BHC Exclusive: Spoiler Details on the JLA Movie’s Storyline!

[Maze]

Patrick Sauriol is back (Corona’s Coming Attractions)* and this time he is bringing fans some juicy tidbits from Justice League.*Just a quick side note, I have never met Patrick but his reputation in our community is 100% spotless. He is one of the original “Web Guys” that started this crazy community around a decade ago on a great site called Corona’s Coming Attractions.

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Posted by Patrick on 09/25 at 04:54 AM
One of the new flicks in development that’s getting a lot of online attention lately is Warner Bros. Justice League of America and rightly so. 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.

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-- 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.

The IESB can confirm that these details are 100% dead on and we can elaborate just a bit more. The last spoiler that we posted above will involve

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an incredible fight between three of the founding members of the Justice League. The scene has been described as one of the greatest superhero fights ever put on film. Can you guess which three Superheroes?

http://movieblog.ugo.com/index.php/..._spoiler_details_on_the_jla_movies_storyline/

 

[dark_b]

could be a good action movie.
we will see.

 

[Milkman95]

This could actually be a good story - let's hope Miller doesn't camp it up - I'd like a straight-on serious story.......

 

[ultimatefan]

This could actually be a good story - let's hope Miller doesn't camp it up - I'd like a straight-on serious story.......

Well, the guy who gave us the Mad Max series still must be there somewhere.

 

[spider-neil]

I'm hoping in this movie batman and supes aren't friends with both having a moan about the others' methods

 

[dark_b]

I'm hoping in this movie batman and supes aren't friends with both having a moan about the others' methods

i like how frank miller once explained it.
the two of them just can not be friends t:

 

[DIRECTOR]

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the "Redeye"

That is just lazy

 

[dark_b]

well this is just the basic short version.the whole script could be really bad.

 

[GreenKToo]

sounds good if its true.

 

[ultimatefan]

I don´t like the storyline. It feels like a good storyline for a sequel, but a first movie should be more like the pilot of the JLA cartoon, a huge threat shows up that the superheroes can´t handle on their own and they get together. Simple as that. It´s an introduction, not a twist.

 

[spider-neil]

I don´t like the storyline. It feels like a good storyline for a sequel, but a first movie should be more like the pilot of the JLA cartoon, a huge threat shows up that the superheroes can´t handle on their own and they get together. Simple as that. It´s an introduction, not a twist.

the JL pilot was fine for a cartoon but imho wouldn't work as live action as there is no character development at all and just assumes everyones knows the characters, fine for a cartoon as most of the people who watch them WOULD know the characters but a live action where joe public has no clue of the characters outside the big three I think this storyline wouldn't cut it.

 

[RakuMon]

It's essentially an adaptation of the "Tower of Babel" and "OMAC" story lines from the comics. (By the way, "Babel" is one of my favorite arcs in JLA so ). If these plot rumors prove true, I think this could be a really good movie. I just hope WB reconsiders Welling for Superman. From the sounds of it, Superman going rogue sounds like one of the plot points. Welling has proven in several Smallville episodes that he can do a "bad" Superman pretty well (see the episodes "Red," "Exile/Phoenix," "Transference," "Crusade" and this Thursday's "Bizarro.")

 

[dnno1]

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...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...

Please don't read this if you don't want to get disappointed or offended.

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I think Hal Jordan will be in the movie.

 

[Superman_]

It's essentially an adaptation of the "Tower of Babel" and "OMAC" story lines from the comics. (By the way, "Babel" is one of my favorite arcs in JLA so ). If these plot rumors prove true, I think this could be a really good movie. I just hope WB reconsiders Welling for Superman. From the sounds of it, Superman going rogue sounds like one of the plot points. Welling has proven in several Smallville episodes that he can do a "bad" Superman pretty well (see the episodes "Red," "Exile/Phoenix," "Transference," "Crusade" and this Thursday's "Bizarro.")

agreed there to be honest I like his bad Clark more then his good Clark. Thats when you really get to see him act.

 

[Lone]

Does anyone else get the impression that

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Aquaman is the Leaguer gone rogue?

Still wished that they had gone with Hal though...him being the first GL and all.

Edit: Btw, it's good to know that Patrick Sauriol is back in the online movie scoops scene. Coming Attractions was THE best place online to get movie spoilers/info from way back before Superhero Hype and before Spider-Man Hype.

 

[Wally West]

I'm happy to hear they're gonna go with Martian Manhunter over Aquaman.

 

[spider-neil]

I'm happy to hear they're gonna go with Martian Manhunter over Aquaman.

the cartoon has 7 members so there is still room for one more but I'd perfer to see hawkgirl than aquaman.

 

[ultimatefan]

the JL pilot was fine for a cartoon but imho wouldn't work as live action as there is no character development at all and just assumes everyones knows the characters, fine for a cartoon as most of the people who watch them WOULD know the characters but a live action where joe public has no clue of the characters outside the big three I think this storyline wouldn't cut it.

I´m not saying it should LITERALLY be the same plot, but something among those lines, with some more setup of the characters and stuff. This plot assumes even more you have to know the characters, for the audience needs to be surprised that one of the members goes evil. Like I said, it feels more like the plot for a sequel.

 

[dnno1]

Does anyone else get the impression that

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Aquaman is the Leaguer gone rogue?

Still wished that they had gone with Hal though...him being the first GL and all.

Edit: Btw, it's good to know that Patrick Sauriol is back in the online movie scoops scene. Coming Attractions was THE best place online to get movie spoilers/info from way back before Superhero Hype and before Spider-Man Hype.

No. The guy who reviewed the script said he didn't see Aquaman in it.

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I think Jordan is in it and he's going to go Paralax on everybody. He dies and the ring goes to Stewart. It makes sense now because I read a rumor posed by the Infamous_emijayne.

 

[spider-neil]

I´m not saying it should LITERALLY be the same plot, but something among those lines, with some more setup of the characters and stuff. This plot assumes even more you have to know the characters, for the audience needs to be surprised that one of the members goes evil. Like I said, it feels more like the plot for a sequel.

the pity is all the best justice episodes are enhanced because you know the characters:

tower of babel
white martians
project cadmus

A origin story is going to be quite difficult to pull off with an ensemble cast, they would be better of focusing on one character and showing the league through his/her eyes like they did with wolverine x-men 1.
if I had to choose I go with WW because she is one of the big three but isn't as big as superman or batman so people wouldn't have preconceived ideas on how she'd act.

 

[dark_b]

the JL pilot was fine for a cartoon but imho wouldn't work as live action as there is no character development at all and just assumes everyones knows the characters, fine for a cartoon as most of the people who watch them WOULD know the characters but a live action where joe public has no clue of the characters outside the big three I think this storyline wouldn't cut it.

thats why the time is nto right for a JL movie

 

[Superman_]

the JL pilot was fine for a cartoon but imho wouldn't work as live action as there is no character development at all and just assumes everyones knows the characters, fine for a cartoon as most of the people who watch them WOULD know the characters but a live action where joe public has no clue of the characters outside the big three I think this storyline wouldn't cut it.

Which is why I state Marvel has the right idea with their Avengers Movie. I don't care if they are using smaller Marvel heroes or not they are making sure you know the characters of the Avengers before they team up together.

 

[ultimatefan]

the pity is all the best justice episodes are enhanced because you know the characters:

tower of babel
white martians
project cadmus

A origin story is going to be quite difficult to pull off with an ensemble cast, they would be better of focusing on one character and showing the league through his/her eyes like they did with wolverine x-men 1.
if I had to choose I go with WW because she is one of the big three but isn't as big as superman or batman so people wouldn't have preconceived ideas on how she'd act.

You can make little introductions to the characters for the audience to have a basic understanding of who they are, it doesn´t have to be fullon origins. In the chase of characters like WW, Flash and GL it´s essential that they get some introduction, the only ones that moviegoing audience is familiar with are Supes and Bats.

 

[Citadel30]

Does anyone else see Luthor as the Villan who

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gets ahold of the "redeye" to use against everyone?

 

[spark627]

plot sounds ok, hope they give quick intros for ww and flash