Potential Justice League And Batman Reboot Movie News
Interesting DC Movie news has sprung up this weekend via Cosmic Book News (not to be confused with Comic Book Movie News. These sites need to get creative with their names) Now take both of these items with not a grain, but like a pound of salt, but in fairness this particular site did break the news that a rebooted Batman would appear first in a Justice League movie, then appear the following year in his own rebooted movie franchise. This piece of info was pretty much verified by the Hollywood trades not long after, so I’m gonna give them the benefit of the doubt here that their WB sources are legit.
According to the story, the membership of the team in the Justice League movie will feature all seven original founding members-Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Flash and the Martian Manhunter, and will include cameos from Cyborg and Green Arrow, and even some other second tier characters (So cross your fingers Red Tornado fans!) The versions of Green Arrow on the CW’s upcoming show Arrow will not be related to the JLA version, and if Wonder Woman’s show Amazon gets off the ground, her show won’t be related either.
Although rumors were floating around this week that a potential Justice League flick would feature different actors for Superman and Batman than Man of Steel’s Henry Cavill and whoever the reboot Batman would be, Cosmic Book News was told that “DC Entertainment have thought long and hard about having several different universes, but through the success of Marvel, have decided that it wouldn’t make sense to the audience and financially to have numerous actors playing the same roles year by year.” Good call. Sadly, it appears that whoever plays Hal Jordan won’t be Ryan Reynolds. All my issues with the GL movie aside, I don’t blame Reynolds for any of it.
Their other big scoop involves the plot of the rebooted Batman, said to be called simply The Batman, which is said to be based on the insanely popular video game Arkham Asylum. Of course, as millions of gamers know, the Joker was featured prominently in Arkham Asylum, as was Bane. Would the story only be loosely based the game, reducing those character’s roles, or does Warners have the balls to re-cast both the antagonists from both The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises so soon after Nolan’s trilogy? Both Arkham Asylum and Arkham City were hugely popular, so it can’t be a shock to see Warners looking to those games for inspiration.
Source: Cosmic Book News
