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Warner Bros. pushing "Justice League" film for 2013

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Geoff Boucher of the L.A. Times sat down with Warner Bros. studio executive Jeff Robinov and discussed his plans to bring the Justice League to the big screen in 2013. Here's the article for those who want to read more, but here's a snippet:

The first priority for the man with the ultimate say on what films get made at Warner Bros.: Finally getting the Justice League, DC’s team featuring all its top characters, on the big screen in 2013. The picture had been very close to production in late 2007 and early 2008, but was killed by the Writers Guild of America strike, tax credit issues in Australia, and concerns by some at Warner about presenting a competing (and conflicting) version of Batman while director Christopher Nolan’s films were breaking box office records.
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The article also mentions that Robinov plans to reboot or reinvent Batman after Chris Nolan departs the franchise with The Dark Knight Rises however he also mentions that Chris Nolan and Emma Thomas will produce the reboot as well. I'm not sure if I'm exactly fond of a reboot of Batman so soon after Nolan's series is done, but I am a bit confused when Robinov says that Nolan and Thomas plan on producing it. I imagine they must be over-seeing the film as another director takes the reigns, a la the Superman reboot scenario.
 
This is definitely one of those "Wait and see" kind of things with me. At the moment I'm not quite sure what I think about any of this.
 
Bit of a quick turnaround. Seems like WB has given Nolan the keys to the "DC City." Looking forward to it!
 
I agree that the Green Lantern film and Superman reboot are going to come into play on this. Maybe to a lesser extent the Wonder Woman tv series. If GL underperforms and Superman is again only at best a modest hit with a WW series that tanks like nuKnight Rider or nuBionic Woman a Justice League movie would have to rely solely on Batman, so why not just make a Batman movie.

Warners is realizing that Marvel has a massive leap on them in terms of quality and visibility for their main characters. Sure the verdict isn't yet in on Thor or Captain America's films but it seems a foregone conclusion they are going to do well. While the reverse is currently assumed about GL. Marvel will go into the Avengers film with at worst two characters that had break out movies but likely three with Hulk already a known quantity and not a failure.

I can't imagine going into a JLA film where it all had to rest on just Batman. That works in the comics but I doubt that translates at the box office.
 
I hope we do get a JL movie but I am not going to hold my breath.
 
that's fantastic news will christian bale be batman in the new justice league movie ?
and we have a booster gold movie coming right ? ( tom cruise ) starring as booster .

I am a hughe dc fan boy.
 
I think the idea of combining all the super heroes from Marvel and then all the DC into one movie is a stupid idea. Just leave the super hero movies solo, no need for groups, because pretty much like Craig said. If you have several characters that their own products aren't great and then you add Batman, you might as well just made a Batman movie.

However a Batman and Superman movie would be cool.
 
I think a Justice League film is only a matter of time, but 2014 seems more likely to me than 2013. I think Green Lantern is going to perform okay, but it probably won't bring in the boffo box office Warners is hoping for, so they probably won't seriously start fast-tracking Justice League unless they're feeling extremely confident about Nolan and Snyder's Superman movie.
 
bigdaddy said:
I think the idea of combining all the super heroes from Marvel and then all the DC into one movie is a stupid idea. Just leave the super hero movies solo, no need for groups, because pretty much like Craig said. If you have several characters that their own products aren't great and then you add Batman, you might as well just made a Batman movie.

However a Batman and Superman movie would be cool.
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Agreed. I'd MUCH rather have a series of team-up movies (Superman/Batman, GL/Flash, Superman/WW, etc) where there would actually be time to explore the various character dynamics in a fun and interesting way.

Those have always been my favorite kinds of stories. The ones with 5 or 6 characters crammed into it don't work nearly as well I don't think.
 
I don't really care about "super-team" movies. I much prefer another awesome Batman (or a single awesome Superman) movie to a Justice League movie.
 
Skywalker said:
I think a Justice League film is only a matter of time, but 2014 seems more likely to me than 2013. I think Green Lantern is going to perform okay, but it probably won't bring in the boffo box office Warners is hoping for, so they probably won't seriously start fast-tracking Justice League unless they're feeling extremely confident about Nolan and Snyder's Superman movie.
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Agree, especially with The Flash movie scheduled to be released in 2013, but the project is still in development.
 
Wonder if Reynolds would be contractually obligated to play GL in a Justice League...
 
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