Up until the Snyder Cut came along, George Miller’s Justice League: Mortal was the most famous unmade movie starring DC’s all-star team. The Mad Max director had his cast and crew in place, storyboards were complete, costume fittings were being done and the budget was okayed at a mammoth $220 million before the plug was pulled just months before shooting was set to begin in the summer of 2008.
Warner Bros. got cold feet on the idea due to the success of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, with the studio not keen on having multiple versions of their superheroes existing on the big screen at the same time, which ironically looks to be the Dceu’s business model for the next few years with Michael Keaton returning to play Batman and The Flash set to open up the multiverse.
With alternate realities now set to factor heavily into the...
Warner Bros. got cold feet on the idea due to the success of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, with the studio not keen on having multiple versions of their superheroes existing on the big screen at the same time, which ironically looks to be the Dceu’s business model for the next few years with Michael Keaton returning to play Batman and The Flash set to open up the multiverse.
With alternate realities now set to factor heavily into the...
- 8/13/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
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