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Robert Sanchez of IESB answers fan questions.
[details=Spoiler]I am going to answer a few questions that have been sent to me via email or by the IESB mail system or posted on these boards.
Do I have a cast list?
No
Is there a cast list?
Not an official list
Do I have an un-official list?
Partial
Can I talk about?
No, not yet
Why?
Because I can lose friendships over it.
Do I have the final script?
Very close to it, Mr. E tells me that to expect a complete script review very, very soon.
Will IESB post the script review?
Don?t know, we have been warned by WB not to review The Dark Knight or any of their films that are in production. The script reviews that we do on WB properties have not been officially green lit as been the case with the Clash of the Titans script review a few months back.
If there is no publicist attached to JLA by the time Mr. E delivers a script review we are good to go. If a publicist has been assigned we are screwed and risk getting blacklisted by the studio if we post such review.
Is Teresa Palmer Wonder Woman?
I was told as of 5 days ago that MEW was the leading contender but things do change.
Is Brandon Routh part of JLA?
Nope, he told me during the Scream Awards that he was never approached plus he also told me that the other comic book project, Dylan Dog, is not green lit either, just in case you guys care.
Is Chris Nolan pissed off about JLA and not going to do Batman 3?
Not only is Chris Nolan pissed off but also producers Greg Silverman and Charles Roven, they have been pissed for months about the whole Talia / Ra?s Al Ghul/ storyline.
JLA was written with Christian Bale and Brandon Routh in mind but once the Nolan camp made it clear that they wanted nothing to do with an ensemble film at this time WB had no other choice but realize that they were going to have to recast Batman. So their reasoning was if they need to recast Bats then they will also recast Supes.
Like I have said in the past, Jeff Robinov and Dan Lin are not a fans of Superman Returns and there was initial thought that if a Bale/Routh Justice League film was done it would help re-invigorate the Superman Franchise and set up a return of a Bryan Singer directed The Man of Steel.
There was interest from the WB people to use Bryan Singer since he signed his very lucrative deal to direct the sequel. If he gets fired from TMOS, WB will have to pay him a lot of money. If he quits from the TMOS then they don?t have to pay him squat.
Something else to think about, does WB really want to piss off Bryan Singer considering that he has been asked to testify in the Superman/Siegel/WB lawsuit? I think not.
So with Bale/Nolan out and knowing that you were going to use a new Bats in JLA that is where Tom Welling came in, for a better part of the last 4-5 years there has been talks at WB about doing a Smallville film but with Bryan Singer casting Routh for Superman Returns that made the possibility a long shot. But with Justice League on the table the idea came back of getting Tom to play Supes on the big screen.
Is Tom Welling going to play Superman in Justice League in JLA?
Emi has reasons to believe that he is but I do not, something happen, not sure what but someone/something threw a wrench in the process of getting Welling in JLA.
Does that answer most of it?[/details]
In other words, whatever happens, we can rule out a third Nolan/Bale Batman. Justice League had better shit fucking gold into our laps, because it definitely ruined the promising new Bat-franchise that was so long in coming.
EDIT:
Okay, upon closer examination, it appears that Nolan and Bale are obligated by contract to do a third Batman. This doesn’t necessarily mean everything is gold shit and rainbows again, since we all saw what happens when a director has lost interest in the material when Spider-Man 3 came out.