Justice League movie

[Hector]

Deborah Snyder (producer and Zack's wife) confirmed Justice League will be more appropriate for younger children than BvS.

Looks like they are going to ease up on the gloom and doom...and inject a more lighthearted approach...one sample...Bruce and Barry throwing down some humor (actual footage of this was actually shown to a test audience).

Steppenwolf will be the main villain.

There will be a glimpse of a Mother Box in BvS during Cyborg’s brief scene. In Justice League, there are three Mother Boxes — one possessed by humans, one possessed by Atlanteans, one possessed by Amazonians — and this seems to be what Steppenwolf is after.

The first half of the movie will be about Batman putting the team together, trying to find these metahumans he learned about in BvS. Batman needs their help because Superman is still dead (for now) and Batman has pieced together that Steppenwolf (who has not been cast yet, but we were told that it’s close) and an army of Parademons will soon be invading Earth. (Steppenwolf is official, but we didn’t see any hint of what he might look like. Maybe they don’t know for sure yet either, but he’s for sure the villain.)

We see a glimpse of a Mother Box in Bvs during Cyborg’s brief scene. In Justice League, there are three Mother Boxes — one possessed by humans, one possessed by Atlanteans, one possessed by Amazonians — and this seems to be what Steppenwolf is after. (I got to pick up one of these boxes. My life didn’t really change much one way or another after.) And there are hints that this all sets up the appearance of Darkseid, which will probably surprise no one.

Warner Brothers official synopsis:

Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy (Steppenwolf). Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions...

Your thoughts...

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/just-visited-london-set-justice-134501089.html

P.S. Not liking Flash's description of his suit...hope it's just a prototype...and maybe Bruce (Lucious Fox?) fixes him up with a more traditional one...like Stark did to Spidey. Derivative much?

[Hector]

Oh good, a more traditional Flash costume has been spotted in the Justice League workshop...

[PNGwynne]

Hmmm. We'll see.

I'm curious, why Steppenwolf and not Darkseid, unless they want to save him for later in a multi-film story-arc?

[Hector]

Probably ^^^

[kingdom warrior]

The Aquaman suit looks interesting.....

[emeraldknight47]

With probably a billion (or more with tweaking) typefaces/fonts at their disposal, the best that WB/DC could come up with for a JL logo is this...?



Not the worst I've seen (that, unfortunately, goes to the new Spider-Man solo movie logo/typeface), but from a design standpoint, this seems to lack any real pizzazz...

[samurainoir]

[Boy_Wonder_1978]

I read an article yesterday from one of the reporters that were allowed on set. He explained that at the end of the day that they were shown footage from the film. He went on to explain a scene where Bruce Wayne goes to visit Barry Allen and asks him to join up. Barry denies being The Flash (with his suit lying in the middle of the room), but Bruce takes out a Batarang and throws it at Barry. He catches the Batarang saying/ asking 'you're Batman'. The rest of what I read is a little fuzzy, so I won't say things here that I'm not sure of. The one thing that I can remember reading is at the end of this scene Barry holds up the Batarang and asks 'can I keep this?'.

My only thoughts at the minute are if they get the tone and balance right, is that it could become something special. Time will tell.

[Earth 2 Chris]

This sounds encouraging, but I'm going to reserve judgement until my butt is in the theater seat. BvS also seemed to be learning lessons from MoS, but instead cranked up it's problems to 11.

Chris

[MIB41]

I'll preface my comments first by saying I still haven't seen BVS, so when it is made available on DVD, I'll sit down and give it a watch. That being said, I'm just not a big fan of Zach Snyder's work. I thought he was ideal for Watchmen because that story fit his style. But I never thought he would make a good director for a film that championed the subject of heroes in a traditional format. It's just not him. He is very much a person that likes breaking down the hero into this psychological complex that makes them ambiguous in purpose and even resentful of owning the responsibility. It doesn't fit well with the traditional superhero framework because his characters are so unlikable, they barely resemble the icons we are there to champion. It's just an endurance contest to sit through these films. Man of Steel made me miserable because Snyder didn't want to tell that traditional story. He wanted to coat it with his pessimistic attitudes which just took all the redeeming qualities away from this hero. Seeing that same treatment being applied from the trailers in BVS kept me away. Reading the reviews really kept me away. But like any fan of this genre, eventually you have to take the plunge and officially decide for yourself what each film is worth. So I will eventually make my dutiful march to the video store and rent a copy.

That being said, I laugh out loud at this new marketing ploy that the Justice League will be more "kid friendly". They say this while simultaneously promoting the rated R directors cut of BVS. I just shake my head at the hypocrisy of it all. That's what I call classic damage control. The studio is going to take a director who doesn't know the first thing about injecting charm and humor into this genre and suddenly he's going to make a family film? Give me a break. That's like saying Rob Zombie is making the next Care Bear feature. Right... They can change the tone all they want, but it's still Snyder behind the lens yearning to tweak it to his vision. That approach also means he will have to become a much better story teller which has never been a strong point for him. If Snyder were an artist illustrating a comic, every other rendering would be a splash page with minimal dialogue or plot points. These movies require an emotional investment from the director in the characters and I don't see Snyder finding that connection just because the studio is dictating a tonal change. Rant of skepticism concluded.

[Spyweb007]

Sometimes less is more when it comes to a logo, but that logo does not seem to fit with the colorful comic book super heroes Justice League theme at all, very un-inspired. Seven team members, seven letters in the word "Justice", might have been cool to do something using each hero's colors in the logo, or at least some color or metal look for the letters.

[cjefferys]

I'm curious, why Steppenwolf and not Darkseid, unless they want to save him for later in a multi-film story-arc?

Probably, like what Marvel is doing with Thanos. We'll probably get a little Darkseid cameo in a mid credits sequence at the end. (sound familiar?)

[Operation:Mego]

“You really had to dig down on the darker parts of them to make them fight each other. I really do believe that with this movie, with Justice League, they’ve been freed of the responsibility to be in a place where they would fight each other. That’s liberating for us in making the movie, because now we have a single enemy with a single objective, and it’s really about uniting the team. That, to me, is a fun activity.”

http://www.vulture.com/2016/06/zack-snyder-set-justice-league.html

[libby 1957dog]

Sometimes less is more when it comes to a logo, but that logo does not seem to fit with the colorful comic book super heroes Justice League theme at all, very un-inspired. Seven team members, seven letters in the word "Justice", might have been cool to do something using each hero's colors in the logo, or at least some color or metal look for the letters.

not sure if this is official or a fan edit but been seeing it posted around the sideshow boards ,i think this works better

[Hector]

"Twenty-three-year-old Ezra Miller has heretofore been best known for indie films like We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Stanford Prison Experiment; a famously free spirit, he talks casually about his bisexuality, eschews deodorant, and once waltzed into a film festival party wearing a fur coat and no shirt underneath. As the Flash in Justice League, he has been shorn of the long hair and scraggly goatee that he usually favors, but crucially, Snyder encouraged him to keep his live-wire charm."

Good grief, I really hate that little pretentious millennial hipster...