There are no picket lines to cross in Australia, and so presumably director George Miller is having a fine time hanging out down there casting JLA one of the 8 zillion movies he’ll be filming simultaneously to get them all done before Hollywood’s actors join their writers on strike. Unfortunately, the guy seems to be showing no real inclination to actually hire anybody. We’ve been running JLA casting rumors for months now, and still the movie doesn’t have a cast. We do however, know a lot about who’s not doing it, since the film has been turned down by just about ever major actor and actress who’s ever been rumored to be involved in it.
So after being spurned by big name celebrities, recent Justice League of America casting rumors have all centered around unknowns. The latest mostly unknown name to toss around is an Australian guy named Andy Whitfield, who our friends at Moviehole say may have caught Miller’s eye and could be up for a part in JLA. He’s currently starring in a soon to be released Australian movie called Gabriel, which doesn’t look like it’s coming to the US but features the kind of cool poster art that makes me wish I could see it.
What we don’t know is what part Whitfield might play, and if we’re lucky he won’t play any part because Miller will finally come to his senses and realize he can’t possibly direct eleventy billion movies all at once and drop this whole JLA thing, consigning it straight to development hell. Come on, JLA is not going to be good. We all know it. Focus on Mad Max George, or make JLA animated and hand it over to the same bunch of animators you’re working with for Happy Feet 2. Kill two birds with one stone, and then it won’t matter if Jessica Biel refuses to do your movie since no one will see her shockingly perfect body on screen anyway.
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Why does Josh Tyler have a problem with someone picking up the most exciting super hero team there has ever been and making a movie about that team? Any moron can make a movie about a team that Marvel copied from a DC Comics team back in the day. But I can see how Josh hates the idea, es[ecially when he doesn't know that much about the Justice League in the first place.
This is sounding worse and worse. How did they go from Welling/Biel/Reynolds/Tyrese to model Gale, OC Seth, and this guy? This is not even a direct-to-dvd worthy cast.
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There are no picket lines to cross in Australia, and so presumably director George Miller is having a fine time hanging out down there casting JLA one of the 8 zillion movies he’ll be filming simultaneously to get them all done before Hollywood’s actors join their writers on strike. Unfortunately, the guy seems to be showing no real inclination to actually hire anybody. We’ve been running JLA casting rumors for months now, and still the movie doesn’t have a cast. We do however, know a lot about who’s not doing it, since the film has been turned down by just about ever major actor and actress who’s ever been rumored to be involved in it.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:52
"JLA is not going to be good. We all know it."
Who is "we all"?
Why does Josh Tyler have a problem with someone picking up the most exciting super hero team there has ever been and making a movie about that team? Any moron can make a movie about a team that Marvel copied from a DC Comics team back in the day. But I can see how Josh hates the idea, es[ecially when he doesn't know that much about the Justice League in the first place.