Justice League Won't Feature Henry Cavill's Superman?!
Wed, March 30, 2011 
What we have here is a failure to communicate. Or perhaps a case where things are so early and jumbled that not everyone is 100% in sync at the moment.
The good folks over at Hey! U Guys were able to grab director Zack Snyder for a quick minute at the Sucker Punch UK premiere, and the subject turned to not Superman: The Man of Steel surprisingly, but the recently announced Justice League movie.
When that news broke the other day, we all assumed if Christian Bale's Batman wouldn't be utilized (something I'm still not 100% sold will go down) then Henry Cavill's Superman and Ryan Reynolds' Green Lantern would fill that slot of pre-established superheroes in help secure asses in seats; assuming TMOS and GL are the mega-blockbusters Warner Brothers is hoping.
Not so according to director Snyder:
In that Hero Complex article that elaborated on the mater, they openly acknowledged one of the key reasons Justice League: Mortal died was because it was deemed too confusing for general audiences (not to mention, you know retarded as fuck) to have two separate actors portraying Batman with the intention of doing multiple films. All concurrently.
So with that in mind, do I think Warner Brothers will repeat that same mistake for this hypothetical Justice League movie? No.
With all due respect to Snyder, his goal right now is on making one Superman movie and, most importantly, one that works. Cavill has without question signed a multi-picture contract, and there's no rhyme nor reason why he wouldn't be slotted in if it helped the box-office prospects of Justice League.
This also just plain doesn't gel with common sense and logic. WB is going to spend a lot of money pushing Cavill as the new Superman leading up to the reboot's release next Christmas. They already have, as a matter of fact; that EW cover-story awhile back. They're not going to go through all that hard work and dough just to turn around and get someone else as the Man of Steel a year or two later in addition to a possible Man of Steel sequel. That's way too confusing for everyone; general movie-goers and us nerds.
Reader Comments (3)
This sounds just like what you said, Jamie, it's just early and the info is jumbled. However, I'd say Snyder's half right. WB will most likely develop this separately, as in there won't be any common story threads or cameos in the stand alone movies, as Marvel is doing. All the stand-alones will be there own thing and they'll come up with a need for the heroes to get together, within the JL movie itself; kind of like what they did in the pilot of the JL animated show. The JL movie won't necessarily refer to the continuity of the other films, but won't contradict it either. As for casting I'd say Bale is 50/50 at best, depending on what goes on with TDKR and the money situation. Reynolds and Cavill are all but definite, unless they go with the John Stewart GL.
This does of course leave some room for the Routh and Welling fans to once again have hope that "their guy" will be back.
We'll see how it shakes out in the end.
Man this is a total mistake. It would be a waste to be separate things and have two conflicting live action characters going at same time. Way to be dumb wb.
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