JLA the movie

You all know by now that I just can’t pass up relaying comic book movie news. Found at Angry Zen Master, news that Warner Bros. has decided to hire writers for a Justice League movie and I assume DC comics will have a big part in it too. This echoes rumors recently of both Brandon Routh and Christian Bale saying that they’d really enjoy doing a joint feature, but with Flash and Wonder Woman movies in the works I’m not sure that any director or producer would be able to successfuly complete a movie starring so many big characters in the stretch of 2 or 3 hours. It would certainly help that Batman, Superman, and probably by that time WW and the Flash would all be introduced and fleshed out, but I’m afraid they would fall back on mimicking the first X-Men movie a good deal.

Variety has a full article about the news and some history on JLA.

Feature film is bound to include some combination of DC’s most iconic superheroes, although the studio wouldn’t confirm which ones they might be. It’s unlikely that the studio and DC Comics, a division of Warner, would opt to feature second-tier characters.

Perhaps, with the 3-4 main characters already introduced and set up, they will skip right to the X-Men 2 phase and cut right to the awesome.

Warner also must deal with myriad producers working on the Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman franchises.

Studio dropped its efforts to make “Batman vs. Superman” in order to focus on relaunching “Batman” and “Superman” as individual properties, which it has done.

Filmmakers Chris Nolan (“Batman Begins”) and Bryan Singer (“Superman Returns”) are each on board to helm the next installments in the two respective franchises. Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” is eyeing a 2008 release and the next “Superman,” 2009.

Hopefully in any future installments involving Batman they continue to use beautiful old Baltimore, Maryland as a great representation of Gotham City!