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Justice League Hires Mad Boss
Atom may be out, but Mad Max is in at the Justice League of America.
George Miller, the Academy Award-owning Aussie auteur behind such diverse flicks as the Mad Max trilogy, Babe: Pig in the City and last year's Best Animated Feature Oscar winner Happy Feet, has signed on to helm Warner Bros.' live-action version of DC Comics' Justice League of America.
The 62-year-old Miller has been given the go-ahead to begin shooting the movie in his native Australia for a targeted 2009 release, according to Variety.
Featuring a screenplay by Kieran and Michele Mulroney (the brother and sister-in-law of Dermot Mulroney), Justice League has been shrouded in secrecy, but sources say it will feature all seven superheroes from the original comic: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Flash, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter.
The JLA's roster has also included the likes of Hawkman, Green Arrow, Atom, Plastic Man, Black Canary and Captain Marvel, among others, but there's no word if any of them will pop up on the big screen. Also not known at this point: Which miscreant(s) from DC's stable of supervillains will be wreaking havoc.
Executives are reportedly hoping to wrap up production before a potential Screen Actors Guild strike—the union's contract expires June 30.
An actor strike isn't the only challenge facing Miller and his super friends—there's the not so minor problem of casting.
Per Variety, Warners is taking heat from Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan. The filmmaker is petitioning the studio to postpone JLA until after he's finished with the Caped Crusader projects he has in development, including The Dark Knight, which is wrapping production in Chicago for release July 18, 2008.
The director fears that a separate (and possibly campier) film featuring Batman could hurt Nolan's successful reboot of the DC franchise. His star, Christian Bale, has expressed similar sentiments and won't reprise the hero for Justice League.
Then there's the Man of Steel. Industry scuttlebutt suggested Warners would complete its planned sequel to 2006's Superman Returns. But the follow-up is on hold until director Bryan Singer completes work on his World War II drama, Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise. Like Bale, Supes alter ego Brandon Routh is not attached to JLA.
To avoid diluting the separate superhero franchises, Warners had initially considered doing JLA as an animated film. But the studio dropped those plans and is forging ahead with a live-action version most likely with lesser name actors.
The studio is also banking on JLA to serve as a launching pad for standalone films focusing on Wonder Woman and the Flash, both of which have been stuck on the drawing board for years. (Sorry, Aquaman, you're dolphin-hugging days only extend to Entourage for now).
Miller is no stranger to shepherding complex productions, whether it be directing Mel Gibson in the Mad Max series, working with animals on the original Babe, which he produced, and its follow-up, which he directed, or hatching cartoon penguins in last year's Happy Feet, which earned $379 million in worldwide ticket sales for Warner Bros.
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