Official Justice League Status Update Thread

[Webhead2006]

Yea now with the film given its finale nail in the coffin it would be nice if miller and the cast came out and told us how they where planning to do the film and what was the direction/look for the film.

 

[TheVileOne]

I don't see why that's so important at this point.

I think its ridiculous to do Green Lantern starring Hal Jordan and JL starring John Stewart. It makes no sense.

 

[Webhead2006]

well it doesnt matter now that jla is officially dead whos to say if/when jla does indeed happen within now probably 8-10yrs from now which does suck its likely to be that long now which gl will be in the film.

 

[FaT_tONle]

I don't see why that's so important at this point.

I think its ridiculous to do Green Lantern starring Hal Jordan and JL starring John Stewart. It makes no sense.

Well if Hal has a succesful franchise he can stay there by himself. Stewart could be a side character who steps in for JLA... maybe give Hal a cameo or guest appearance. That way you don't kill the budget on cast. Kind of like Norton and Avengers... I am sure they'd have an easier time bringing him back for a sequel unless he is willing to take the pay cut needed for Avengers... which I am not banking on despite what LL has said on Norton's involvement in Avengers.

 

[TheVileOne]

If a series of Hal Jordan character is successful, and the point is to make the movies intersect, then stack the deck in your favor.

Now that Iron Man's successful, how about make Avengers starring Terence Howard as War Machine so they will have a black guy in the group and make Rhodey War Machine/Iron Man the side character.

 

[jmc]

Hey folks, there was just an interview with Megan Gale on Aussie TV, the interview was clearly done before the latest news from WB, not much was said about JL but apparently she wasn't even thinking about a move to acting at the time, and, here's the interesting part, George Miller is the one who called Megan Gale out of the blue and offered her an audition for JL. So the recent statement by George Miller stating they didn't expect much from Gale's audition is a load of crap, it seems he had an eye on Gale from the beginning.

 

[Showtime]

Why am I not suprised for one second.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Hey folks, there was just an interview with Megan Gale on Aussie TV, the interview was clearly done before the latest news from WB, not much was said about JL but apparently she wasn't even thinking about a move to acting at the time, and, here's the interesting part, George Miller is the one who called Megan Gale out of the blue and offered her an audition for JL. So the recent statement by George Miller stating they didn't expect much from Gale's audition is a load of crap, it seems he had an eye on Gale from the beginning.

So she's not into acting anymore?

 

[BATZARRO WWD]

Yeah, I guess Justice League will likely never happen now. Warner will likely screw Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, The Superman Reboot or the third Batman then they'll scare themselves with they're own suckiness and not make a Justice League film . FIN.

Phillistines...

 

[Dark Knight]

FINALLY....this thread has been moved to the appropriate place....

 

[The Major]

So she's not into acting anymore?

Gale was only into acting once WB came calling.

Some WW.

 

[biolumen]

Gale was only into acting once WB came calling.

Some WW.

According to her, she had just quit the catwalk and was starting to prepare herself for tackling Hollywood when the call from Miller's office came.

ANDREW DENTON: You’ve signed up to do Wonder Woman in a George Miller film Justice League.

MEGAN GALE: Ooh yeah.

ANDREW DENTON: Ah they’re big shiny boots to fill. Does that make you nervous?

MEGAN GALE: Oh no. I quite look forward to that. It still makes my head spin to think about how all that happened cause it happened very rapidly and I had no idea that was coming at all.

ANDREW DENTON: How did it happen?

MEGAN GALE: Oh gosh. Well it was a funny time actually because it was September of last year and I’d just decided that I was going to retire from modelling from the catwalk and I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do next. So I was in the process of getting a lot of the material together from Italy and stuff I had done in Australia and trying to put a show reel together and trying to prepare myself to think about tackling LA when I get a call and it’s from a casting agent saying George Miller wants to see you for an audition for a film he’s doing. And I was like oh okay.

MEGAN GALE: Then I said what’s it for. They said we can’t tell you anything about the film. I said okay well what’s the role. We can’t tell you anything about that. I said okay so and I so when I initially went to the first reading.

ANDREW DENTON: And before this you’re thinking Babe 3, that bastard.

Laughter

MEGAN GALE: Exactly. But I had no because it was all so top secret this film that I had no idea of what I was going for and while I was getting ready though and this is the weird thing is that I had the words Wonder Woman just go across my mind and I have no explanation why and then I went to the casting about an hour later, I went to the audition and they sat down and they said so you know nothing about the film. I said no I don’t I don’t know anything. They said okay well it’s a movie and it’s about all the superheros and I said right. I said am I here for Wonder Woman and she went yeah you are. It was like oh.

ANDREW DENTON: Wow.

MEGAN GALE: This is bizarre.

ANDREW DENTON: Why have you always loved her?

MEGAN GALE: Because she was just that epitome of she was powerful and she was strong and she was kind and she was gentle and she was nurturing and had a maternal side to her and just had all the ideal qualities of being that that perfect ideal woman.

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s2343589.htm

 

[The Major]

Bio:

Okay.

 

[TheVileOne]

Gentlemen, it's called the casting couch. Google it. Miller probably had his eye on a lot more than her as Wonder Woman .

 

[Nina7]

So, he cast a model with no acting experience for Wonder Woman? Thank God Miller and his version of the Justice League is dead.

 

[Evil Twin]

How much acting experience did Tina Turner have before Thunderdome? That's probably the best comp.

 

[The Major]

How much acting experience did Tina Turner have before Thunderdome? That's probably the best comp.

It isn't that simple. Not all people are born with the same skills or levels of skills even with good training.

Just because Turner did well not mean Gale will.

Turner wasn't the star of Mad Max, didn't play an action hero on Superman's scale whose as skilled as Batman in combat or a decades old icon. Gale will be playing all three as WW if she becomes the lead.

 

[Showtime]

How much acting experience did Tina Turner have before Thunderdome? That's probably the best comp.

Wait what? Did I miss the part of my life where Tina Turner was considering a good actress?

 

[bunk]

Wait what? Did I miss the part of my life where Tina Turner was considering a good actress?

Well if that occurred, it was in between blinks of the eye... so yes, probably.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Gentlemen, it's called the casting couch. Google it. Miller probably had his eye on a lot more than her as Wonder Woman .

But she has bigfoot hands

 

[TheVileOne]

Miller might be into that.

 

[Showtime]

I wonder what Dnno1's thoughts are on this.

 

[Evil Twin]

It isn't that simple. Not all people are born with the same skills or levels of skills even with good training.

Just because Turner did well not mean Gale will.

Turner wasn't the star of Mad Max, didn't play an action hero on Superman's scale whose as skilled as Batman in combat or a decades old icon. Gale will be playing all three as WW if she becomes the lead.

I agree, we don't know if she would be any good. OTOH, some are natural talents or fit a part to a tee. Bette Midler was an Oscar nominee her first time out of the gate. I can think of several models turned actresses that have had fine careers and won an award or two.

I don't get the obsession with nitpicking every little decision that George Miller made when we a) never saw the auditions, b) never read the script or read a full scale, thorough review of the script, and c) saw none of the preproduction work. It might have been a disaster, every director has a Hook in them, but Miller also has enough of a track record that he may have had a vision that would have surprised all of us. Who here ever thought a talking pig movie would be nominated for Best Picture in our lifetimes?

I think at this point it's clear that this is a dead issue. And I look forward to someone doing a thorough spy report on this eventually so that we all aren't talking out our ass about it.

 

[Mercurius]

Megan Megan Megan Gale (Joker's voice).

 

[Webhead2006]

Well if its true wb is now trying the solo route first and maybe small connections in said solo films like marvel we will likely now not see jla untill like 2013-2015 time frame. Cause its looking like gl and/or ga for 2010, batman 3 and supes reboot for 2011, and then ww/flash for 2012-2013 range.