When we almost had a Justice League movie (2007)
Many fans like to pretend it was all a dream and that this never got as close as it did, but back in 2007 we were THIS close to having live action Justice League movie. The film was to be directed by George Miller and due to some unforeseen issues, cameras never got to roll. The 07-08 WGA Strike and changes to Australian tax incentives put a stop to production. Eventually the PTBs decided to concentrate on putting out solo Batman and Superman movies. Check out what the 2007 cast had to say.
BATMAN - Armie Hammer
- Regarding the Bat-suit designed by Peter Jackson's WETA studio:
(speaking to HitFix) "It was pretty badass...Did you see Bat-suit with the carbon fiber and with all the mechanics and springs and pistons on it?!"
- Overall feel: "What we did was...we got down there and George Miller was basically like, 'We're going to push these DC people farther than they are ever going to be comfortable with.' And the DC people showed up and they looked around and they were like 'This is farther than what we're comfortable with, but we love it and you can do whatever you want.' And then it just went even farther. It was great."
- To Australia's The Feed: "If what we were going for would have happened would have been the perfect combination of the realistic grittiness of the Dark Knight series mixed with the amazing detail and, sort of tactile nature of the Star Trek series."
SUPERMAN - DJ Cotrona
"It was a damn shame that we didn’t get to finish that. I promise you that it would have been amazing. It would have been incredible. The scale of this was fantastical. It was a Lord of the Rings scale. It would have been really cool."
- About reading comments from internet trolls:
"I did the Justice League thing the wrong way. I read too much on the internet. You can’t do that. The internet is the devil. Or the internet is not the devil, the comment boards are the devil. Believe me, I’ve been on the opposite side on there, too saying, “You can’t let that guy be that character!” But really [in the case of Justice League] it was Weta, Weta, Weta, Weta, Weta. They are amazing and they can make anybody look like anything." (ScreenRant)
- About George Miller's Superman:
"The version of Superman that we were going to build was incredible. We were very much leaning towards alien, you know, not like down and out Clark Kent, but a fully realized alien, alien god. This guy was always flying and the design of the suit was, there was very, very cool subtle details that were really cool, but tonally it was like a god, like the ultimate powerful god and the relationship between Batman and Superman that we were going to make in this movie was the one that I always wanted to see. Still do, still do, man. It’s a damn shame we didn’t get to finish that one. Hopefully it will work out and Warners will be able to put it out eventually." (Cinemablend)
THE FLASH - Adam Brody
- Regarding how close they got to filming: "We were in Australia for some table reads and fittings and whatnot for a few weeks with George Miller and his camp, and that was a great experience. I don’t regret a second of it; I had a really good time and a lot of positive things came from that.” (MTV SplashPage)
- "It was a great script, and it was a great director, and I’m not saying it would have changed the world, but that movie would have worked, I will say that. I’m objective about it and I’m also a critic, I am nothing if not a critic. I’m telling you that, again, it wouldn’t have changed the world, but that would have been a nice little movie I think..." (UK's HeyUGuys)
Maxwell Lord - Jay Baruchel
Baruchel told Digital Spy that
- "...if we had been able to make the movie that we had gone down [to Australia] to rehearse, if you had seen the production art I'd seen... it would've been the coolest thing ever. It would have been the neatest vision of Batman and the coolest vision of Superman you've ever seen. It would have been dark and fairly brutal and quite gory and just f**king epic."
- "The problem was that, had it gone to production, it would have been the single most expensive movie in the history of movies. Sometimes people are reticent to spend upwards of $300 million. It was a fun two weeks in Sydney and I got to hang out with one of my idols, George Miller."
- "My friends, who were training to be Batman and Superman, they were down there for three months training and going to Weta in New Zealand to get their costumes. Weta, which is arguably the greatest special effects house on Earth, they had to cancel everything else. They were doing nothing but our movie. It was going to be f**king dope!"
-Regarding other aspects of Pre-Production: "They had everything there; maquettes, pre-visualisation, absolutely everything and we had assembled this neat cast. The rehearsal process was so strange and so unconventional and, I know it sounds hard to believe, but I assure you it would have been something f**king awesome!" (2010, Digital Spy)
Filling out the rest of the cast would have been:
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| COMMON as Martian Manhunter |
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| Megan Gale as Wonder Woman |
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| Hugh Keays-Byrne Martian Manhunter |
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| Santiago Cabrera as Aquaman |
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| Teresa Palmer as Talia al Ghul |
Let's see if DC-WB and whatever other studio involved can handle another go at making the JUSTICE LEAGUE movie.
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