Adam Brody Looks Back at Almost Playing Flash in George Miller's JUSTICE LEAGUE MORTAL
George Miller’s Justice League Mortal is one of the greatest DC movies that was never made. I would have loved to see Miller get to make his Justice League movie back in 2008, but it just wasn’t meant to be. Shazam! stars Adam Brody and D.J. Cotrona were originally cast in the film as Flash and Superman, and in a recent interview with CB, Brody looked back and talked about the unmade film and he thinks it would have been a really good film! He told CB:
“It’s nice to have D.J. in this. We share that piece of history. Honestly it was pretty brief. I think he was in Australia longer than I was — I think he was cast before I was, and he was out there training I believe. I was out there for a couple of weeks. We were doing some table reads and some notes sessions. George Miller’s a genius, and he’s got some really eccentric, cool people around him. I fully believed in it. I really liked the script, and I thought it was going to be really good. In hindsight, and seeing what he did with Mad Max, I only think that moreso, but who knows? Maybe the ‘what could have been’ is better than what would have been.”
The movie also would have starred Megan Gale as Wonder Woman, Santiago Cabrera as Aquaman, Common as Green Lantern, Armie Hammer as Batman, and Hugh Keays-Byrne as Martian Manhunter. Jay Baruchel, who was set to play Maxwell Lord in the film previously talked about his experience, saying:
“I can speak to the crazy fucking fever dream that would have been Justice League: Mortal by George Miller. I just spent ten minutes talking shit about acting, but my time in Australia with him is everything I adore about the craft. He treated it like a play. We workshopped it. We had a full-on dramaturg on set and did super, super earnest Meisner technique shit and ripped apart and unpacked the script just for the sake of itself. It was art for art’s sake. George is one of the most important filmmakers of all time and part of the reason I wanted to be a director was Road Warrior. I have no idea what they did in the new one, but in ours we had psychokinesis and blood coming out of my tear ducts and a whole bunch of crazy, cool shit that would have been a blast to do. We were painting with pretty vivid operatic colors.”
Just in case you're curious about this film and the story it would have told, you can read a breakdown of the script here, or watch a live-read of it here. You can check out lots of other details on the unmade movie here!