Justice League movie news (continued)

From IESB.net

The motion capture rumor that we received earlier this week caused us to do some deep digging on the JLA production. Here’s what we have found out. Yes there will be motion capture used in the film but it will not be an all out “motion capture production.” Heavy motion capture will be used for the OMACs, the underwater sequences and such. So, all in all, this will be a traditionally made film with some motion capture characters, pretty much like every big fantasy movie these days. So that appears to be the final word on that subject. Now onto the big stuff!

Bale and Routh are…out, for sure, but who does WB want to replace them with?

Get ready ‘Smallville’ fans, your fantasies of Tom Welling in a cape are getting ready to come true. Yes that’s right, Tom Welling, TV’s Clark Kent, has been approached to take up the Superman role in the Justice League film. This has been a hope of Smallville fans for years and all indications are that WB has finally heard the call.

Russell Crowe in Batman – The Dark Knight?

From Cinemablend…

Russell Crowe and Christian Bale are soon to show up in theaters together in 3:10 to Yuma. Apparently they liked working together, because it looks like Crowe may show up in Bale’s Batman movie The Dark Knight.Christian spilled the beans to If Magazine where he says, “Russell’s going to actually be in the new BATMAN movie.” Well it doesn’t get much clearer than that. So Russell’s in it. Now what? Bale doesn’t drop any bombs about what part he’ll be playing or even how much he’ll be in it, so we have no idea.

Odds are that it’s a cameo, if it was anything more substantial you have to think we’d have heard something about it before now. Besides, the movie is already packed with so many major characters there’s really not room for another. That doesn’t mean his part might not be significant though. Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan could be setting him up to play a major role in the next movie.

Of course a few weeks ago I’d have said there’s no way in hell that Russell Crowe would do a Dark Knight movie, let alone a Dark Knight sequel, but lately Crowe’s name has been popping up all over the place in relation to geek-friendly properties. It was just a few days back that Crowe’s name popped up in conjunction with Star Trek for instance. If Crowe can be the new Khan, then why not be the next bad guy to fight Batman?

Before I call my mom to once again hear her sing the 3:10 to Yuma theme tune, let me ask you, the reader… what role do you think Russell Crowe would play?

Mad Hatter?

Egghead?

Killer Crock?

.. actually… that last one sounds interesting.