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oh boy

i laughed hard when i saw brett ratner show up.


please warner bros, hire him.

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i really love the ben affleck director suggestion he is exactly the type of director we need if we cant get nolan for JL

ben is a phenomenal director and reviews have been extremely positive for his new film Argo coming out of Toronto Film Festival

on top of that he is also a great writer

If I had to pick a person it'd be Snyder. Nolan is the last person I want directing JL.

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i'd prefer snyder to focus on mos franchise

dont want to put everything on him

The last person.................

You really didn't find anything good at all with what he did with Batman ? Like.......nothing ?

If somebody asked me who I would consider for "last" person I would want directing the JL movie, I would probably say...........Uwe Boll, Michael Bay, the Farrelly bros.

You get the point.

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For lack of a better option, I went ahead and moved all the JLA speculation to this old thread. To the matter at hand...

I respect the hell out of Ben Affleck as a director, but he doesn't have nearly enough geek cred to pull this project off. One of the smartest things that Marvel did when choosing a director for Avengers was to hire a man who could fill Hall H by himself.

It's a rare thing to find someone who's geeky enough to be entrusted with such a huge comic book project while also being talented enough to make a good movie. Guillermo del Toro and James Cameron are probably foremost among them, but I really don't think either of them would be interested.

The Wachowskis might be a decent option, if they just let someone else write the script. Alternatively, they might just bring in James McTeigue instead.

Zack Snyder is the obvious choice -- would WB offer him the gig if Man of Steel does well?

Perhaps Gareth Edwards could get around to it after he's done with Godzilla?

I sincerely hope that we can rule out Michael Bay, Brett Ratner, Mark Steven Johnson, Len Wiseman, and Paul W.S. Anderson. We can rule out Martin Campbell as well: No way WB will let him back into the DCU after Green Lantern.

*snaps fingers* I've got it! Brad Bird. He's got geek cred, he's a talented director, his last globe-spanning action blockbuster grossed $694 million worldwide, he has no previous ties to Marvel... he's got it all!

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This is truly a madhouse. And I'm the lunatic running it. I've spent three years wondering if I should be proud or ashamed.

Okay, first, remind me later to teach you the meaning of the word "Hyperbole"

Second, there are people who can handled some properties but not others. For example, Steve Dillon. His art style is perfect for things like Preacher and Punisher, but would you want to see his pencils on a monthly Dr. Strange Book? Or even an Avengers Book? The same can be said of Nolan, he can do things with Batman that he would try to do with Justice League... and that just wouldn't work.



Well, other than the fact that he made the best Fantastic Four movie ever made

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no faith in his versatility visually inception looks nothing like tdk trilogy

Point of interest: Nolan has steadfastly refused to construct superhero films in a shared universe. He was very insistent that his Batman movies exist independent of the DCU.

With that in mind, I find it supremely unlikely that Nolan would know how to do a JLA movie properly, even if he wanted to.

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This is truly a madhouse. And I'm the lunatic running it. I've spent three years wondering if I should be proud or ashamed.

This is pretty much what I'm saying.

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what about jj abrams he can do big action/fantasy and team dynamic ensemble cast,drama,comedy as shown with star trek

I thought M:I-GP was better than M:I3 so I prefer the Brad Bird option, also Bird has less on his plate. by all means have Abrams on board if possible as a producer, I just don't think he needs to direct.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

I agree, with Avatar here. Abrams would be a great choice... but because of his name and reputation a lot of other movies have made him their choice already; add in that he is usually involved in a ttv show at any given time and he's a busy cat.

I still say my top pick is Our Man Snyder, but I would be okay with a Bird directed JLA movie.

I'd be even more okay with a JLI movie...

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I've heard he generally isn't involved in his shows for much after the first season, so that's not such a big issue, he's got 2 upcoming TV shows (one being made already, one just pitched so far) so possibly quite a bit on his plate if they both do well, and obviously Star Trek "12". Then he'll probably do something of his own choosing, and we'll see what happens with the ST franchise after that. he really only seems to direct a movie every 2 years, and I think he's powerful enough now that he has his pick of projects, and any project he does he'd have a lot of power, and I have no idea if he's even into comic books (honestly I don't think so, but then again he's gone on record saying he was never hugely into Star Trek so you never know for sure) but I just really can't see him doing a comic book movie.
I say he would be nice to have on board as a producer or something because he seems to have a good nose for good scripts, and I don't think he'd want to be involved in a project that was on track to fail, and he has enough Hollywood power to get it made, and made well.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

also pine was a better hal Jordan in ST than reynolds was in gL

Settle down.



It is true that many artists express themselves in ways that suit "one genre over another", as you correctly point out, Steve Dillon's style wouldn't fit a superhero or a magic book, mostly because he wouldn't have anything to contribute considering the way he draws, on that we agree.

However, to say that Nolan would be "the last person" to consider for this movie seems excessive, not to mention resentful. Sure man, he's not "geek" enough, and that's a concern I once had because it meant that as an artist, his product (Batman) would be limited.

But really, this is probably the first "big" artist and non-comic book reader whose first word when looking at a superhero wasn't "kids", but rather "adults", and on the basis of the latter, he elevated a character beyond what many people in his own medium, and outside of it, thought was possible.

So, while extremely unlikely, hell yeah if Cristopher Nolan thinks he can tackle the Justice League !

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It´s not the visuals that people are talking about...

Don't even begin to act like Nolan recreated the wheel with Batman, he didn't do anything that hasn't been done before in the comics and some of the stuff was even done on the Animated Series.

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^he did with film imo he transcended the super hero gene especially with TDK