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May 26, 2015: Documentary to Examine Abandoned Justice League Movie
Posted by Neil Cole
A new documentary is currently in the works which will take an in depth look at director George Miller's abandoned 2009 film "Justice League: Mortal".
According to the Hollywood Reporter, filmmakers Ryan Unicomb, Aaron Cater and Steven Caldwell will take on the project which is tentatively titled "Miller's Justice League Mortal".
"We wanted to get the story out there to help us to gauge interest," says Unicomb, who has directed a number of short films including Gifted, co-directed with Jordan Bailey, which followed the rise and fall of the world’s first superhero, Guardian.
"I have always been fascinated with the project, which would be in the same vein as 2013’s Jodorowsky's Dune and this year's The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?, about a Superman movie that Tim Burton was to direct in the 1990s."
Miller ("Mad Max", "Happy Feet") was in the process of developing "Justice League: Mortal" in 2007 with a script by Kieran and Michele Mulroney. The film was set to star D.J. Cotrona as Superman/Clark Kent, Armie Hammer as Batman, Adam Brody as Barry Allen/The Flash, rapper Common as John Stewart/Green Lantern, and Australian model Megan Gale as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman.
Warner Bros. ultimately shut down the project in 2008 citing a lack of tax breaks and the writer's strike as the main reasons it pulled the plug.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
