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Justice League: Christian Bale’s Not Diggin’ It
Posted by Joshua Martin (joshua@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 21, 2007
This news week has been all a-twitter with the possibility of a JLA movie getting fast tracked through the pipeline, making sure it gets done as quickly as possible, with the possibility of making a mega movie.
First, today news broke that Brandon Routh may stay Superman, but wouldn’t agree to JLA at the moment. Now on the denial bandwagon is Christian Bale. In talking to the boys and girls at IESB, he came out with a very flat and meaningful quote. After saying not only he wouldn’t do JLA, but he’s not even been approached about it.
Bale told IESB, “It’d be better if it doesn’t tread on the toes of what we’re doing, though I feel that it would be better if it comes out after Batman 3.â€
There you go. Not only has he not been approached, but he won’t do it, and wouldn’t consider it. He also subtly hints that after this trilogy, he may be out. Leaving us with the impression, he’d not want to waste his three movies without the director and vision.
So you’d have two concurrent superhero franchises, and a movie that would be pertaining to those movies with different actors as them. Does that sound like the worst idea ever? It does to me.
Lets hope that JLA either falls through, or they have the balls to cross over good movies. I’d not mind Superman Vs Batman IN a movie. Guest appearance of Flash in the Superman movie… coming in and out enough they could make a separate movie. I just think that would be the best. JLA, seems bound for failure.
And if you’re looking for more failure, stay tuned to our site pertaining to JLA.
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2 Comments
August 21st, 2007 at 7:00 pm
I believe that if you are going to make a movie like this one the characters need to have the same personalities and faces as the other movies. People will expect to see Brandon and Christian as superman and batman. In the past the mavies have made the characters stray and different from the ones in their feature movies. that is why they failed. They have used different writers, different actors and atcresses, and have also tried to make it more “kid friendly”. If they can keep those aspects the same then we may have a winner. Believe me even the kids will want to see the same batman that Christian has made (which is the best since Michael Keaton’s interpretation). Since I brought it up, the writers for Batman Forever, and Batman and Robin need to have their typewriters trashed. they killed a perfect Batman series with their over use of neon and satire. ‘Nuff said! Superman Returns was the best superman yet. Use the writers from those two movies and the directors from them as well and you might get a winner. That would be a first 2 directors on the same movie, or let Brian Singer do it. Keep the costumes close to the same (this will bring the kids in), keep the personalities current with what has been on the big screen and come as close as you can with the rest of the characters. Flash must be nuts though, Matthew McConaughey would be perfect for flash, Green lantern - Lawrence Fishburne, Wonder Woman - Charlize Theron, hawk Girl - Katie Holmes, Martian Manhunter - Use a body builder, He’s a martian he is not expected to act like a human anyway. (No offense intended to any Bodybuilders reading this) but he neeeds to pretty plain.
August 22nd, 2007 at 5:03 pm
JLA will probably suck, so it’s probably a good idea for Bale to stay away no matter what.