George Miller Reflects on Why His JUSTICE LEAGUE Film Fell Through
One superhero movie I would have loved to see is George Miller's vision of DC Comic's Justice League. That's something that we'll never see, though. It's a shame because it could have been amazing. He was developing Justice League: Mortal back in 2009 and it would have brought the team together against Maxwell Lord and Brother Eye.
The cast of the film included Armie Hammer as Batman, D.J. Cotrona as Superman, Megan Gale as Wonder Woman, Adam Brody as Flash, Common as Green Lantern, Santiago Cabrera as Aquaman, Hugh Keays-Byrne as Martian Manhunter, and Jay Baruchel as Maxwell Lord.
You can actually see some concept art from the film here and a test photo shoot of Gale as Wonder Woman here. Zack Snyder is the man who will now bring the Justice League to life on the big screen, and I hope he's able to pull it off.
During an interview with THR, Miller opened up about what happened to his film and listed off a few reasons as to why it never happened:
"I really was attracted to it. But there was a writers strike looming. We had to cast it very quickly, which we did with Warner's casting people. And we cast it really quickly and we mounted it very quickly. And it depended on a start date and it depended on some basic rebate legislation that had just got through a new Australian government. But it was just too big a decision for them to make in the time. And that fell through and the whole film fell through. We almost got there. And it wasn't to be. But that happens a lot, where films line up and the stars look like they're aligning and they didn't."
There's currently a documentary about Justice League: Mortal that is in development, but right now it's waiting on getting an official approval from Warner Bros. That's poster art for the doc that you see above. There's a great behind-the-scenes story behind the development of this project, and I hope WB allows it to be told.