Hey Mods? How about you move this to the Movies/TV Section? The title of the film has been revealed...
Justice League movie 'will resume filming next year' says director
By David Bentley on Aug 5, 08 01:11 PM in Hot rumours
IT MAY be called Justice League Mortal but it's still very much alive, according to director George Miller.
Miller, who also helmed Oscar-winning animated movie Happy Feet, says production on the troubled DC comics superhero team-up movie - earlier said to have been shelved - will restart next year, but not in Australia where the project failed to get vital tax concessions.
He added that he was dazzled by the audition given by Aussie supermodel Megan Gale (pictured above), who was chosen to play Wonder Woman in the movie. He is convinced she is perfect for the role of the Amazon princess.
The 5ft 10ins fashion model apparently "blitzed the opposition", Miller told Australia's Herald Sun newspaper.
"She got the job because she blitzed her screen test. I mean, I had no idea she was so good," Miller said.
"She walked into our office in Sydney and read the part. She has done some Italian movies, but I didn't think she would be as good as she was. But once she read we all looked around at each other and said, 'Well, there's no question'."
Miller (right) revealed that the 32-year-old 'glamazon' had only a few hours of acting training before her audition.
Justice League Mortal had been slated to be filmed in Australia Miller conceded production had been moved offshore, with a plan to resume filming next year.
In June, trade magazine Variety had reported: "The studio [Warner Bros] is likely to revisit a gross deal it made a long time ago for director George Miller to direct Justice League, expected to go into production soon."
In the film, Wonder Woman and the other Justice League members - Superman, Batman, Aquaman, Flash, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter - join forces to stop evil businessman Maxwell Lord, who has mind-control powers. In the comicbooks, Lord died but he was resurrected when his consciousness was downloaded into a robot.
Canadian actor Jay Baruchel (left), rumoured to be playing a young version of Maxwell Lord, or one of his henchmen, has just told a Canadian movie website he was keen for the movie to go ahead.
"I really, really hope it happens. It was the coolest thing in the world for a nerd like me," says 26-year-old Baruchel, who is best known from last year's Knocked Up, Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby and the TV series Undeclared. "It was going to be awesome."
"Everyone on the internet was hating our movie," Baruchel says, responding to fanboy fears about the project's lack of major stars and the fact it would have cast a new Batman and Superman rather than featuring Christian Bale (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) and Brandon Routh (Superman Returns). "But you know us cast members were psyched that everybody was gunning for us because it would have only meant people would have been blown away that much more. We knew the bulk of the detractors would have been silenced."
