Here’s the essential problem of making a movie about the Justice League: Wonder Woman and Superman, between the two of them, can pretty much beat anything that moves senseless. Throw in Batman and most of the DCU can just kinda call it a day. So, you need a heavy hitter, and that heavy hitter is… Well, there’s a list of like five guys, so you can probably guess who it is, even if it’s a terrible idea.
Yup, it’s Darkseid.
Really, this was kind of a given, but it’s still a bad idea because of timing. Justice League is being fast-tracked to hit in 2015… the same year Marvel is supposed to drop The Avengers 2. So, we will have two movies about a group of heroes fighting an intergalactic foe with an enormous amount of effects in theaters, possibly within a few months of each other.
Justice League loses here. First of all, your average nerd knows Thanos is a ripoff of Darkseid, but your average filmgoer doesn’t: Justice League will look like the highest-budgeted mockbuster of all time. Secondly, The Avengers 2 will have been essentially plugged by three sequels to popular and well-reviewed movies over three years, plus Guardians of the Galaxy and possibly Ant-Man.
Justice League will be the followup to Man of Steel, which may or may not be a huge hit. Apparently Warner Bros. is waiting to see how Supes does in theaters before pulling the trigger on a team movie.
On the bright side, at least they’re thinking BIG. It’s pretty annoying to go into a theater and find studios writing for the trade, so at least if Justice League comes together, it’ll be an appropriately epic film.
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Why won’t this movie just fucking die?
Because movie studios like money. Seriously, we’re going to probably see at least a couple of “team” movies by 2014. Some producer is probably pitching the Great Lakes Avengers as we speak.
They actually expect this to make money?
@Dan Anna Kendrick as Squirrel Girl or GTFO.
I always kind of imagined Squirrel Girl as Kristen Schaal, to be honest.
Anna Kendrick as Squirrel Girl would make me look at squirrels VERY differently.
Because we’ll all go watch it to complain about how much it sucked…
all I know is he better be fucking voiced or played by Michael Ironside
I’m of the firm belief Michael Ironside IS Darkseid.
Michael Ironseid
I think part of the problem is that the Justice League doesn’t have a huge iconic enemy I can pretty much name Darkseid and Amazo. They could pay homage and do Starro for the throwback crowd or White Martians and basically expand the Justice League cartoon 3 parter to a 2 hour 30 minute movie.
Starro would be hilarious but that’s not the vibe they’re going for.
Starro is much more of a sequel villain with an Invasion of the Body Snatchers style thing going on. Wonder Woman fighting Superman and junk.
I maintain that Starro (renamed) would be the best way to introduce the ENTIRE Universe. Justice League is created when the last 5-6 heroes in the world have to fight the other 500.
Despero or GTFO.
1) Ant-Man comes out in November 2015, after The Avengers 2 comes out.
2) Because The Avengers 2 won’t be doing the exact same thing with Thanos a month earlier.
3) Just kill this project already.
Release dates are fluid, that far out. If they decide to stuff Hank Pym in there, they’ll move it up.
Seeing that there’s four Marvel movies coming out in 2014, there’s not much room to move it up without over-saturating the market before The Avengers 2 comes out. If Captain America does really well in its April release, I guess it’s possible Marvel will move it up to April 2015, but that’s unlikely. It looks like it’s going to be the first film of an Avengers Phase 3, and perhaps the first film to come out of The Avengers 2 if he is stuffed in there.
I, for one, will gladly watch multiple movies about intergalactic space foes with lots of special effects.
So will I. I just see the potential for this to murder any other DC movies in the cradle if it goes wrong.
It’s a natural choice, obviously, but my prediction is that they’ll do Darksied first, then if they can manage to launch a new set of solo movies, set it up so that the second movie would be against the Secret Society (but because it’s more popular in the public eye, they would call them the Legion of Doom).
And just to be clear, as hesitant as I am about this project, I would get my left nut to see a legitimate live action JL vs SS fight.
I… yeah, Warner Bros. could start a huge testicle collection if they really wanted. Really that’s what this movie should BE.
They should be hinting at Brainiac in Man of Steel, have him invade in Justice League, and have Lex Luthor in a Loki type roll, pulling the strings and setting things up. In the end, they both lose, but we see Lex’s iPhone or whatever and it’s he’s got the Legion of Doom set up under Speed Dial. Smash Cut to JUSTICE LEAGUE, roll credits. This movie practically writes itself. Save Darkseid for Man of Steel 2 (or as I hope they call it, Action Comics)
Oh, or Action Films. That’d be pretty silly. That’s the route they’re going, right? Silly?
I’d be fine with that too, I actually really liked the last few episodes of Justice League Unlimited when the original 7 went up against Luthor/Braniac.
That’s always been the drawback with the Justice League is in just trying to challenge them to make it interesting which usually boils down to who can challenge Superman; Doomsday, Brainiac, Mongul take your pic. Also as long as we’re talking about testicles, I’d go see the JL movie if there was a scene of Lobo kicking Superman square in the stones.
They should just go and make the story where someone steals all of Batman’s notes on how to effectively neutralize all the other members. Introduces everyone, shows that they CAN be beaten and how. Then Batman could be on his own for when they reboot his film franchise. Just a thought.
Tower of Babel is what that arc was called.
Let’s just hope they get even ballsier and decide Justice League 2 is Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths. Possibly could be the first intergalactic, comic adaptation, art house film about time travel
I’m probably alone in this, but I want Justice League partially to establish characters for a Death and Return of Superman duology.
Or just take us all to school and do Kingdom Come. Now THERE’S a movie I’d like to see.
I want them to fight Gene Hackman. Not Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, but the man Gene Hackman. He knocks out hobos at 82 years old
Maybe the Wonder Twins and their purple monkey can save this.
WONDER TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE: SHAPE OF A MOVIE THAT CAN MAKE MONEY
::cloud of smoke dissipates revealing a copy of X-Men First Class on blu-ray::
Pretty sure one of them would take “Shape of Gravel-voice Batman!”
Here’s the problem. You know about comics, I know about comics, and lord knows Mancini knows about comics. But casual fans don’t. And casual fans are what make the most money. But casual fans HAVE seen The Avengers, and what is a Justice League movie going to have? A big bad guy launching thousands of Parademons at Metropolis. Sound familiar? And with no lead-in movie, why is this joke from Superfriends who talks to fish so tough? Why is gritty realistic Batman involved with gods? (That’s actually a good question for Morrison). Who the fuck is this green asshole?
This movie will be Green Lantern part two. Make $150 million; break even on budget.