
It wouldn’t be a day of the week ending in –y if we didn’t have some juicy HOTT GOSS about the Justice League movie, and wouldn’t you know it – it’s all really bad. First up, there’s a fat nugget of rumor jizz drying on our prom dresses regarding the first screenplay, penned by Gangster Squad’s Will Beall. According to Badass Digest, which is like Reader’s Digest but in a monster truck, Warner Bros. and DC read it and determined that they had approximately 110 pages of toilet paper.
The story from each source is the same: it’s terrible. Some sources seem to think the whole movie is going to fall apart and never happen, while some believe that Warner Bros will keep moving forward, unwilling to lose the superhero arms race.
Beall’s script was focusing on a 4-man and 1-woman Justice League, as Superman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Batman and Wonder Woman would be taking on Darkseid in an Avengers-like battle to save the Earth. Unfortunately, it seems that the Warner and DC execs have been f*cking with the story so much that Beall never stood a chance.
Beall’s script supposedly includes Darkseid and a heavy cosmic threat. But the script has been half-baked from the beginning, with reports saying that heroes (beyond the core five of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash and Green Lantern) have been cut and added from the proceedings seemingly at studio executive will. The latest word was that Warner Bros, experiencing real cold feet, had decided to wait until The Man of Steel to really move forward, but it’s possible that moving forward now will mean a whole new script.
Keep in mind that this huge franchise tent pole of a film is scheduled to be released opposite Marvel’s The Avengers 2 in 2015, so naturally with all of this negative news pouring in on a weekly basis, some evil genius has to be cackling maniacally, right? In fact, it’s Fox’s Marvel consultant Mark Millar, who is currently working on a number of Marvel film projects. He thinks this whole Justice League thing is just stupid.
“I actually think the big problem for them is the characters are just too out of date,” said Millar, talking exclusively to SciFiNow. “The characters were created 75 years ago, even the newest major character was created 68 years ago, so they’re in a really weird time.”
“Now the stuff I grew up with… I adored the DC stuff growing up but really, how do you do a movie about Green Lantern,” asks Millar, “his power is that he manifests green plasma from his imagination and uses them as weapons against someone? Even that in itself if you just imagine then watching a fight scene with a guy who’s like a hundred feet away making plasma manifestations fight someone – it’s not exactly raucous, getting up close and personal.
“The Flash has door handles on the side of his mask and if he doesn’t wear that mask, I’ll be pissed off, you know what I mean? They’re in a weird, weird situation – if you’ve got a guy who moves at the speed of light up against the Weather Wizard and Captain Cold or whatever, then your movie’s over in two seconds.
“You can get away with stuff in comics that in live action’s just a bit sucky – the best one is definitely Aquaman. Aquaman can’t even talk under water. If you think about it in comics it’s fine, you just have a speech balloon, but how do you have Atlantis and people talking under water? Are they gonna talking telepathically? Is it going to be body forms? The actual logistics of each member of the Justice League is disastrous, and you put them all together and I think you get an excellent way of losing $200 million.”
Responded one DC rep, “Oh yeah? Yo mama.”




It’s different from the Avengers because all the Avengers characters are so fresh and new.
How he gun diss The Flash like that?
But Mark Millar seems to forget that he is terrible. Also can’t everything he said be applied to all superhero movies? If we followed him, the guy with the bow and arrow wouldn’t have been in the Avengers, and Renner is boss!
People do seem to forget that Mark Millar is the wrost and that boggles my mind. Millar speaks to the most craven, angry 14 year old nerd that lives in all comic readers and he churns out reprehensible, nihilistic garbage like Kick Ass and Nemesis.
We saw a Thor movie and bought it, we would have bought Green Lantern if the movie were any good. Flash worked pretty well as a TV show, he doesn’t have to move at the speed of light slow him down to Mach 1 is this really that hard? I seem to be able to watch a compelling Justice League cartoon every Saturday morning (shut up) hire one of those guys for this impossible task.
Give Brett Ratner a script consisting of 63 blank pages smeared with baboon feces and call it Justice League. It will make $200 mil.
It will open with $200 mil rather.
I like comics and always have, especially DC and Marvel, but I love it when they have these “our fantasy characters with impossible powers and more realistic and believable than your fantasy characters with impossible powers” pissing matches.
What is everyone not named Superman going to do?
Is the banner pic from the Superman Donkey-Punch issue? I must have missed that one.
Bitch didn’t have his money. He ain’t wanna do that, but she brought that shit on herself.
No, but it IS a legit panel.
I think its from the end or near end of infinite crisis when Max lord takes over superman’s mind and makes him fight batman and wonder woman
Hey, Millar! What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way?
My husband and I have talked about this “DC problem” a lot.
Other than Batman, I could never really connect with the DC characters. Superman is too strong… I never really worry about him. Green Lantern’s powers make no sense to me… “I WILL you to leave me alone and I show it by squinting and pointing my fist at you. Whoever sweats and grunts harder wins!!” Wonder Woman? I… ugh. It makes me sad. Aquaman gets a lot of shit and I actually think that makes me want to like him the most, but I understand that multiple attempts to modernize him have always ended up keeping the orange and green…
I also get people saying that some Marvel characters were a stretch (BW and Hawkeye) and I agree…. I just think it’s harder when you have to force EVERY character, not just the two background guys.
I’d rather Warners just spike this, honestly. There’s nothing wrong with individual hero movies. I love Marvel’s movies, but realistically, Marvel’s not going to turn out a “Dark Knight” anytime soon.
Want to hear my idea? Write a dark and gritty Justice League movie. Then rewrite it to make it even darker and more gritty, then double the amount of grit and cut the amount of dark in half. Then double it. Finally get Frank Miller to direct. That equals a good movie.
So basically bring All-Star Batman to the screen. Although I have to admit, Wonder Woman shoving a man aside telling him “Out of my way, sperm bank” has a certain cinematic appeal.
Fadeproof has a good idea. That’s why we love Batman… grit and darkness and mortality. And gadgets.
I always thought Wonder Woman could easily be modernized with a story and costume and it’d work if you got the right Wonder Woman.
That .gif is amazing.
That’s the issue… getting the “right” Wonder Woman. I also think to do it right you might have to modernize it to the point old school fans with kick and scream. Loose the whip (maybe a small reference…) Loose the nonsensical costume… Just make a kick ass woman.
Totally agree. I’d go so far as to say the “right” and Modern Wonder Woman would take a few jabs at a Linda Carter’s Wonder Woman.
It’s funny reading Millar’s comments about the JL being over the hill and impossible to modernize considering he’s probably cooking up a Fantastic Four reboot with Fox(that’s the one with the stretchy guy and the girl that can dissapear).
It’s so true. Why do these comments always seem to come from the Marvel side of things? Marvel…are you insecure?
I’d go for a Robot Chicken-style “Real World: Justice League” comedy about five young superheroes trying to make it in SoHo.
It’s been done. [youtu.be]
How the hell did this not dominate the 1997 TV schedule? I mean, Miguel Ferrerrererer (I never know when to stop typing his name) AND David Ogden Stiers?
It was one “special guest-star Tim Thomerson” away from being greenlit.
Aaron Sokin’s Justice League:
Wonder Woman: Oh no! The Boom Tube opening means the Parademons are coming!
Green Lantern: YA THINK?!?
Also, the Batcave has a Ping Pong Room for some reason.
Millar is so full of shit, he wipes his arse with cardboard.
He’s so full of crap that when he gets a boner he has to call it a pooper. COZ IT’S FILLED WITH POOP. Like the rest of him.
Not cool, man. Millar has Crohn’s Disease. His entire digestive tract is being attacked by his own immune system. It’s a nasty illness I wouldn’t wish on Fred Phelps.
Okay, maybe Phelps.
Uhhh… I did not know that. D’oh. Now I feel bad about what was totally a metaphor for him lying and self-aggrandizing rather than an actual dig at his physical health.
Damnit, why must reality ruin all my angry outbursts?
Does anybody outside of Hollywood think this is a good idea? I mean, sure, a Justice League movie would probably make money, if they can get it made in time. But rushing it this way is not only going to piss off the entitled fanboys — it’s going to result in it making less money than if they took the time to extract their heads from their arses and work out how to make good superhero movies. Which can’t be that hard — even Joe Johnston made a decent fist of it.
As one of said entitled fans, I think the Justice League is a fine concept for movies. Warner Bros is the problem, with their darkening grittyficationTM of everything. Get rid of them and things will go easier. Seems like they’re trying to make tragic classy popcorn movies, which really isn’t popular at the mo. That said, I’m sure Zack Snyder’s already talking about sequels.
And Joe Johnston’s fist makes everything better.
The should just wait and see how the man of steel does first before they make a JL movie.
“I actually think the big problem for them is the characters are just too out of date,” said Millar, who was kind enough to elaborate further, “I mean, Captain America? Pffft, relics like that are never going to work in a modern blockbuster.”
There are a couple problems and they have nothing to do with the characters, just Warner Bros. They should scrap the JLA movie, it’s just going to be dumb as they are really bad at telling stories. Instead, focus on the big franchises (Superman & Batman), with their own series, then tell Elseworld style stories that are separate from those narratives inbetween those story arcs. Kingdom Come would be a sick couple movies, and people are actually smart enough to follow along with the story. Do a Batman/Superman movie. One shots and stand-a-lone flicks will not kill your main franchises. Look at the ending to TDKR for fucks sake. Stop trying to follow Marvels lead, be original and daring. The fans will eat it up and begin shitting on those bland Marvel setups.
That’s not a bad idea, especially since Warner Bros. seems to be so gun shy about making any DC movie that isn’t Batman or Superman. It would probably even generate more excitement than JLA or Avengers 2.
Holy crap Burnsy! Yet another post?! Best. Day. Ever.
In my mind I imagine you have Vince chained to the pipes in the Uproxx basement with a ball gag in his mouth… bring out the gimp!
Hopefully you can take over the Frotcast next week too! At least some Hot Goss. Come on do it! I figure you owe me for not making the Chicago live Frotcast. Vince and Co. brought their groupies, so they weren’t down, but if you were there I bet we would have gotten at least five sluts pregnant. And I always wanted a kid. You owe me!
Will you please cross me off your “people to kill” list?