George Miller Confirms The Death of Justice League: Mortal

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on December 2, 2008

The Justice League of America

In a recent appearance on a morning talk show in Sidney, Australia, director George Miller revealed that he is no longer involved in the Warner Bros. production known as Justice League: Mortal. The project, which has long been one of great interest to folks online, had stalled earlier in the year due to the writers strike and other production complications, and now it finally appears to be dead in the water. That is, until Warner Bros. can line up another director.

According to a Dark Horizons report, Miller explained that studios only want “bigger stars in their superhero movies now.” Meaning that having Adam Brody play the Flash, Armie Hammer play Batman and Megan Gale play Wonder Woman isn’t going to cut it. And when you really look at it, stars or no stars, it never seemed as if Miller had the chops for a superhero movie of this magnitude, with this many iconic characters. In fact, I would contend that Warner Bros. still isn’t ready to make a Justice League movie — their DC Comics line of films is still so disheveled, despite the success of The Dark Knight. They have a long way to go before they can start throwing these characters into the same movie. Who knows, they will probably continue to try, even if it is a terrible idea.

Should Warner Bros. choose to keep this project alive, who do you think should take over as director?

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Josh_Radde

They should probably get their act together so that they can beat Avengers to the box office in 2011. I say give the project to McG because who the f*** cares

Reg

As much as I love Marvel and the anticipated Avengers in 2011, I was hoping this really come to see the light of day but it seems my hopes for seeing the justice heroes won't be happening anytime soon. Dc and Warner Bros should start learning from Marvel on how they're able to get all of the characters together. I see that Marvel brings out many solo projects of Marvel Characters and it seems to work.
Justice League: Mortal is rushed and it seems some of the star are not as big (yea yea I know its noted up above).

Alericc

Miller would have butchered it to make it more "cutting edge".

BillBrasky

May as well be "Super Friends" now, the ultimate alliance of worthless super heroes (lieu Superman and Batman)

HempKnight757

First step Green Lantern movie starting Clay Olah

WOW

First step is to get the story right.
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news08/081202n.php

kanezona

Miller's choice of casting concerns me, with the exception of Megan Gale whom I still believe should portray Wonder Woman in both the JLA film as well as the solo film. The same goes for Christian Bale as well as whomever gets recast as Superman. There needs to be continuity between the movies. As for casting big names, not too sure about that. Unknowns like Bale, Carter, Reeves, made the characters more real. People want to see their live-action superheroes not actors portraying their favorite superheroes. As for a proper director, I think Miller's still involved with this project. But if I had my way, I'd have McG.

George Miller Confirms The Death of Justice League: Mortal

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