-never-sawApparently the props and costumes were all set and ready to go when this happened. It sounds like it'd still suffer from that mid-aughties weirdness that a lot of superhero films from that first boon had;Jay Baruchel as Maxwell Lord, really? But yea, it seems there still would have been some good stuff. |
|
|
|
Post by thisguy4000 on Sept 4, 2017 1:55:30 GMT
This is what Miller has to say about the cancellation: There was a writers strike. There was some legislation with a tax rebate to make it in Australia. It was the first film that came up, and there was a debate about whether it was Australian content even though I was driving it. It didn’t have to be Australian content, but Australian control. But there was a board that no longer exists that the government cobbled together from people who knew nothing about the film industry. And they voted -- they struck it down by one vote. We were all ready. Once that happened and then the writers’ strike happened…it fell apart." www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/justice-league/246346/justice-league-mortal-the-dc-superhero-movie-you-never-sawApparently the props and costumes were all set and ready to go when this happened. It sounds like it'd still suffer from that mid-aughties weirdness that a lot of superhero films from that first boon had;Jay Baruchel as Maxwell Lord, really? But yea, it seems there still would have been some good stuff. If the movie did happen, it would've been released just 1 year after TDK. While the film as a whole seems like it very well could've ended up being a mess, it certainly would've been interesting to see all the debates people would inevitably have had about who's the better Batman; Christian Bale or Armie Hammer. It also would've been interesting to see what effect the film would've had on the MCU, particularly with The Avengers. |
|
