It seems that the all-star casting has begun for the upcoming ‘is it really happening’ Justice League of America film.
Recently I read that the film will involve the following; White Martians, Maxwell Lord, Lex Luthor, OMACs, and the death of Wonder Woman.
Let’s just take this in bite size portions…
White Martians - Utilized as the key ingredient in Grant Morrison’s JLA revival, the White Martians are the warriors of Mars (Green Martians such as J’onn J’onzz being the scientist/philosophers class).
Able to change shape and employ telepathic abilities, the pesky aliens terrorized the Earth again in cartoon form when they were used by Bruce Timm to jump start the Justice League animated series. It’s a good idea to use an alien threat as a good enough reason to pool resources, but I’m not getting the impression that this will be an ‘origin story’ for the JLA. Besides… it would be a lot of ground to cover in just 1.5 hours.
Maxwell Lord – The businessman responsible for the franchise-approach for the JLA in the mid-80’s and regarded as a key connection to an era that many comic book readers regard as a ‘golden age’ of the JLA comic book series by Keith Giffen.
Ofcourse Maxwell Lord ended up being used by DC Comics as a master villain in the now infamous ‘Identity Crisis’ event in which it was revealed that Lord was acquiring information on the world’s heroes in order to shut them down.
Right now, nut-job and occasional actor Mel Gibson is rumored to play the part.
Lex Luthor – The enemy of Superman is rumored to be played by sometimes bald actor Bruce Willis.
OMACs – (stands for One-Man Army Corps, Observational Meta-human Activity Construct, or Omni Mind And Community… depending on what issue of the current series you read) The robotic threat introduced in the Infinite Crisis tie-in series ‘The OMAC Project’ is a complicated villain.
OMACs are part of a counter-measure developed by Batman called Brother Eye that used sleeper agents impregnated with nanobots that, when activated, turn random civilians into hunter/killer drones.
While visually interesting, if the film uses this idea it will muddy the already rocky waters of the film with the ‘who can you trust’ issues raised in the comic books the villains appeared in.
Death of Wonder Woman - Again, in the comic books published a few years back, Wonder Woman discovered that Maxwell Lord was a traitor to the super human community and, with no other recourse, broke his neck. It appeared that the character was headed for a fall after this event as she was arrested and publicly disgraced as a murderer as the video of her killing Lord was played all over the planet.
Again, I doubt this will be in the film, but the story is that one hero may die before the credits roll.
What do you, the reader, think of these rumors?
