Justice League script review

[jmc]

I have a good nights sleep and wake up to this news, bloody hell!

Fingers crossed it's still bogus.

 

[Matt.S99]

I guess to have them for many many years...

Now this 14 pages were before the opening credits role so maybe it isn't as bad as people think...

I still don't like the Crime Syndicate being in this movie though...

i think too much is happening in before the opening credits, its going way too fast

 

[Wally West]

JLU ended because Timm wanted it too.
The Batman and JLU were o simultaniously.

Once the The Batman began to air, JLU was no longer allowed to use the Joker or any other Batman villians or locations. That was like a slap in the face to Timm. Yes they had other villians to use so they went on. But it showed where WB's priorities were.

 

[Webhead2006]

Wait so are they now saying that leaked script that dude over at moviehole is now true and not bogus like it was confirmed a few hrs later?

 

[az824]

and because ra's al ghul and scarecrow were in begins, the batman coudnt use them. and they cant use two face b/c of the new movie

 

[Matt.S99]

yup

 

[Webhead2006]

batboy u saying yup to my post or to az824

 

[Dotten]

Raiders wasnt a bad script.

Back in the days lots of people reckoned it to be. They also felt that Spielberg was a overrated director. How wrong were those guys. The same type of people that today goes around painting the wall totally black and spreads hatred. The world is'nt black and white, there is a lot of color in-between. Some things about the movie will be good (we have a lot of good news), som will be bad. But the way people are looking at everything like it's bad, that's just plain stupid. By the looks of it you hate everything about the movie, even bashing on a good director and downsizing the importance of WETAs involvment. And basing your bashing on rumors rather then the facts we know.

Good budget, good director, excellent producers. That we know. Rumors about script (first says it's spectacular, some says it's bad. Take your pick) and no news of who will be cast (although a lot of insane rumors).

You can concentrate on the facts or you can concentrate on rumors. It's up to you...

really? 28 years ago george miller put a guy in a movie who's now famous. man, he must be magic, i'd trust him to do anything. but like i said above, so far every casting rumor has been less than desirable.

Congratulations, your sarcasm totally made your post so little constructive

Peace out, why don't you?

like the script review seems to imply, this is superfriends fro 10 year olds, and something anyone older would be less than interested in being entertained by.

A 14-pages script impression from amateurs. Of things happening before the starting-credits (that said, I highly doubt it's real because one does not describe as much as they claim this script does. That is for the director to interpit, in a script it's not spelled out like that. But that's just my guess).

i have no problem with being an optimist, im optimistic and try to see the bright side of things whenever its warranted. but im also not gonna blindly pretend everything is great when there's so much to imply otherwise. im not gonna play dumb just to be happy.

"So much"? You have a crazy rumor about a script and no cast. You know the director, you know it will have a budget north of 160 million dollar and you know it has some of the best producers one can get. Excactly what is all this "so much to imply"? Rumors about a teenage cast, wich is totally bogus? Rumors about a giant octopuss script? Please tell me. Do you see the cup as half-full, or just as almost empty? Writing what you do it sounds like yout far far far from anything optimistic. It's like the sun never shine where you live

All in all, I hope this movie will be great. And there has been a lot of positive news about the movie, but idiotic rumors are overshadowing the good news and people are missing out on the fact that there is a lot of hope.

 

[Lestat74]

Ok, I believe there is a certain amount of evidence to suggest that this script is in fact fake. Someone over at the IESB boards figured it all out.

The first real scoop on story details broke from Patrick Sauriol over at UGO.com. He used to write for Corona Coming Attractions back in the day, when that was THE place for movie news/gossip. This guy has an excellent track record and credibility. In his original scoop, he called Brother Eye the Red Eye by mistake. A few days later, he corrected his statement, saying that it was indeed called Brother Eye ( like the comics ) and he called it Red Eye because it has, well...a big red eye. It was a simple mistake.

Now this supposed script has references to the Red Eye...which sounds like someone read the original script synopsis, never bothered to read the corrections a few days later, and made this fan fic. In fact, the notion that the script also has details as to what things will look like ( like the Hall of Justice, etc ) is totally not how a real script writer would write...how things will look is not up to the scripters at all, it's up to the design team. Again, it all reads like fanfic.

So while I may be wrong and this all may be real ( I hope not ) I'd say those are some pretty big red flags there.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Talk about speculation! Do we really, truly know why Nolan was pissed? He could have mentioned something as in "I wish they would wait" like Bale has but now all of a sudden it has blown up to full scale Nolan is flippin pissed and he was able to get the script rewritten?!? Nolan is up to his eyeballs in TDK stuff, I doubt he has that much time to worry about JL. And where did Ra's come from? I can't find it anywhere where it was confirmed he was ever in the movie? Are people just making cr@p up now? I wasn't too crazy at first about this JL movie but we really need to chill and find out what the real deal is, this is getting out of hand.

I concur... when the hell was Ras ever even rumored?

 

[Motown Marvel]

Back in the days lots of people reckoned it to be. They also felt that Spielberg was a overrated director. How wrong were those guys. The same type of people that today goes around painting the wall totally black and spreads hatred. The world is'nt black and white, there is a lot of color in-between. Some things about the movie will be good (we have a lot of good news), som will be bad. But the way people are looking at everything like it's bad, that's just plain stupid. By the looks of it you hate everything about the movie, even bashing on a good director and downsizing the importance of WETAs involvment. And basing your bashing on rumors rather then the facts we know.

Good budget, good director, excellent producers. That we know. Rumors about script (first says it's spectacular, some says it's bad. Take your pick) and no news of who will be cast (although a lot of insane rumors).

just because of an isolated incident in hollywood and misunderstanding of spielbergs talent in the past, doesnt mean thats the situation here...in fact, it has nothing to do with whats going on here. i mean, i can write a script called "sock vs. hot air balloon", and im sure it'd read like s#!t, but are you gonna tell a studio to make it just because of what happened with spielberg?

and i dont hate everything about the movie. like you said, its got good producers and a good effects company. the director could go either way for me. and those are the only facts we have right now. not much to go on. so then turning to the rumor side of things, sure they cant be fully trusted, but looking at what's been heard, im far from being impressed. and with a movie like JLA im not gonna sit here and pretend to be okay with strongly rumored mediocrity. you go ahead and do that if you want, but im gonna hold this movie to higher standards, as it should be.

You can concentrate on the facts or you can concentrate on rumors. It's up to you...

im taking both into consideration, as its all we have.

Congratulations, your sarcasm totally made your post so little constructive

but its entirely true and warranted.

A 14-pages script impression from amateurs. Of things happening before the starting-credits (that said, I highly doubt it's real because one does not describe as much as they claim this script does. That is for the director to interpit, in a script it's not spelled out like that. But that's just my guess).

what? do you even know what your talking about? the 14 pages was the opening scene of the movie. what is it describing that a script does not normally describe?

"So much"? You have a crazy rumor about a script and no cast. You know the director, you know it will have a budget north of 160 million dollar and you know it has some of the best producers one can get. Excactly what is all this "so much to imply"? Rumors about a teenage cast, wich is totally bogus? Rumors about a giant octopuss script? Please tell me. Do you see the cup as half-full, or just as almost empty? Writing what you do it sounds like yout far far far from anything optimistic. It's like the sun never shine where you live

im optimistic when i feel its warranted. im not gonna pretend to be happy about something when i dont like how it sounds. and so far, i havent heard much about this film to be very optimistic. and trust me, i want to be nothing more than optimistic about this film.

All in all, I hope this movie will be great. And there has been a lot of positive news about the movie, but idiotic rumors are overshadowing the good news and people are missing out on the fact that there is a lot of hope.

i hope its great too. and i hope all the idiotic rumors dont come to fruition.

 

[Maze]

I concur... when the hell was Ras ever even rumored?

Never ,in fact as weird as it sound.. Some people assumed that he was in the script because Patrick Sauriol said that the vilain mastermind had a three letters name had (sort of) already appeared in a dc superhero movie , and there was talia in the movie..

it could be Ras , it could be Lex , it could be Zod ..

Ras i dunno , Talia or not he was supposed to be the big twist of the movie so...

 

[Showtime]

i think too much is happening in before the opening credits, its going way too fast

You could look at that as 14 minutes, but it all depends on the sequence. If is a montage sequence you could be looking at half that time in some instances.

 

[Webhead2006]

i just dont know what to believe any more with this project. so much bull/rumors running around.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Never ,in fact as weird as it sound.. Some people assumed that he was in the script because Patrick Sauriol said that the vilain mastermind had a three letters name had (sort of) already appeared in a dc superhero movie , and there was talia in the movie..

it could be Ras , it could be Lex , it could be Zod ..

Ras i dunno , Talia or not he was supposed to be the big twist of the movie so...

I haven't been following all the developments but is this script you are referring to the 14 page thing that came up in this thread or some prior script/rumors that were leaked before this 14 page thing.

 

[Jake Cassidy]

How can all that **** happen in 14 pages? Must be some big ****ing pieces of paper.

 

[Maze]

I haven't been following all the developments but is this script you are referring to the 14 page thing that came up in this thread or some prior script/rumors that were leaked before this 14 page thing.

the script rumors before that one.

 

[Webhead2006]

so is the rumor now that the 14page thing that was confirmed to be fake earlier today now true again?

 

[Dotten]

and i dont hate everything about the movie. like you said, its got good producers and a good effects company.

I apologize for claiming that you hate everything about the movie. My mistake.

so then turning to the rumor side of things, sure they cant be fully trusted, but looking at what's been heard, im far from being impressed.

Almost everything we hear turns out to be bogus. So don't pay any attention to that, it will just tear down all hope.

im taking both into consideration, as its all we have.

With all the stupid rumors about this movie one should concentrate on the facts and not pay attention to rumors one week stating Welling is in, another he is out, then he is in. And then rumors about 20-years old playing Superman, then it's contradicted the next day as bull**** and so on. The rumors on this movie have been so far fetched and so bogus, it's taught us one thing: Don't listen to rumors, because there are clearly lots of people out there having the time of their life by throwing us bogus rumors. So let's base our impression on what we do know and not on bogus rumors (but hey, the rumors are fun to discuss. But don't let them have any impact on your thoughts about if this movie will be good or not. Leave that to the facts you know).

what? do you even know what your talking about? the 14 pages was the opening scene of the movie. what is it describing that a script does not normally describe?

A script does not go into detail. A scripts job is to leave most of the interpetation of what things looks like to the director and the people around him. The details in the supposed leaked script are far more then what's normal. That's basic script-writing. As someone else also pointed out in a post above.

i hope its great too. and i hope all the idiotic rumors dont come to fruition.

That we can agree on. And so far, most of the rumors has been proven wrong.

 

[Rogzilla]

Ok, I believe there is a certain amount of evidence to suggest that this script is in fact fake. Someone over at the IESB boards figured it all out.

The first real scoop on story details broke from Patrick Sauriol over at UGO.com. He used to write for Corona Coming Attractions back in the day, when that was THE place for movie news/gossip. This guy has an excellent track record and credibility. In his original scoop, he called Brother Eye the Red Eye by mistake. A few days later, he corrected his statement, saying that it was indeed called Brother Eye ( like the comics ) and he called it Red Eye because it has, well...a big red eye. It was a simple mistake.

Now this supposed script has references to the Red Eye...which sounds like someone read the original script synopsis, never bothered to read the corrections a few days later, and made this fan fic. In fact, the notion that the script also has details as to what things will look like ( like the Hall of Justice, etc ) is totally not how a real script writer would write...how things will look is not up to the scripters at all, it's up to the design team. Again, it all reads like fanfic.

So while I may be wrong and this all may be real ( I hope not ) I'd say those are some pretty big red flags there.

This is as good as an introduction as I could ask for! Well, OK it might not be ME per se but I am just going to feel good about myself and say it is! ^_^

Here is what I posted over at IESB. I think if you take a moment, think about all the information we know for a FACT, you will realize that something is rotton in Denmark.
I read Stephanie's article...I am still not buying it.

As discussed already, a script NEVER EVER has descriptions of effects.

In the plot brief from EW, they WOULD have mentioned them fighting an Evil Justice League over OMACs. They made it CLEAR that Superman would fight Batman as well as Wonder Woman. This is OFFICIAL. You would not do that if there were already evil twins!

The use of the name Redeye, which we know was due to a confusion with Partick over at Back Row's source.

As there was no announcement of new writers, a rewrite would still be the old writers...and they wouldn't change THAT much to not step on the toes. Now I don't know what exactly it was but I assume it was only Batman related and that is easy...rewrite Batman...tweak his bits. You don't throw out a script because of that. Espeically not something that, if done well, could be the highest grossing movie of 2009.

Also, as the choice to put the Crime Syndicate in would have been done at least month ago, wouldn't one of the insiders have given us a hint by now?

I also notice both resources are saying DC...not WB, not Miller, not from the production. They could be being lied too as well. Hear me out here. In this day and age, there are so many leaks it is crazy. Plus, they can be reported INSTANTLY. So if I was working on a movie like this and someone claimed to have found a script that wasn't real...I would tell everyone outside of the production it was. Keep people confused, questioning, in doubt. But that is just me and I like to screw with people's heads.

Those are my two cents. Fake fake fake fake fake.

Further to the Ra's rumors...it is possible. He may have been the villain in an eariler draft (which would make it clear how it was stepping on toes)...but then that would have been fixed, right? We know the villain is Max Lord. Perhaps it was going to be revealed that the villain was really Ra's but perhaps not. If they wanted a similar reveal, why not make the villain Vandal Savage? Who knows what it is? Perhaps it all tied into the "Empire" feature Patrick mentioned. We can only speculate but no matter how certain we are, until something is official, we can't know for sure.

 

[Maze]

so is the rumor now that the 14page thing that was confirmed to be fake earlier today now true again?

Yup ,the rumor is that the leaked proclamed fake is true t:

 

[The Guard]

Check it out. 14 pages of the JUSTICE LEAGUE script.

CARR (V.O.)
There are Gods among us. Beings with incredible power.

INT. MONITOR ROOM

A television screen, featuring SNAPPER CARR, talkshow host. We pull back to see more MONITORS and COMPUTER BANKS.

CARR (CONT’D)
Who are they? What causes them to help mankind? Despite their presence here, we may never know for certain. We know only what they’ve done for us in the past.

PAN around the room, circling a massive steel ROUNDTABLE, and several high-backed leather chairs.

A man is standing before the monitors, watching, obscuring the epic superhero footage onscreen.

CARR (CONT’D)
America’s Justice League has become a force unlike any the world has ever known. The league now boasts a roster that consists of the world’s greatest heroes. Superman, the last survivor of the planet Krypton. Princess Diana of the island nation of Themyscira, descendant of an ancient Amazonian tribe. The Green Lantern, who claims to be the last of an interstellar police corps. The Manhunter, sole survivor of an extinct Martian race, and The Flash, who patrols the Midwest.

DR. RAY PALMER, mid-thirties, thin and dark-haired, presses an intercom button on the MONITOR CONSOLE.

PALMER
Mr. O’Brian, could you take over the monitors, please?

CARR
If nothing else, it’s a comfort to know that if there are alien realms, and other worlds beyond our own, that not all of them are hostile.

EXT. DEEP SPACE

A beautiful blue and white PLANET hangs in space, resplendent, breathtaking. This is NEW GENESIS.

SOARING around it, we find a dark, industrial world. Massive FIREPITS can be seen raging, even from space.

EXT. ALIEN WORLD -- NIGHT

A MOUNTAIN RANGE of strange obsidian rock. Beyond it, an ALIEN CIVILIZATION rises from smokefilled canyons, the outlines of crude, organic superstructures. This world could be Hell. For now, we will call it APOKOLIPS.

EXT. PALATIAL GROUNDS -- NIGHT

An imposing PALACE of black stone. Armored sentries guard the gated entrance with spearlike weapons: PARADEMONS.

INT. DARKSEID'S PALACE, THRONE ROOM

Members of a ROYAL COURT. Massive metal doors YAWN OPEN, and a tall being in shimmering hooded robes enters, trailed by Parademons. The being moves toward the DAIS. He wears a silver HELM that obscures much of his face, which appears to be humanoid underneath. This is ORION.

From the base of the dais, KALIBAK, a squat, grayskinned, shaggy-haired creature of strange proportions, regards the ambassador with veiled disgust.
An Apokoliptan/New Genesian alien language will be invented for the film for all alien correspondence.

KALIBAK
(Alien subtitles)
The ambassador from New Genesis.

Orion gazes up at the stone THRONE, and the massive being seated there, shrouded in shadow. The chamber is tense.

ORION
(Alien subtitles)
Lord Uxas. As the emissary of New Genesis, I bear tidings from The Highfather and the council of peace.

Orion pauses, waiting. The alien ruler is silent.

ORION (CONT’D)
(Alien subtitles)
Your massing armadas have not gone unnoticed. Do not think to overstep your bounds, tyrant. You must understand; if you breach The Treaty, you will only destroy yourself in the process, and endanger your people.

The ruler shifts, taking notice of this last part.

ORION (CONT’D)
(Alien subtitles)
Do not underestimate our convictions.

DARKSEID rises. Even in sparse light, he is an awesome sight. Nine feet tall, grayskinned, with rough features that might as well be chisled from stone. Dark amber eyes burn into Orion from beneath a pronounced brow.

DARKSEID
(Alien subtitles)
The Highfather should have learned long ago not to make idle threats. He knows full well what I am capable of.

ORION
(Alien subtitles)
We have not forgotten your last aggressions against our world. But we are a peaceloving, and wish to remain so.

DARKSEID
(Alien subtitles)
Do you? Or is that solely the wish of your surrogate father?

ORION
(Alien subtitles)
It is the desire of New Genesis and her people. Shall I deliver a message to Highfather and the council?

Darkseid considers. Orion glares up at him, expectant.

DARKSEID
(Alien subtitles)
I have maintained the terms of The Treaty. I owe nothing more. You are no longer welcome here, Dog of War.

ORION
(Alien subtitles)
I will not be spoken to in such a manner!

DARKSEID
(Alien subtitles)
Then crawl back to your father, and inform him that he meddles in affairs he can no longer hope to control.

ORION
(Alien subtitles)
If that is your wish...

Orion turns on his heel and strides from the chamber. Darkseid watches him go. Kalibak notes his ruler’s contemplative look as the great throne room doors swing closed with the resounding clang of metal on stone.

INT. DARKSEID'S PERSONAL CHAMBERS

Sparse, rock-hewn. Littered with various TROPHIES and ARTIFACTS from other worlds. Kalibak enters, hesitant.

KALIBAK
(Alien subtitles)
Father?

DARKSEID (O.S.)
(Alien subtitles)
I have asked you not to address me in such a manner. Familiarity breeds weakness.

EXT. DARKSEID’S PALACE BALCONY -- NIGHT

Kalibak moves out onto a wide, curving overhang. Darkseid stands, looking down over his industrial kingdom. SMOKE from massive FACTORIES. PRISON COMPLEXES
and BARRACKS litter our view, along with a sprawling GHETTO.

KALIBAK
(Alien subtitles)
Can you believe The Highfather’s nerve, sending that brat in his stead?

DARKSEID
(Alien subtitles)
Hold your tongue, whelp, or I shall cut it out.

Kalibak falls silent.

DARKSEID (CONT’D)
(Alien subtitles)
It is unwise to underestimate the Gods. They are a proud race, and not entirely ignorant of our affairs. Nor of our current strategic weaknesses. We are yet vulnerable should they decide to invade.

KALIBAK
(Alien subtitles)
What do you intend to do?

Darkseid gazes up at the stars.

DARKSEID
(Alien subtitles)
There are yet dozens of worlds that will bear fruit. The occupation of the next will have to be hastened.

KALIBAK
(Alien subtitles)
Any departure we make will be seen as a violation of The Treaty. As a declaration of war against New Genesis itself.

Darkseid gazes out at distant firepits. Huge, manmade CRATERS in the earth, belching columns of FIRE and SMOKE.

DARKSEID
(Alien subtitles)
So be it. We've tarried too long as it is. My people are suffering needlessly, and we have grown weaker and complacent.

KALIBAK
(Alien subtitles)
Your will be done, then.

DARKSEID
(Alien subtitles)
Yes. It shall be.

Kalibak exits in supplication. Darkseid continues to peer out over his planet. As he contemplates the future, we move through his world, over manmade CANALS of molten metal. Ancient alien BARGES cruise through the air. Long lines of chained, emaciated SLAVES of various alien species are being driven through cramped ghetto streets.

EXT. APOKOLIPTAN SPACESCAPE

The bronze curve of the industrial planet. A gargantuan, ancient spacecraft breaks the surface of the atmosphere. An APOKOLIPTAN DESTROYER. With a burst of PHOTON DRIVE, the massive ship vanishes into the starswept cosmos.

Near the dissipating ION TRAIL, a figure in an armored ALIEN SPACESUIT hovers on an ancient COSMIC SLED.

Orion peers through the helm of his suit, thumbs a glowing control on the "handlebars" of the cosmic sled. A small box begins to GLOW, ALIEN HYEROGLYPHICS scrolling across its facing, which seems to be composed of LIQUID METAL. This is MOTHER BOX.

A PROJECTION appears before Orion. A shimmering, irridescent bearded man, clad in silver robes.

ORION
(Alien subtitles)
You were correct, Highfather. His forces have entered deep space.

HIGHFATHER
(Alien subtitles)
It was but a matter of time. It will be some time before we can marshall our own forces, and we cannot risk breaching The Treaty, regardless of his current action. However, the target world must be warned of his ambitions.

ORION
(Alien subtitles)
If that is what you desire, Father.

HIGHFATHER
(Alien subtitles)
I desire an end to this bloodshed. As Ambassador, you are uniquely suited to this task. The Source protect you, my son, and bring you safely home.

The Mother Box emits an escalating series of eerie PINGING NOISES. Before the cosmic sled, SPACE COLLAPSES ON ITSELF and then EXPLODES OUTWARD, revealing a SPIRALING ENERGY VORTEX. A WORMHOLE. Orion GUNS the propulsion system of the sled and ROCKETS into the vortex. We follow as long as we can, and then he is gone.

EXT. EARTH'S SPACESCAPE

We come out of a wormhole near Earth. It hangs before us in space, along with The Moon. Beautiful. Tranquil.

EXT. METROPOLIS -- DAY

The pinnacle of human achievement. Magnificent towers catch and reflect the brilliance of the sun. Ships dot the harbor, airplanes soar through the afternoon skies.

INT. DAILY PLANET NEWSROOM

A hanging row of monitors displays footage from newsreels around the world. We're moving past cubicles now. Busied, harried REPORTERS work the phones and computers. In one cubicle, a nameplate reads LOIS LANE, WORLD BEAT. We keep moving past desks, until we stop at the back of a tall, dark-haired man in a simple suit. The man’s phone rings.

CLARK (O.S.)
Clark Kent.

CLARK KENT is almost ageless, handsome and intelligent, with a quiet, stoic wisdom well beyond his 30-odd years.

PALMER
(Filtered)
It’s Palmer. Pesadilla is set to erupt.

CLARK
You're sure?

PALMER
Positive. There's been a major increase in seismic activities over the last few hours. Crater avalanches, even a few small tremors. O'Brian picked up the newsfeed just minutes ago. NATO is evacuating the Maltesian coastline as we speak. They simply weren't prepared.

CLARK
They never are. I'm on my way.

PALMER
(Filtered)
I'll contact the others.

CLARK
Thank you, Ray.

Clark hangs up his phone and rises, looking to the monitors above. Sure enough, on one of the monitors, the words: FIRST CORTO MALTESE ERUPTION IN A CENTURY are shown onscreen before Red Cross and NATO workers.

Clark begins moving through the bullpen, past coworkers, toward the exit. A group of REPORTERS approaches.

FIRST COWORKER
Kent! What did you think of-

CLARK
Not now. Excuse me, please.

Clark breaks into a jog as he exits. His coworkers watch him leave, confused and a little irritated.

INT. DAILY PLANET ROOF ACCESS STAIRWELL

The door opens and Clark jogs up the stairwell, removing his glasses. Another few steps, and he steps OFF the stairs. He's FLOATING up them. No...FLYING. Clark SOARS up the stairs, RIPPING open his shirt, revealing a familiar RED AND GOLD S-SHIELD on a field of bright blue.

EXT. DAILY PLANET ROOFTOP -- DAY

An iconic revolving gilded GLOBE. A blue and red BLUR BULLETS INTO THE SKIES, SUCKING CLOUDS INTO ITS WAKE. A tremendous SONIC BOOM echoes above Metropolis Harbor.

 

[The Guard]

INT. STUDIO APARTMENT

A man’s hand puts a small touch on an easel-mounted comic panel. KYLE RAYNER, mid-twenties, intelligent, handsome features, consults a bound comic book script.

KYLE
Oh, this is witty dialogue...

PALMER (O.S.)
(Filtered)
Rayner?

Unphased, Kyle keeps right on sketching the comic scene.

KYLE
Talk to me.

The small GREEN SIGNET RING on his right hand is PULSING with EERIE GREEN LIGHT in time to the caller’s words.

PALMER
(Via the ring)
Pesadilla is about to blow.

Pencil down. The ring has Kyle’s full attention now. He speaks into it as if it were a miniature microphone.

KYLE
Come again?

PALMER
(Via the ring)
Mount Pesadilla in the Corto Maltese.

KYLE
Just give me a minute to change.

PALMER
(Via the ring)
Can you contact West? He’s not answering his communicator.

KYLE
And we all know what that means...

Rising, Kyle looks down at his ring hand, concentrating. The ring begins to GLOW. And then, brilliant GREEN ENERGY WASHES OVER him. When the wave of power subsides, Kyle looks down at his hand. The ring CRACKLES with POWER.

EXT. KYLE'S APARTMENT COMPLEX -- DAY

Rows of apartment buildings. A brilliant green blur ROCKETS into the skies, BANKS and ACCELERATES out of the city, leaving a verdant POWER TRAIL behind it.

EXT. SUBURBS -- DAY

A middle-class Midwest suburb. The American Dream.

INT. WEST HOME

A YOUNG BOY bounces up and down on a man’s knee, faster than usual, laughing wildly. WALLY WEST, mid-twenties, red-haired and trim, stops bouncing his son, winded.

WALLY
All right...no more...Daddy's tired.

SON
One more time! One more time!

LINDA PARK, dark-haired and slender, enters with a glass of something alchoholic. A wedding band on her finger.

LINDA
Something to help you relax.

WALLY
You're an angel, Linda.

Their hands touch, Wally wearing an identical band. He takes the drink, just as the phone beside him RINGS.

LINDA
And...speak of the devil.

Still holding his son, Wally picks up the phone.

WALLY
Hello?

KYLE
(Filtered)
Suit up, Wally! I'm on my way over!

WALLY
You're breaking up-you on a cell phone?

KYLE
(Filtered)
No, it’s the ring! Isn't that great?

WALLY
Sure. You were saying-

KYLE
(Filtered)
The Corto Maltese is gonna pop! I'm coming to pick you up right now!

WALLY
How about I just meet you there?

KYLE
What?

WALLY
Race you.

Wally hangs up the phone and gazes at Linda and his son.

LINDA
Wally?

WALLY
I’ll be back as soon as I can.

Wally hands Linda their son. Takes a long look at both.

LINDA
Be careful.

Wally kisses her gently. Looks into her eyes and smiles.

WALLY
Back in a flash.

And then he’s gone. Linda turns on the television, FLIPS through channels. The volcano disaster is on several.

INT. APARMENT BUILDING

A COP watches an ambulance roll off outside the window.

COP
How can people do something like that to each other?

Beside him, DETECTIVE JOHN JONES, hardboiled, clad in a trenchcoat, studies the room, thinking. His pocket BUZZES, and Jones removes a small cell phone.

JONES
I need to get some air.

INT. APARTMENT BUILDING HALLWAY

Jones moves down the hall, looking around to make sure the coast is clear, and then steps RIGHT THROUGH A WALL.

INT. ADJACENT APARTMENT

In the dark, Jones grimaces as his skin begins to PULSE, STRETCH and DARKEN. We move down off his TRANSFORMATION, his coat beginning to FLOW. He’s not human...so what is he?
EXT. CORTO MALTESE -- DAY

A beautiful ISLAND COASTLINE. Fishing ships line the coast. A small VILLAGE is perched inland, and behind, a STEAMING VOLCANIC CONE, SMOKE and ASH streaming from it.

INT. MALTESIAN VILLAGE -- DAY

VILLAGERS run from their homes, shouting and screaming. A LITTLE GIRL of three DARTS through the confusion, terrified. Villagers STAMPEDE around her. But despite her fear, the girl stops and stares in absolute awe...

...at a beautiful, statuesque, raven-haired woman, silhouetted in the brilliant afternoon sun, DESCENDING Earthward. This is PRINCESS DIANA, regal in crimson and gold. Diana kneels until she is eye level with the child, a source of quiet calm amidst the chaos around them.

DIANA
(Maltesian subtitles)
Don't be afraid. It's going to be all right.

Diana looks to the smoking volcano. Then she gathers the girl in her arms and SOARS up and over the stampede.

EXT. OCEAN -- DAY

A red and gold BLUR streaks across the ocean, kicking up huge WAVES as it tears across the water's surface. The blur SKIDS to a stop on a hill overlooking the village amidst a cloud of dust, which clears to reveal THE FLASH, clad in formfitting, hooded crimson bodysuit with gold lightning bolt insignia. He peers up at the volcano.

EXT. SKYSCAPE -- DAY

Three figures SOAR through the skies. GREEN LANTERN, clad in a strange black suit with a luminous metallic green insignia and RADIATING AURA, J'ONN J'ONNZ, a darkly cloaked and armored semitransparent humanoid with dark green skin, pronounced brow and penetrating red embers for eyes, and SUPERMAN.

Superman pulls ahead of the others with a BURST OF SPEED and peers toward the island, his eyes GLAZING OVER with a strange film. He touches a small COMMLINK in his ear.

SUPERMAN
The gas pressure’s building, and the magma’s rising. We don’t have much time.

GREEN LANTERN
We can handle this little campfire.

J'onn Jonn'z FLIES after them. The volcano ERUPTS, and J'onn STOPS in his tracks in midair, HOVERING there, staring in horror at clouds of glowing, falling MAGMA.
Superman and Green Lantern SOAR in tandemn toward the volcano's peak, which has begun to ERUPT in earnest, shooting tons of MOLTEN ROCK into the skies.

INT. MALTESIAN VILLAGE -- DAY

Diana hands the little girl to a NATO WORKER. Behind her, the volcano ERUPTS, and Diana turns and SOARS OFF.

EXT. CHURCH ROOFTOP -- DAY

J'onn DESCENDS, landing on the steeple. Perched, he peers down into the chaos on the village streets. Villagers are TRAMPLING each other in an effort to escape the impending lava flow. J'onn puts a hand to his brow, pained.

J'ONN
(Telepathic link)
Diana...

INT. MALTESIAN VILLAGE -- DAY

Diana FLIES over a mass of stampeding villagers.

J’ONN
(Telepathic link)
They are going to harm each other.

Diana SLAMS to the street before the stampede, glaring at approaching villagers. Most of them stop in their tracks.

J’ONN (CONT’D)
(Telepathic link)
Flash, how is your search proceeding?

INT. MALTESIAN HOMES -- CONTINUOUS

The Flash STREAKS from home to home, searching for stragglers. He puts a hand to a golden earpiece and taps a stud at the base, activating his communicator.

THE FLASH
Found a few stragglers and dropped them off. About a third of the village to go.

INT. MALTESIAN VILLAGE STREET -- DAY

Diana helps a YOUNG GIRL, who has fallen, to her feet.

DIANA
J’onn, can you calm this crowd?

EXT. CHURCH ROOFTOP -- DAY

J’onn perches, concentrating, almost transfixed.

J'ONN
(Telepathic link)
It is...difficult to maintain focus with so much emotional turmoil down there.

A CHAOS OF GARBLED THOUGHTS reaches him TELEPATHICALLY. The volcano ERUPTS again, and the VOICES in his head grow LOUDER. The sound blends to a loud WALL OF PSYCHIC NOISE. J’onn grimaces, fighting to maintain his concentration.

J'ONN (CONT’D)
(Telepathic link)
Lantern. Can you divert some of the lava?

GREEN LANTERN (O.S.)
(Telepathic link)
You read my mind.

J'ONN
(Telepathic link)
I assure you, it was unintentional.

GREEN LANTERN
(Telepathic link)
It was a joke.

J'ONN
(Telepathic link)
I see. And levity is appropriate now?

EXT. VOLCANO PEAK -- DAY

Hovering over the volcano, Green Lantern aims his ring. RADIANT GREEN LIGHT STREAMS FORTH, SLAMMING into the base of the mountain, throwing up chunks of DIRT and ROCK, COALESCING LIGHT from the ring forming into a massive BURROWING MECHANISM, which begins CARVING a huge TRENCH.

Superman SLAMS to the ground in front of the village side of the trench as lava CASCADES down, filling the trench rapidly. He scans the area, draws a deep breath, and BLOWS. Chilling SUPERBREATH envelops lava, SUPERCOOLING the molten rock, forming a crude RETAINING WALL at the base of the volcano. The volcano ERUPTS again. Superman looks up and sees more lava cascading down the slope. He rises into the air near Green Lantern and watches lava begin to inch toward the top of the retaining wall.

GREEN LANTERN
Can't you just throw the whole thing into space or something?

SUPERMAN
That's not nearly as easy as it sounds. And it happens to be surrounded by a few thousand tons of water.

Something occurs to him. SCREAMS ECHO from the village. Superman looks back toward the village, concerned.

GREEN LANTERN
I'm sure the others can handle it. Look, I'll take care of the lava. You just knock this sucker out.

Superman looks at Lantern for a moment, then SOARS OFF.

EXT. VOLCANO PEAK -- DAY

Through rising SMOKE, Green Lantern points his ring at the volcano. GREEN LIGHT STREAMS FORTH in WAVES, COALESCING around the volcano's peak...

And...14 pages are up.

Anyone else notice how, while, some cool things happened in those pages, NOT A WHOLE LOT actually happened in those pages? And those are 14 WORD pages, not script pages.

I'm not buying that the professionally written JUSTICE LEAGUE script packs all that we've heard described into 14 pages. I just don't see professional writers doing that.

 

[Motown Marvel]

A script does not go into detail. A scripts job is to leave most of the interpetation of what things looks like to the director and the people around him. The details in the supposed leaked script are far more then what's normal. That's basic script-writing. As someone else also pointed out in a post above.

actually, uh, thats not entirely true. the amount of detail in a script is entirely dependant on the writer and whatever style they write in. some writers are very detailed, others not so much. some will say "and then a great battle is waged between the cowboys and the indians" others will go into great detail describing how the battle plays out. and nothing mentioned in the review made anything sound overly detailed or out of the ordinary. and mind you, this is coming from someone who has studied screenwriting, read many many screenplays, and has written many himself. i know a thing or two about screenwriting.

 

[Lobo]

Yup ,the rumor is that the leaked proclamed fake is true t:

^What are the odds that tomorrow it's fake again?