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The idea of a Justice League movie excites me. It really does. But I think that DC has to approach their “big team” superheroes to the big screen in a different way to Marvel’s approach with The Avengers. Although Hollywood has been happy to continually produce reboot after reboot and show us the origin of a character over and over again (cough Spider-Man cough) DC and Warner Bros need to be aware that the audience will get sick and tired of seeing the big name characters in the same stories. In this article, I present how I would approach a live action Justice League movie. First of all, we’ll use Darwin Cooke’s masterpiece The New Frontier as a template for the film’s plotting and which characters to include.
HOW TO MAKE A JUSTICE LEAGUE MOVIE
This is a brilliant book. Personally, I prefer it to Watchmen as an example of great comic story-telling and it does something very similar to Moore’s oft-lauded work. In a nutshell The New Frontier paints an origin story of the Justice League that is set in the late nineteenfifties. Cooke’s style and writing has proven that it can be adapted well to the screen as the story was amongst the first DC animated film. So why not also adapt it for the big screen? The beauty of this story is that Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman are all established characters before the story begins. It is explained that they came from the Golden Age and how they managed to survive through the ages. The thing that works so well with this is the fact that there is some realism in the story. Further I don’t think we need to see a Batman origin story after the (again, in my opinion) masterpiece that was Nolan’s trilogy and this would solve this problem. We see Batman in The New Frontier and we see him in action but his presence is more than just felt all the way through it. He is an important part of the story but he is not the crucial element. If Snyder’s Man of Steel is as good as it looks from the teaser trailer we will not need Superman’s origin either. We would have had possibly two awesome origins (Donner’s Superman and hopefully Man of Steel ) by then so again why add a third? In Cooke’s work, we get to see a side of Super22
man that I don’t think the audience has ever really seen on film before. Superman has become a part of the US government and is more a “yes-man” than the iconic hero we know him to be and become again.
I said that this film does not offer an origin for any of DC’s trinity of superheroes. Instead it offers one for the League itself, and more crucial, two of the main components of the League. So who does it offer origins for? I first thought of this idea when Green Lantern came out last year. With the knowledge that the film was a failure and it could face ????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????Q????????????????!????????????????????????????????????????????????????????%?????????!????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????=????????????????????????)??????1???????????Q??????????????????????????????!???)??????????????((