Caffeinated Clint
The ending likened to “The Empire Strikes Back”?
There’s probably only two questions – well, besides the ‘Fuck! Why?’ – film fans want answered about the upcoming “Justice League of America” movie – 1) Who will be play the superhero troupe? 2) What’s the story?
Whilst only Jessica Biel has been confirmed to be one of our tight-wearing wonder children, disappointing those anxious to know who’ll play the rest of the gang, Patrick over at UGO has uncovered some storyline details about the film.
Here’s the gist of it (Beware : Spoilers)
— The characters of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash and Martian Manhunter comprise the League. One name that I did not hear mentioned was that of Aquaman. Where’d the fish guy go? Good question.
— Story elements from the screenplay have been adapted directly from DC’s JLA comic book series.
— The man wearing the Green Lantern ring in the JLA film is John Stewart and not Hal Jordan (Earth’s first Green Lantern) or Kyle Rayner (who followed after Stewart’s run in the comic book continuity.) It should be noted that in the Justice League cartoon series John Stewart is the same character serving as Earth’s Green Lantern.
— The Flash is the youngest member of the JLA. He has a crush on Wonder Woman.
— Wonder Woman is portrayed as the member that acts as defacto humanitarian and face for the League. Our source told us that the best way to describe how she is written in the script is to “think of Angelina Jolie and her relations with foreign countries.”
— Unbeknownst to the League Batman has a piece of technology that he developed called the “Redeye”, a cool piece of hardware that he can use to spy unbeknownst on the other League members. Want to know what the secret identity of Superman is? Not a problem. Want to find out what can cripple or kill each League member, their Achilles heel? It’s a snap with the Redeye. Batman files away the knowledge in case the day might ever come when he will need to use it to take down a member of the JLA that goes rogue or becomes a villain.
— The Redeye is a fulcrum to the events that transpire in the movie. A villain—and I’m not at liberty to say which specific one or ones—will gain control of the Redeye. Instead of serving as a means of protecting the planet’s populace from the threat of a superhuman out of control, this creation of Batman’s will come back to haunt him, threaten the lives of the League and the safety of everyone on the entire planet.
— During the course of the movie the day that Batman feared would come happens: a member of the League will, and we directly quote our source here, “go bad.”
It should also be said at this point that there is at least one major twist in the story that I’m not going to blow because I deem it an Empire spoiler. For those out there that don’t get my reference, imagine it’s 1979, the internet exists and you’re reading rumors about the new Star Wars sequel called The Empire Strikes Back. There’s some new guy called Lando, there’s a big battle on a snow planet, Luke meets up with another Jedi and Darth Vader says something to Luke near the end of the picture. Sure, those are all spoilers but if I came out and said what Vader told Luke? That’s an “Empire”. What’s in the box that Brad Pitt holds in the final ten minutes of Seven is an Empire. Kevin Spacey’s change of footwork at the end of The Usual Suspects is another Empire. Got it? Good.
Hmmm. So they’re going to have Nicholas Hammond reprise his role as Spider-Man… as the film’s big bad? He’s on a whole ‘Marvel VS. DC’ Vendetta.
