Justice League

Yeah, Batman become Warner safe spot when it come to movies which made them play safe right now, the closet thing Marvel have to that is Tony stark who have 3 movies, big role in AOU and Civil war and now it will apear in Spiderman but even them is not even close to the love boner Wolverine or Batman got.

So I came across this video made by Jason Momoa about his passion, life and family. A great video, rather emotional, but it also has what looks like a couple glimpses of Justice League. Specifically some shots while filming in Iceland.

It seems like Black Adam is getting a solo movie. [1]

You can't contain the Rock!

I was hoping he would. Black Adam is a really interesting character, but one who often gets the two dimensional treatment in adaptations. If he's getting his own movie, it's safe to say his film version will be more nuanced.

I actually thought that Shazam was going to be a Black Adam origin movie where he was the hero. Then in the sequel he would be the villain and Captain Marvel/Shazam would be the hero in the sequels.

The Black Adam concept art looks great◊.

if the rock is going to be black adam, them the movie is going to show him in is most anti-hero or more sympathic role, after all the Rock like Will smith is not the one who used to overly villian chararters.

Hal Jordan shortlist. Bradley Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Cruise, Armie Hammer, Ryan Reynolds and Joel McHale are all being looked at.

They want to bring Reynolds back? That's an odd choice.

In the past Reynolds had already said there was no chance in hell of him doing another Green Lantern, so it's probably just a formality.

I'd go with Armie Hammer. Their mistake in casting Ryan Reynolds was in not committing to the character one way or another, and I feel like Hammer can play stoic and deadly/comically serious well. Those other guys, not so much.

If they'd gone full-on Kyle Rayner (even if the character was still Hal Jordan, but in name only), that would've played way more to Reynolds' strengths. And I'd still kind of like to see Reynolds as the cartoonist/animator-turned-Lantern. That could really work, I think.

edited 20th Jan '17 4:16:15 PM by Unsung

If they do eventually use Kyle I imagine they'd get someone Latin to play him. Reynolds has also aged out of the inexperienced kid range, I'd think.

edited 20th Jan '17 1:26:03 PM by comicwriter

I also think their interest in bringing back Reynolds as Hal is questionable.

It's also not happening since Reynolds is too preoccupied basking in the gloriously awesome fact that he's playing his personal favorite comic book character.

Yeah, I always wanted him to play Deadpool anyway, but if they were going to have him play the Green Lantern, Hal was completely the wrong choice.

I'd still kinda like to see him play Kyle, but yeah, it's too late, and no, he never did look the part.

I think Reynolds could have pulled off Giffen/ De Matteis era Guy Gardner.

I would like to see Joel Mc Hale as a Green lantern.

While I'd like to see Joel Mc Hale as a superhero, I don't know if it would be any of the Lanterns. Booster Gold seems like the obvious one to offer him.

He would've made a good Flash, actually. The original, older Barry Allen, or the version of Wally West from the DCAU.

edited 20th Jan '17 9:53:30 PM by Unsung

See, Joel McHale plays smarmy really well, so you need a smarmy superhero for him to play. Booster Gold would be good.

If true, I imagine Reynolds being under consideration is a formality because of his contract. They call it "Right of First Refusal" or something like that. It's a similar thing where George Miller is credited as a Justice League producer. For what it's worth, while Reynolds expressed some bitter feelings about the movie, he did say he would be interested in returning if the script was right. A Deleted Scene in Deadpool had an extended bit where Deadpool talked about the inevitable Troubled Production that would come with him making a super hero movie, from rushing production to animating the suit "like it's a Saturday morning cartoon!"

Funny thing is that Armie Hammer has been put on a number of these lists and I can't help but feel like he's someone Hollywood wants to succeed but doesn't quite have the chops as a leading actor. I thought he did fine in the movies I've seen him in (Social Network and Birth of a Nation primarily) but haven't considered him as A-list potential.

He seems like a fine actor whose agents keep making horrendously bad career choices.

Hammer has, so far, done really well in dramatic films where he's part of an ensemble cast (The Social Network, J.Edgar, Birth of a Nation). As far as the action movie/ franchise films, it's not that he isn't good in them, it's that the films he's been in either aren't great or haven't done very well, or both. So I'd say yeah, either he or his agent or both don't really have a good feel for picking popcorn roles.

It would have been funny if Hammer had actually gotten to play Batman, given that his family used to live next door to the mansion which served as the exterior for Stately Wayne Manor in the 60's Batman TV show.

edited 21st Jan '17 11:03:42 AM by Robbery

He was pretty good in The Man from UNCLE.

Whatever their problems and despite not performing well, The Lone Ranger and Man from UNCLE were both reasonably ambitious as action movies go. They also call for that classically square-jawed leading man of early 20th Century Hollywood, and that as much as anything is what Hammer has going for him. He'd have made a good Adam West-type Batman, I think— he plays squeaky-clean and insufferably smug equally well. He'd do best with a more old-fashioned kind of superhero, and I think Hal could be that.

edited 21st Jan '17 1:58:36 PM by Unsung

We got a writer for Shazam!