Justice Leak of America
The UGO movie blog is reporting some of the major story elements of the upcoming Justice League of America movie that ANYONE who's ANYONE is talking about. Some details:
- The characters of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash and Martian Manhunter comprise the League. One name that I did not hear mentioned was that of Aquaman. Where’d the fish guy go? Good question. Easily answered, animating a whale is a pain in the ass
-- Story elements from the screenplay have been adapted directly from DC’s JLA comic book series.
-- The man wearing the Green Lantern ring in the JLA film is John Stewart and not Hal Jordan (Earth’s first Green Lantern) or Kyle Rayner (who followed after Stewart’s run in the comic book continuity.) It should be noted that in the Justice League cartoon series John Stewart is the same character serving as Earth’s Green Lantern.
-- The Flash is the youngest member of the JLA. He has a crush on Wonder Woman. That's just darling
-- Wonder Woman is portrayed as the member that acts as defacto humanitarian and face for the League. Our source told us that the best way to describe how she is written in the script is to “think of Angelina Jolie and her relations with foreign countries.” That takes some of the dazzle out of it
-- Unbeknownst to the League Batman has a piece of technology that he developed called the “Redeye”, a cool piece of hardware that he can use to spy unbeknownst on the other League members. Want to know what the secret identity of Superman is? Not a problem. Want to find out what can cripple or kill each League member, their Achilles heel? It’s a snap with the Redeye. Batman files away the knowledge in case the day might ever come when he will need to use it to take down a member of the JLA that goes rogue or becomes a villain.
-- The Redeye is a fulcrum to the events that transpire in the movie. A villain—and I’m not at liberty to say which specific one or ones—will gain control of the Redeye. Instead of serving as a means of protecting the planet’s populace from the threat of a superhuman out of control, this creation of Batman’s will come back to haunt him, threaten the lives of the League and the safety of everyone on the entire planet. It'll really bite him in the ass
-- During the course of the movie the day that Batman feared would come happens: a member of the League will, and we directly quote our source here, “go bad.”
It should also be said at this point that there is at least one major twist in the story that I’m not going to blow because I deem it an Empire spoiler. For those out there that don’t get my reference, imagine it’s 1979, the internet exists and you’re reading rumors about the new Star Wars sequel called The Empire Strikes Back. There’s some new guy called Lando, there’s a big battle on a snow planet, Luke meets up with another Jedi and Darth Vader says something to Luke near the end of the picture. Sure, those are all spoilers but if I came out and said what Vader told Luke? That’s an “Empire”. What’s in the box that Brad Pitt holds in the final ten minutes of Seven is an Empire. Kevin Spacey’s change of footwork at the end of The Usual Suspects is another Empire. Got it? Good." What a handy term to coin
So brother eye is the story that this version of the script is drawing from: great choice, a very accessible storyline for non-comic fans, though Batman ends up looking like a jerk. Can they pull it off?
Tower of Babel! The best JLA storyline! Color me excited, man, this sounds great.
Everyone complained about Spiderman 3 because there were "too many characters" and "too much going on." How is WB going to introduce a martian, a goddess, an airforce pilot w/ an alien ring, a man faster than light and the BIG TWO into one movie? I hate sounding like Im the insane and negative fanboy because Im not. WB and DC convinced us that Christian Bale is Batman and Brandon Routh is Superman. Dont get me wrong, I hope the movie is a masterpiece, I just wish i could see Christians Batman and Brandons Superman meet face to face. They represent some of the best interpretations of those characters.
You can look at the first Justice League cartoon movie for how they could introduce all those characters at once. I think the trick is assuming that the audience atleast already knows who Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman are and have a vague idea of who the others are.
Elmo, that would definetely be the best and most logical way to go. It just seems to me that using the JL movie as a lauching pad for other JL members movies is the wrong way to go. I guess Im more of a typical fanboy than I thought. I am already complaining about the movie and they are not really even in pre-production. I still dont like the way they r going to bring the JL to the screen w/ the whole alternate universe thing but Im sure Ill still see the movie.