you know it to be true.

big white alien walkers.

it may be good.

a hilarious character.

what was up with the monster Omacs on azzerrelo's 'for tomorrow'. where are they?

back to laughing at bitchy tbers

OR just have an actual trailer "tell" that particular characters "origin". The way most trailers are cut nowadays you usually know what the whole movie is going to be about without actually having to see it anyway.

Also, the continuity issues/multiple movies/BatmanMovie/SupermanMov ie/JLA Movie... really doesn't bother me because they've been doing it in the comics and the cartoons for years. It's really no different in this case either. I just want to enjoy a great movie and watch some of my favorite comic characters up on screen.

Personally, I think it's incredible timing for GM to pull this off now. The impending strike will force studios to try and make some bucks to counter the losses they'll likely face as a result. I have faith that if extra primping is needed, WB would be willing to pour more $$$ into it so they can have their big event before the draught.

Accomplished director + HUGE budget + heavy script + good writers + possibility of a series + perfect timing = Enough reason for me to get excited.

well um where the villains at yo?

...and this movie has suck-ass villains. Max Lord? Talia? Omac's? Really? That's the best they could muster? No Brainiac? No Eclipso? Not even a Dr. Light?

Not one damn super-villain?!!

Superma n is 'taken over' and is the major threat at the end of the movie? LAME! This will please the Transformer crowd, I guess. "Lookit that! Oooo, did ya see that thing go boom! What was the movie about? I don't care, I just went for the special effects! I was just happy paying $10 to hear Peter Cullen's voice!"

I said it once if I said it several times...bring on the JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA!!! Pit them up against Vandal Savage and/or the Fourth Reich! "Nazis. I hate these guys."

Pretty cool and interesting analysis Comedian. Having Bale and Routh would definitely up the excitement on this project, and would show WB is actually serious in making this movie a franchise at the level of Superman: The Movie, Batman Begins, Spiderman 2, and X2. Miller doesn't bother me as much ... not an obvious first choice, but the rumored story is what has really gotten me worried. You can have a great director, but if the story itself is bad, you simply have a less than satisfying movie. Think Spidey 3. Some great visuals/action, but the story sucked. Sandman was never fully fleshed out, Venom was a waste, MJ was really annoying and unsupportive, the Emo scenes … embarrassing, Gwen Stacey … pointless, etc.

Maxwell and Talia … interesting secondary characters to help flesh out that world, but the main villains? Fighting a bunch of robots? It seems pretty uninspired. Is this a budget issue? I guess it would be cheaper to CGI an army of robots for the JL to trash, but damn I didn’t like it in that CGI Star Wars or in that crappy Will Smith movie. BB had A-level villains with a bunch of A-level actors. Is that the best the writers can come up with? Who are these writers anyway? And, it’s not just populating it with good villains. All the really good superhero movies had a strong underlying human message/story (i.e. fear, responsibility, tolerance, etc.) that the audience can identify with. JLA just sounds like a big F/X action movie with no soul … ala X3.

Pull some ideas from the creative minds of Kingdom Come, JLA Unlimited, etc. And WHY does anyone need to die in the 1st JLA movie? If the Flash does die, I hope he gets better treatment than Cyclops/Xavier in X3 … I’m thinking of his heroic death in Crisis on Infinite Earths. And as for Maxwell being able to infiltrate Batman’s super-computers … seems pretty insulting to treat the world’s greatest detective in this manner.

thats a nice bet.

let the grownups talk.

My how times have changed. Ten years ago, comic book properties got no respect from Hollywood studios. The first X-Men film was considered risky. Fanboys would get a hard on with any rumor of some superhero flick in development.

Now, everyone is bitching that the Justice League is in pre-production, charging the WB with raw greed. Of course projected revenue is always the controlling in factor hollywood. But it always has been.

I'd love to see a good JLA movie, I'm crossing my fingers because it could be a shitfest. The script sounds good (based on 'The Omac Project'). Ten years ago, no fanboy would be bitching about a major hollywood studio making a JLA picture. So chill the fuck out.

I’m flat out sick of reporting on Justice League of America casting rumors. The movie sounds like it’s going to be a second tier, replacement actors, teen superheroes flick and it’s being directed by a guy who thinks it’s such an important project… that he’s shooting two other movies simultaneously with it. There’s no way JLA is going to be any good, and we’re all wasting our time by paying attention to it.

Still, I guess it’s my job to report this stuff, no matter how much it beats me down. So I’m just going to spit this latest casting rumor out and be done with it. An actress named Teresa Palmer may have been cast as Wonder Woman in JLA, according to Moviehole. They seem pretty certain about it, so maybe this is it and we can stop reporting on at least this role. Thank god.

Teresa played the blonde girl Vanessa in The Grudge 2. She’s mostly done bit parts in movie’s you’ve seen, or bigger parts in movie’s you haven’t. She’s 21 years old and 5’5” which makes her too young and too short to play Wonder Woman… if Warner Brothers was making a movie that was at all faithful to the characters rather than a film designed to sell discount boxes of cereal. Sadly, it’s the latter that’s going on here and not the former.

Posted on Friday, October 26th, 2007 at 10:52 am by: Peter Sciretta

The big news today is the supposed casting of Wonder Woman in the big screen Justice League movie. Moviehole claims that Teresa Palmer may have scored the role.

Age 21 years of age, Palmer is the youngest of the bunch of Wonder Woman hopefuls. Her publicity materials list her as 5′ 5¾”, which is considerably shorter Amazon character who is known for her curvaceous long legs. The modern day character is 6′3″ while the older version was much shorter (5′11″ was “amazonian” height for a woman in the 1960’s). Palmer starred in December Boys and The Grudge 2.

Again, this casting has not been 100% confirmed by the studio. But looking over the past hopefuls for the role worries me a bit. Does Warner Bros have any idea what they are doing with this film? It’s beginning to look a lot like the JJ Abrams Star Trek casting, young actors with little to no name value

2. I like that it says they're NOT going the obvious fanboy route and casting a team of villaims ala Super-Friends.

3. It makes sense to cast two plain-clothes villains and some robots as the bad guys since the mainstream public will be overwhelmed with seven heroes in colorful tights.

4. The director's best work was the early Mad Max movies, so it's a cool in joke that he wants a villain named Max.

5. The superheroes fight among themselves cliche works here because of the old question "what does Superman need assistants for?" they have to beat him to demonstrate to the viewing public that Superman isn't omnipotent, invulnerable and all-powerful, in order to justify WHY he needs a team.

cross-post with the Pelham 123 talkback: John Travolta as Maxwell Lord hijacks a subway car and flies it to Cuba. With Jared the Subway guy as the conductor for product placement and a 21 year old blonde Australian midget in the Martin Balsam role.