Seeing that the X-Men already have two movies out, and another one in the works already, I’d say it’s time the Distinguished Competition get on the ball and put out a feature film with their own heavy weight team. Forget another Superman or Batman solo movie, get ALL the big guns together. Here’s who I see in the cast…
Superman - Colin Farrell
Batman - Guy Pierce
Wonder Woman - Eliza Dushku
Flash - Timothy Olyphant
Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) - Jake Gyllenhaal
Aquaman - Brad Pitt
Martian Manhunter - Michael Dorn
And as the ‘Legion of Doom’:
Lex Luthor - Billy Zane
Braniac - John Malkovich
Scarecrow - Wayne Pygram
Cheetah - Gigi Edgley
Solomon Grundy - Michael Chiklis
Sinestro - Steve Buscemi
Black Manta - errr, I give up
Art: I wouldn’t particularly care who played them, but MY version of the JLA would have Hawkwoman, Wonder Woman, Black Canary and Zatanna (in the imitable tux/fish-net stocking costume).
I know the Avengers would be tough filming because most of the important characters are licensed to different studios; presumably, Warners holds the film rights to all its characters.
A problem with the JLA is that since Superman and Batman are both inteesting enough to hold movie franchises of their own, you have to weaken them to justify having, say, Blue Beetle or Martian Manhunter in the same movie. Batman and Superman are too expensive to hang around and keep in the background.
Dewey: Back in the '60’s and early '70’s, I remember reading in her book and JLA that she could glide on air currents. I had assumed she never lost this ability.
Baloney! Any movie with a team of superheroes who aren’t fighting a team of supervillains would suck.
Plus, a live-action version of the Hall of Doom rising out of a swamp would be too cool for words. Not to mention a live-action Solomon Grundy. Hopefully, with pants.
Actually, with the possible acceptance of the Animatrix toons, why would this have to be live-action? We know that superhero costumes ‘don’t work’ on real-life characters, so why not go the high-end animation route, where we can retain the comic-book tried-and-true costumes?
I know the Justice League cartoon already exists, but the small amount I’ve seen (I fret, SEAsia is behind North America, we’re only just seeing JL on air) has somewhat questionable animation at times, and the quality overall really varies. This is understandable given that it’s a made-for-teevee, 22-minute thing. But mayhaps something with ‘The Animatrix: The Second Rennaisance’ quality but as a superhero cartoon would rock! (yes, I know The Matrix is essentially superheroics, but you take my point).
Oh, that’s right, grown-ups don’t like cartoons, so it wouldn’t sell in the cinemas. How will I 'splain to my boy-o that daddy’s not a grown-up?
Anyone see the pilot for the Justice League TV series that was planned on CBS? It never aired on American TV but it was floating round a few comicons. I saw it when one of our local broadcasters aired it (probably because the pilot of a already cancelled show is dead cheap).
In other words that is utter BS. The only reason people want to stick their heros in rubber/leather fetishist costumes is because Burton’s Batman did so well the hollywoood pinheads thought it was the only way to go.
One reason Burton went with the rubber suit was to get the seperation from the TV series which was camp. Now people want to believe men in tights would be not be accepted. Nonsense!
Truth is their afraid the non comic reading public won’t watch… mind you why the hell would the non comic reading (ie never picked up a comic nor ever liked superheros) public give a flying fig about a superhero movie
If the costume is done right and the person inside it has the right physique it could work.
I just wish DC Comics would do a non-Superman/Batman movie, I know that Catwoman is in the works with Halle Berry, but I am talking about Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, or other characters in the DC Universe.
I mean, I was never too much in the Marvel Universe, but they have capitalized/made money on alot more of their characters, than just Spiderman or X-men. Daredevil, The Hulk, I hope Felicia Hardy as Black Cat, they are working on a Punisher, Fantastic Four, Electra plus various sequels.
DC could have taken Chris ODonnell and turned him into Nightwing, and that would have been good. They should have taken Birds of Prey and made that into a movie. Why has it taken so long for Catwoman?
A Justice League movie would be good, but I would count on it, DC just keeps a narrow focus on Superman and Batman, which sucks.
Oh, why does Wonder Woman now fly?, when her origin was re-done, Hermes gave her the power of speed and flight.
The casting was terrible, the costumes laughable, and it had scenes like Flash and The Atom sitting around a kitchen arguing about trivial stuff (they sounded like barely-post-pubescent whiners), and my favorite:
Green Lantern watching helplessly as Bad Guy throws briefcase over the cliff. “Oh, no,” GL must be thinking, “If only I could fly. Or grab it with a long pair of tongs, or something… hey, wait a minute…
Oops, never mind. Too late.”
After that, I live in fear that any live-action JLA would suck.
I just got a copy of the “origin” episode of the live-action The Flash TV series. Although it contained the obligatory “you read too many comic books” line, it was pretty damn entertaining. The costume not only looked good, but the reason for its existence and why it looked the way it looked was pretty believeable as well.
The Flash TV series, which came out in 1991 in the shadow of “Bat-mania,” was actually quite good. I remember hearing that the pilot was the most expensive ever made at the time. The rubber costume looked good, the speed special effects looked great by TV standards, the Danny Elfman theme fit the noirish opening sequence perfectly, and the acting wasn’t bad at all. John Wesley Shipp definitely looked like a superhero.
My favorite was Alex Desert, who played Barry Allen’s friend Julio–he went on to play the black guy in Swingers whose catch phrase was “This place is dead anyway,” and he is the lead singer of the ska band Hepcat.
Even better, Mark Hamill appeared to play the Trickster, one of the actual villains from Flash’s Rogues Gallery from the comics. And in one episode, Flash teamed up with “Nightshade,” an older crimefighter who wore a dark suit, trench coat, slouch hat, and a gas mask. I was in junior high, but even then I knew he was a stand-in for the Golden Age Sandman, a character I have always loved.