Justice League of America - Exclusive Leaks

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Justice Leage of America is one of the new flicks in development that’s getting a tremendous amount of attention. It’s a comic book lover’s dream come true: they’re not just seven of the most powerful superheroes from the DC universe that decide to team up to fight crime together, the JLA comprises several of the most recognizable and iconic superheroes of all-time. You could make the case that not everyone knows who The Flash or Green Lantern are, and that only those that venture into comic book stores will know who Martian Manhunter is, but show a kid anywhere in the world a drawing of Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman and s/he will know what their names are. The only guy in Marvel’s pantheon of heroes that can probably rank as well known as the holy trinity of DC is Spider-Man.

Ever since the JLA movie was announced people have been wondering what the storyline for the film will be about. What unites these diverse heroes to join together? Are there any villains from the Superman or Batman movies that will make their appearances? Finally we have some answers to give you today thanks to a deep cover source that’s read the script for Justice League of America and provided us with answers to some of our questions.

I know that you want to know. Make the jump and I promise to share the goodies with you but be warned that there be spoilers ahead!

Here’s what I’ve been told about the JLA movie:

-- The characters of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash and Martian Manhunter comprise the League. One name that I did not hear mentioned was that of Aquaman. Where’d the fish guy go? Good question.

-- Story elements from the screenplay have been adapted directly from DC’s JLA comic book series.

-- The man wearing the Green Lantern ring in the JLA film is John Stewart and not Hal Jordan (Earth’s first Green Lantern) or Kyle Rayner (who followed after Stewart’s run in the comic book continuity.) It should be noted that in the Justice League cartoon series John Stewart is the same character serving as Earth’s Green Lantern.

-- The Flash is the youngest member of the JLA. He has a crush on Wonder Woman.

-- Wonder Woman is portrayed as the member that acts as defacto humanitarian and face for the League. Our source told us that the best way to describe how she is written in the script is to “think of Angelina Jolie and her relations with foreign countries.”

-- Unbeknownst to the League Batman has a piece of technology that he developed called the “Redeye”, a cool piece of hardware that he can use to spy unbeknownst on the other League members. Want to know what the secret identity of Superman is? Not a problem. Want to find out what can cripple or kill each League member, their Achilles heel? It’s a snap with the Redeye. Batman files away the knowledge in case the day might ever come when he will need to use it to take down a member of the JLA that goes rogue or becomes a villain.

-- The Redeye is a fulcrum to the events that transpire in the movie. A villain—and I’m not at liberty to say which specific one or ones—will gain control of the Redeye. Instead of serving as a means of protecting the planet’s populace from the threat of a superhuman out of control, this creation of Batman’s will come back to haunt him, threaten the lives of the League and the safety of everyone on the entire planet.

-- During the course of the movie the day that Batman feared would come happens: a member of the League will, and we directly quote our source here, “go bad.”

It should also be said at this point that there is at least one major twist in the story that I’m not going to blow because I deem it an Empire spoiler. For those out there that don’t get my reference, imagine it’s 1979, the internet exists and you’re reading rumors about the new Star Wars sequel called The Empire Strikes Back. There’s some new guy called Lando, there’s a big battle on a snow planet, Luke meets up with another Jedi and Darth Vader says something to Luke near the end of the picture. Sure, those are all spoilers but if I came out and said what Vader told Luke? That’s an “Empire”. What’s in the box that Brad Pitt holds in the final ten minutes of Seven is an Empire. Kevin Spacey’s change of footwork at the end of The Usual Suspects is another Empire. Got it? Good.

My thanks to “A Friend 22,300 Miles Away”.

http://movieblog.ugo.com/index.php/moviebl...vies_storyline/

[almaty 19]

hmm..always read the JLA...liked all the characters...they changed over time....had the hots for wonder woman./..

i heard they killed off the Flash in a DC comic recently?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

hmm..always read the JLA...liked all the characters...they changed over time....had the hots for wonder woman./..

i heard they killed off the Flash in a DC comic recently?

I'm not sure...I haven't kept up with comics for awhile. They sure are having success in translating them into big movies...they're almost a sure bet.

As for Wonderwoman...

Variety is reporting in their Tuesday edition that actress Jessica Biel (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Bade: Trinity) is “in talks” to star as Wonder Woman in Warner’s fast-tracking Justice League of America film. The George Miller-directed ensemble adaptation is expected to feature Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and Superman and Batman (but without Brandon Routh and Christian Bale).

[almaty 19]

hmm..always read the JLA...liked all the characters...they changed over time....had the hots for wonder woman./..

i heard they killed off the Flash in a DC comic recently?

I'm not sure...I haven't kept up with comics for awhile. They sure are having success in translating them into big movies...they're almost a sure bet.

As for Wonderwoman...

Variety is reporting in their Tuesday edition that actress Jessica Biel (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Bade: Trinity) is “in talks” to star as Wonder Woman in Warner’s fast-tracking Justice League of America film. The George Miller-directed ensemble adaptation is expected to feature Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and Superman and Batman (but without Brandon Routh and Christian Bale).

whoa, a fine wonder woman..she has a fine set of lungs..like her in blade 3

[DeadPoolX 9]

-- The man wearing the Green Lantern ring in the JLA film is John Stewart and not Hal Jordan (Earth’s first Green Lantern) or Kyle Rayner (who followed after Stewart’s run in the comic book continuity.) It should be noted that in the Justice League cartoon series John Stewart is the same character serving as Earth’s Green Lantern.

-- Unbeknownst to the League Batman has a piece of technology that he developed called the “Redeye”, a cool piece of hardware that he can use to spy unbeknownst on the other League members. Want to know what the secret identity of Superman is? Not a problem. Want to find out what can cripple or kill each League member, their Achilles heel? It’s a snap with the Redeye. Batman files away the knowledge in case the day might ever come when he will need to use it to take down a member of the JLA that goes rogue or becomes a villain.

-- The Redeye is a fulcrum to the events that transpire in the movie. A villain—and I’m not at liberty to say which specific one or ones—will gain control of the Redeye. Instead of serving as a means of protecting the planet’s populace from the threat of a superhuman out of control, this creation of Batman’s will come back to haunt him, threaten the lives of the League and the safety of everyone on the entire planet.

-- During the course of the movie the day that Batman feared would come happens: a member of the League will, and we directly quote our source here, “go bad.”

Well... I'm just going to show what a "comic book geek" I once was, but what the hell, right?

Hal Jordan was not Earth's first Green Lantern. He was the first Green Lantern assigned to Earth by the Green Lantern Corps and given the sector of 2814 to patrol, after Abin Sur died. However, the first Green Lantern was Alan Scott, who received his powers via a more mystical source (called the "star heart") and had the exact same powers as the modern-day Green Lanterns. Scott called himself "Green Lantern" because the green rock he found took on the shape of a "green lantern," hence the name.

Scott's powers did differ in one respect, however. His weakness was to wood. His power could not affect nor protect against anything made of wood, so that was a common theme in the Golden Age comics. Contrast this with the Green Lantern Corps, whose powers couldn't affect or protect against anything colored yellow (although this was later explained as an impurity within the Main Power Battery on Oa, due to the concept of "fear" magnified by Parallax).

The only Green Lantern whose powers weren't affected by the yellow or wood weakness was Kyle Rayner, who was instrumental in the rebirth of the Green Lantern Corps after it's initial destruction at the hands of it's "greatest Green Lantern" Hal Jordan when he went "mad with power" from the destruction of his home city during the whole "Death and Rebirth of Superman" saga.

As for Batman's new "Redeye" program, that was already done several years ago in the JLA comic books during the "Tower of Babel" story arc by Mark Waid. Basically, Batman -- being the paranoid nutcase he is -- spied on his teammates and developed "special protocols" to put them down in the event they got out of hand. The idea was that Batman, even though he was far smarter than any of the other JLA members and an incredible fighter, was still ultimately human -- if push came to shove, someone like Superman (even though Batman does have a Kryptonite ring) or Wonder Woman probably could kill him if they really were intent on doing so.

The problem was that the JLA watchtower didn't seem to have great security. Talia al Ghul (the on-again, off-again love interest of Batman and daughter of one is arch-enemies, Ra's al Ghul), managed to infiltrate the tower and make off with a copy of the files. Ra's used these files to incapacitate every member of the Justice League (some pretty horribly) and even unearthed Batman's dead parents, all in order to force a confrontation. Eventually, as is the way with heroes and villains, Batman (and the JLA), "win the day," but the the rest of the JLA are extremely pissed off with Batman. Some see Batman's side of it and how they, as virtual gods, need to have checks and balances put on them; however, others dislike the idea of not being able to fully trust their own team members. So they put it to a vote and it's a tie -- except for one vote: Superman. He has to make the final choice, but we never find out what it is, since before he can make it, Batman disappears and leaves the JLA for a time. He later rejoins (and does assist them periodically even while not a member), but it takes a while to regain the trust of some of the team.

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-- The man wearing the Green Lantern ring in the JLA film is John Stewart and not Hal Jordan (Earth’s first Green Lantern) or Kyle Rayner (who followed after Stewart’s run in the comic book continuity.) It should be noted that in the Justice League cartoon series John Stewart is the same character serving as Earth’s Green Lantern.

-- Unbeknownst to the League Batman has a piece of technology that he developed called the “Redeye”, a cool piece of hardware that he can use to spy unbeknownst on the other League members. Want to know what the secret identity of Superman is? Not a problem. Want to find out what can cripple or kill each League member, their Achilles heel? It’s a snap with the Redeye. Batman files away the knowledge in case the day might ever come when he will need to use it to take down a member of the JLA that goes rogue or becomes a villain.

-- The Redeye is a fulcrum to the events that transpire in the movie. A villain—and I’m not at liberty to say which specific one or ones—will gain control of the Redeye. Instead of serving as a means of protecting the planet’s populace from the threat of a superhuman out of control, this creation of Batman’s will come back to haunt him, threaten the lives of the League and the safety of everyone on the entire planet.

-- During the course of the movie the day that Batman feared would come happens: a member of the League will, and we directly quote our source here, “go bad.”

Well... I'm just going to show what a "comic book geek" I once was, but what the hell, right?

Hal Jordan was not Earth's first Green Lantern. He was the first Green Lantern assigned to Earth by the Green Lantern Corps and given the sector of 2814 to patrol, after Abin Sur died. However, the first Green Lantern was Alan Scott, who received his powers via a more mystical source (called the "star heart") and had the exact same powers as the modern-day Green Lanterns. Scott called himself "Green Lantern" because the green rock he found took on the shape of a "green lantern," hence the name.

Scott's powers did differ in one respect, however. His weakness was to wood. His power could not affect nor protect against anything made of wood, so that was a common theme in the Golden Age comics. Contrast this with the Green Lantern Corps, whose powers couldn't affect or protect against anything colored yellow (although this was later explained as an impurity within the Main Power Battery on Oa, due to the concept of "fear" magnified by Parallax).

The only Green Lantern whose powers weren't affected by the yellow or wood weakness was Kyle Rayner, who was instrumental in the rebirth of the Green Lantern Corps after it's initial destruction at the hands of it's "greatest Green Lantern" Hal Jordan when he went "mad with power" from the destruction of his home city during the whole "Death and Rebirth of Superman" saga.

As for Batman's new "Redeye" program, that was already done several years ago in the JLA comic books during the "Tower of Babel" story arc by Mark Waid. Basically, Batman -- being the paranoid nutcase he is -- spied on his teammates and developed "special protocols" to put them down in the event they got out of hand. The idea was that Batman, even though he was far smarter than any of the other JLA members and an incredible fighter, was still ultimately human -- if push came to shove, someone like Superman (even though Batman does have a Kryptonite ring) or Wonder Woman probably could kill him if they really were intent on doing so.

The problem was that the JLA watchtower didn't seem to have great security. Talia al Ghul (the on-again, off-again love interest of Batman and daughter of one is arch-enemies, Ra's al Ghul), managed to infiltrate the tower and make off with a copy of the files. Ra's used these files to incapacitate every member of the Justice League (some pretty horribly) and even unearthed Batman's dead parents, all in order to force a confrontation. Eventually, as is the way with heroes and villains, Batman (and the JLA), "win the day," but the the rest of the JLA are extremely pissed off with Batman. Some see Batman's side of it and how they, as virtual gods, need to have checks and balances put on them; however, others dislike the idea of not being able to fully trust their own team members. So they put it to a vote and it's a tie -- except for one vote: Superman. He has to make the final choice, but we never find out what it is, since before he can make it, Batman disappears and leaves the JLA for a time. He later rejoins (and does assist them periodically even while not a member), but it takes a while to regain the trust of some of the team.

LOL...very cool! Well written too! I could never get very deep into comics - most of the dialogue and storylines were either really confusing or made no sense at all.

[DeadPoolX 9]

LOL...very cool! Well written too! I could never get very deep into comics - most of the dialogue and storylines were either really confusing or made no sense at all.

Well, some of it is either written very poorly or just plain confusing. It really depends what type of comic you're reading and when. By when, I mean what year. DC Comics were very difficult to understand before "The Crisis on Infinite Earths" mini-series in 1985, which got rid of all of the confusing back story that had been stored up since 1938 or so. Then in 1986, DC had a complete "reboot" of all of their characters.

Some of the changes were quite monumental. For instance, starting during the Silver Age of comics (sometime in the late 1950s/early 1960s), Superman began growing exponentially powerful. So much so, that by the time the 1970s and 1980s came around, he could easily move planets out of their orbit and had ridiculous powers, such as "super ventriloquism."

Some of the differences made to the Post-Crisis Superman was that he was severely reduced in power and abilities. He wasn't made a "weakling" and was still one of the DC Universe's most powerful characters, but he wasn't a God any longer. He was mortal and he could be injured, depending on the enemy. Darkseid, for instance, who is a major enemy of Superman, has beaten Superman near to death before and broken numerous bones of his as well in previous conflicts. All of that, by the way, happened without Kryptonite.

The way he gained his powers also differed. In Pre-Crisis, Superman automatically became "super" as soon as he entered our solar system (or any solar system) with a yellow sun and was that way even as an infant. In Post-Crisis, Superman started out as vulnerable as any other human being, since he was essentially a "solar battery" and had to store and charge up with yellow sun radiation in order to become "super." That apparently took years, although powers did begin appearing slowly in his teens.

The reason this was important to the Post-Crisis Superman was because any "super action" drew on his reserves of solar radiation. If in a battle long and difficult enough, he could eventually use up all of his solar energy (which is, in fact, what happened in his fight with Doomsday, who ended up killing him). In addition, the continuation of his "being super" means he has to continually soak up yellow solar radiation. If he were far enough from a yellow sun (or completely blocked from it) for a long period of time, his powers would begin to wane and at some point, disappear completely.

Anyway... I could go on and on, but I'll stop now. I know way too much about this and it's not really that important. I guess this is what happens when you spend 10 years of your childhood reading comics. You come away with a bunch of relatively useless knowledge!

Edited September 26, 2007 by DeadPoolX

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LOL...very cool! Well written too! I could never get very deep into comics - most of the dialogue and storylines were either really confusing or made no sense at all.

Well, some of it is either written very poorly or just plain confusing. It really depends what type of comic you're reading and when. By when, I mean what year. DC Comics were very difficult to understand before "The Crisis on Infinite Earths" mini-series in 1985, which got rid of all of the confusing back story that had been stored up since 1938 or so. Then in 1986, DC had a complete "reboot" of all of their characters.

Some of the changes were quite monumental. For instance, starting during the Silver Age of comics (sometime in the late 1950s/early 1960s), Superman began growing exponentially powerful. So much so, that by the time the 1970s and 1980s came around, he could easily move planets out of their orbit and had ridiculous powers, such as "super ventriloquism."

Some of the differences made to the Post-Crisis Superman was that he was severely reduced in power and abilities. He wasn't made a "weakling" and was still one of the DC Universe's most powerful characters, but he wasn't a God any longer. He was mortal and he could be injured, depending on the enemy. Darkseid, for instance, who is a major enemy of Superman, has beaten Superman near to death before and broken numerous bones of his as well in previous conflicts. All of that, by the way, happened without Kryptonite.

The way he gained his powers also differed. In Pre-Crisis, Superman automatically became "super" as soon as he entered our solar system (or any solar system) with a yellow sun and was that way even as an infant. In Post-Crisis, Superman started out as vulnerable as any other human being, since he was essentially a "solar battery" and had to store and charge up with yellow sun radiation in order to become "super." That apparently took years, although powers did begin appearing slowly in his teens.

The reason this was important to the Post-Crisis Superman was because any "super action" drew on his reserves of solar radiation. If in a battle long and difficult enough, he could eventually use up all of his solar energy (which is, in fact, what happened in his fight with Doomsday, who ended up killing him). In addition, the continuation of his "being super" means he has to continually soak up yellow solar radiation. If he were far enough from a yellow sun (or completely blocked from it) for a long period of time, his powers would begin to wane and at some point, disappear completely.

Anyway... I could go on and on, but I'll stop now. I know way too much about this and it's not really that important. I guess this is what happens when you spend 10 years of your childhood reading comics. You come away with a bunch of relatively useless knowledge!

That was awesome, really! super ventriloquism

It reminds me so much of Greek Mythology, and society seems to always be craving mythology.

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

hmm..always read the JLA...liked all the characters...they changed over time....had the hots for wonder woman./..

i heard they killed off the Flash in a DC comic recently?

I'm not sure...I haven't kept up with comics for awhile. They sure are having success in translating them into big movies...they're almost a sure bet.

As for Wonderwoman...

Variety is reporting in their Tuesday edition that actress Jessica Biel (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Bade: Trinity) is “in talks” to star as Wonder Woman in Warner’s fast-tracking Justice League of America film. The George Miller-directed ensemble adaptation is expected to feature Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and Superman and Batman (but without Brandon Routh and Christian Bale).

whoa, a fine wonder woman..she has a fine set of lungs..like her in blade 3

maybe she wears a wonderbra too

[Mags 112]

It'd be nice if they DID have Christian Bale as Batman and Brandon Routh as Superman. Could get mighty confusing to have these different people playing the same character.

Oh, hold on, how many actors have played Batman again?

[DeadPoolX 9]

It'd be nice if they DID have Christian Bale as Batman and Brandon Routh as Superman. Could get mighty confusing to have these different people playing the same character.

Oh, hold on, how many actors have played Batman again?

Let's see...

FILMS

• Lewis Wilson
• Robert Lowery
• Adam West
• Michael Keaton
• Val Kilmer
• George Clooney
• Christian Bale

ANIMATION

• Olan Soule
• Kevin Conroy
• Will Friedle
• Rino Romano

That's all I can think of... hmm...

[almaty 19]

damn, DP..i hate to go against you on trivia night..

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damn, DP..i hate to go against you on trivia night..

LOL...me too. Better to have him as a teammate! DP - I'm going to be tapping into your knowledge of superheroes from time to time.

[almaty 19]

damn, DP..i hate to go against you on trivia night..

LOL...me too. Better to have him as a teammate! DP - I'm going to be tapping into your knowledge of superheroes from time to time.

same here..i am more versed on Marvel comiics

[Teacher Mark 53]

I think I've posted this before but it's good enough for a re-post: