Justice League Movie Rumors and Casting info

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From Back Row Chatter via AICN:
Fairly mild spoilers, but it has the basic plot of the movie (taken from a somewhat recent JLA storyline). Also, see who (character wise) is in the cast.
The spoiler report wraps up with the author saying there is a big “Empire Strikes Back” moment that is a huge spoiler that he knows but doesn’t want to tell. Lets speculate on what that is.

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[details=Spoiler]I know that you want to know. Make the jump and I promise to share the goodies with you but be warned that there be spoilers ahead!

Heres what Ive been told about the JLA movie:

– The characters of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash and Martian Manhunter comprise the League. One name that I did not hear mentioned was that of Aquaman. Whered the fish guy go? Good question.

– Story elements from the screenplay have been adapted directly from DCs JLA comic book series.

– The man wearing the Green Lantern ring in the JLA film is John Stewart and not Hal Jordan (Earths first Green Lantern) or Kyle Rayner (who followed after Stewarts run in the comic book continuity.) It should be noted that in the Justice League cartoon series John Stewart is the same character serving as Earths Green Lantern.

– The Flash is the youngest member of the JLA. He has a crush on Wonder Woman.

– Wonder Woman is portrayed as the member that acts as defacto humanitarian and face for the League. Our source told us that the best way to describe how she is written in the script is to think of Angelina Jolie and her relations with foreign countries.

– Unbeknownst to the League Batman has a piece of technology that he developed called the Redeye, a cool piece of hardware that he can use to spy unbeknownst on the other League members. Want to know what the secret identity of Superman is? Not a problem. Want to find out what can cripple or kill each League member, their Achilles heel? Its a snap with the Redeye. Batman files away the knowledge in case the day might ever come when he will need to use it to take down a member of the JLA that goes rogue or becomes a villain.

– The Redeye is a fulcrum to the events that transpire in the movie. A villainand Im not at liberty to say which specific one or oneswill gain control of the Redeye. Instead of serving as a means of protecting the planets populace from the threat of a superhuman out of control, this creation of Batmans will come back to haunt him, threaten the lives of the League and the safety of everyone on the entire planet.

– During the course of the movie the day that Batman feared would come happens: a member of the League will, and we directly quote our source here, go bad.

It should also be said at this point that there is at least one major twist in the story that Im not going to blow because I deem it an Empire spoiler. For those out there that dont get my reference, imagine its 1979, the internet exists and youre reading rumors about the new Star Wars sequel called The Empire Strikes Back. Theres some new guy called Lando, theres a big battle on a snow planet, Luke meets up with another Jedi and Darth Vader says something to Luke near the end of the picture. Sure, those are all spoilers but if I came out and said what Vader told Luke? Thats an Empire. Whats in the box that Brad Pitt holds in the final ten minutes of Seven is an Empire. Kevin Spaceys change of footwork at the end of The Usual Suspects is another Empire. Got it? Good. [/details]

New info. More small spoilers… more casting info.

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my initial thought is sounds like complete made up bullshit

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Uh yeah this is fake, as the guy who plays Angel is signed up as Green Lantern and it was confirmed as Hal at Comic Con. So yeah this is bullshit.

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Well it sounds a little like “Tower of Babel” which I liked but I have no hopes for this film. There is just no way they will be able to do the leage justice (no pun intended) live action. There are too many nuances to characters and such. Just think about Bats. There is a character that is easy to butcher (see Forever and Batman and Robin) Have they said who is going to play each character yet?

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A few weeks ago, I heard a rumor that the JLA movie is going to take elements of OMAC Project. This sounds pretty similar. This sounds pretty lame.

But that thing about Wonder Woman and “just imagine Angelina Jolie’s relationships with foreign countries” made me laugh long and hard.

Are_you_okay?, I think you’re thinking about the JLA: The New Frontier animated movie adaptation of COOKE’s story. That is going to be awesome.

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Yeah, as Zeph said, the Angel guy is the voice actor for Hal in The New Frontier animated DVD, not for this.

So you’re bullshit.

Just kidding.

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I suppose so, I figured there would be only one JLA movie, not two. I look forward to New Frontier regardless.

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Lies. Here’s the real story:

JL plot details

[details=Spoiler]The Pentagon breaks the news to League members that there is an international emergency. The NSA refuses to divulge the exact nature of the threat via radio, but requests that all seven founding members assemble at once.

Wonder Woman arrives in her Invisible Jet, while Batman arrives in the Batmobile. They find, however, that the Pentagon’s parking lot is not equipped with a hangar for the Jet, nor a double-wide parking space for the Batmobile. Both heroes must search endlessly for a series of adjacent empty spaces in which to park their oversized vehicles.

Meanwhile, Superman has his hands full with the nefarious Meta-man, a 15 year old skateboard enthusiast who found a piece of kryptonite at the bottom of his parents’ swimming pool in Billings, Montana. The battle turns in Meta-man’s favor when the kryptonite-stricken Superman stumbles into the pool, which is filled with three inches of water. He struggles to avoid drowning.

Meanwhile, Martian Manhunter has a headache, which happens every time Dancing With The Stars comes on television. He stays home and tries to shut out the waves of pure stupidity radiating from the minds of Americans across the country.

Meanwhile, the Weather Wizard has stymied the Flash with his deadliest plan yet: shitloads of flypaper. The Scarlet Speedster struggles to break free. Fortunately, Green Lantern arrives on the scene to assist him. Unfortunately, the glue on the flypaper is yellow, and Weather Wizard is wearing his favorite yellow raincoat. GL ponders his list of options, which is perilously short.

Meanwhile, Aqua Man remains unsympathetic to the plight of his land-dwelling compadres, since he is a curmudgeon who periodically refuses to help anybody for no fucking reason at all.

Meanwhile, Wonder Woman and Batman still vainly search for parking. The story ends when the Tumbler runs out of gas, with Wonder Woman stuck in a holding pattern that looks, for all the world, like a half-naked woman scooting around in circles on her butt. In mid-air.[/details]

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If I was ever a movie director, I would buy this script from you immediatly.

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Uh…yeah you were beat by two people, thanks for playing. I’m sure the animated one will be better than this, JLA live action means a lot of cast members which means not a lot of actual celebrities.

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well i heard a few rumors saying they were gonna try and get christian bale for bats again but who knows. anyways im not an avid GL reader why is he weak to the color yellow?

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This looks to be like pure ass. Count me out for this movie.

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Depending on who’s writing, they play it down nowadays. But classically, the power ring of a Green Lantern is ineffective against yellow objects. The Guardians Of The Universe constructed the rings with “necessary impurities” that make them weak to the yellow portion of the visible spectrum–which is why, for example, Sinestro can cause so much trouble with his yellow power ring.

Yeah, I know, it’s basically a plot device to keep the Green Lanterns from being too powerful. It’s comics; don’t think too hard about it.

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I like the idea that it was Parallax and the inherit fear in a GL kept them from doing anything to the color yellow. It’s also the main plot behind the whole Sinestro Corps arc and stuff.

I had no idea SBP was back, he better wreck some mofo’s up.

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Rumor floating around that Jessica Biel’s been approached to play Wonder Woman.

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=130630

Well it’s better than the rumor that she will play Chun-Li in the new Street Fighter movie but not by much lol! Personally I think she would make a great Starfire if they ever do a Teen Titans movie.

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Yeah, pretty much what goody said. Back in the Golden Age and Silver Age (say, '40s to '60s) writers used to give their characters weaknesses for some reason. The Golden Age Green Lantern (the one with the red shirt and green cape) had a weakness to wood, Superman had Kryptonite, Wonder Woman got weak if someone tied her up, Martian Manhunter was vulnerable to fire…

I think the reason the Silver Age Green Lantern was weak against yellow was because yellow is the color of Asians. And back then, people were scared that Asians would take over world governments or annihilate the planet and cause a nuclear holocaust. Call it the Conqueror Ming mentality.

Recently, politically correct bigwigs decided to do away with the weakness to yellow because, supposedly, Asian peoples are not as terrible as once thought.

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Sounds like a better idea than the one ChairHome said leaked.

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ok well all of those makes sense so now i know a little bit more to the knowledge that i really didnt care much about to start with. thnx yo if i could i would rep yall.

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No, it’s not.

Also, GL in the film will be John Stewart afterall. Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. has recently read for the role.(same link) You can see his acting skills in American Gangster with Denzel Washington.

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I didnt see this thread, crap…anyways John isnt in the film from what ive heard. There doing the original members so its very likly we will be seeing the real"Green Lanter"and not some e-list srcub. Even if he is in here at least that annoying hawkgirl is out.