Justice League Movie in 2013 & a Post-Nolan Batman Reboot?
Tue, March 29, 2011 
Back in August 2008 while riding still riding high on The Dark Knight goodness, Jeff Robinov (#2 big-cheese at Warner Brothers) boldly told the Wall-Street Journal an entire slate of DC cataloged films were planned including a third Batman installment with Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale, a Superman "re-invention" flick, Green Lantern and The Flash, and so on. An official announcement dishing out all the gory details were promised.
Then nothing ever came of said promise.
Plenty of things transpired moving the DC film unit ahead, despite that. Green Lantern got going with Martin Campbell directing and Ryan Reynolds headlining as Hal Jordan (due out this June) and Nolan is actively doing double-duties as he preps The Dark Knight Rises to direct and producing the Zack Snyder-directed, Henry Cavill-starring Superman: The Man of Steel; both will hit in 2012.
Between that initial WSJ interview and today however, there's one big difference with Robinov. He got handed the keys to the WB kingdom and, most important of all, greenlight authority. What started off as a minor blurb in the Los Angeles Times has exploded with the studio's future plans for their DC-on-film lineup.
Chatting it up with Hero Complex (a genre-oriented subsidiary of the LA Times), the new #1 at WB Robinov elaborated on their intentions confirming a script for a Justice League film is being typed as we speak for an unspecified 2013 release, and the Batman franchise will once again hit the "Reboot" button post-TDKR with Nolan and his wife/producing-partner Emma Thomas staying onboard as producers.
Interesting.
Well for one, why not simply bring Christian Bale's Batman back into the equation for JL? TDKR will bring that story to a close, yes. But his committment to Terminator: Salvation shows he hearts money and it ain't always about "the art." Maybe he just doesn't want to or maybe Bats bites the dust at the end of TDKR? The latter could certainly explain the need of a new Bats.
I'm also not buying a JL flick dropping in two years. To go from the first, in their hopes/intentions a series of, Superman (that's hitting at the end of 2012, no less) and final-Nolan-anchored Batman to seeing Cavill in the red-and-blue suit again, Reynolds as Green Lantern and a new actor as Bats 6 months-to-a year later is definitely on the jarring side. There's also the problem of what happens if GL and TMOS under-perform. They're jumping the gun on this one, and it feels like this is their way of riling up fandom. Once reality settles in, a more firm (read: realistic) release will get set out.
Reader Comments (4)
As great a jl film would be. I just dont see it happening this soon. There is so many factors to go into play there. Getting a director, casting, and script all done and ready to go. Plus it would probably be hurtful to green lantern, the reboot superman, and then what to do with batman situation and all that. Personally it still seems like wb/dc doesnt know what they want to do. They keep flip floping saying we are going to focus on solo films, no we are going to do teamup, back to solo films. I think they should hold off jl at least by a few more yrs. Make sure green lantern, superman reboot are hits they need to be. Then at least try to get flash/aquman/etc.... big gun guy out fit. Then Do jl film to help out others who didnt get a film yet. Plus the talk of redoing batman. IT just better to wait a bit let the nolan take die off for a few yrs and then start with new batman(new history/etc...).
I don't want them to rush Justice League. I mean, Marvel is introducing their heroes one film at a time and The Avengers STILL feels rushed.
I thought part of that newly minted DC Entertainment was to make sure their properties are done right and not just for the sake of getting them out there.
I agree with pretty much everything said. I think 2014 is probably the earliest we would see JL, with 2015/2016 being far more likely. We'll see how it shakes out.
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