Wednesday, August 13, 2008

JLM: To Be, Or Not To Be


Nobody knows what is going on with this movie, except maybe Alan Horn and Jeff Robinov, and I bet they are laughing at us while sitting on a pile of "Dark Knight" money.

Peter Sciretta over at "Slashfilm" delivers and article which states that JLM is in pre-production...

Last we head, a big screen adaptation of Justice League might not be as dead as we first believed. /Film reader Alex Litel stumbled across the website for Dr. D Studios, a Australian-based “digital media company” formed by Omnilab Media Group and filmmaker George Miller. The website not only lists Happy Feet 2 as being “In Production” and Babe 3, Fury Road and Justice League of America being in “Pre-Production”. The company is actually at the Siggraph conference this week “actively hiring” for “several large scale film projects with a growing team of top talent from Australia and beyond.” The following quote also appears in a press release for the company’s Siggraph booth

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/08/13/happy-feet-2-in-production-babe-3-mad-max-4-and-justice-league-in-pre-production/

Rob over at IESB is saying that his sources are telling him George Miller is off the project and it is dead because of the success of Dark Knight...

Changing gears for a sec, let's see what's currently going on with Justice League of America. Last week there were reports that the movie is finally moving forward. Guess what - that's not what we heard. IESB found out the complete opposite from various sources at WB -- the movie will not move forward in its current incarnation and a lot has to do with the success of The Dark Knight. Warner Bros. is not willing to risk pissing off Christopher Nolan or Christian Bale and their intent would be to move forward with a third Batman film instead of introducing another Batman in a JLA film.

Officially WB is stating that Justice League of America is on hold due to the potential SAG strike. We have been advised from various sources that the truth is that George Miller has been pulled off the project. We have contacted all parties involved including Kennedy/Miller and other producers but they have declined to comment at this time.

So does that mean that Miller is out of a job? Nope, we have been told that some execs over at Warner Bros. would like Miller to take over The Green Lantern project. Any truth to the rumor? Only time will tell but one thing is certain in my purest fan boy opinion - this script totally kicks ass!

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5319&Itemid=99

My buddy Matt received a bulletin on Myspace from DC Comics which states the film is going into production in 2009.




What does this all mean? It means the Green Lantern script sounds tight.

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