Ben Affleck possible director for JLA movie
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Posted on: 2012-08-08 13:09 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
We need a cameo by the Hemp Knight and Chronic in there as well!
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Directing a movie like this, while also trying to star in it, is going to be a huge problem, I think. The Avengers worked because of how much time was given to each character, without one overshadowing the others. If you're the director and one of the stars, I doubt you'd give that kind of equality.
The bigger problem, in my mind, is how the DC movies have been made versus the Marvel ones. The Marvel movies tried to tie the characters together in a universe where they all existed around the same time anyways, but operated in different areas. In this way, you could bring them all together when you needed them.
But the DC movies have made the heroes out to be the only hero in their universe. Take the recent Batman movie for existence. SPOILERS!!!!!!!! If Superman and Batman existed in the same universe, at the same time, why the heck didn't Superman come and beat the crud out of Bane and save the day when Batman was gone? If Superman was around and just hadn't revealed himself yet, wouldn't the people of Gotham immediately blame him for not helping them when they were in massive misery? Or what about Green Lantern? Couldn't he have just come and surrounded the nuke in a force field, and fling it into space?
That's going to be a disconnect that the director will either have to address or just ignore, and both are bad options.
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I realize that there will inevitably be anti-Affleck comments regarding his acting or life, but the man can direct and write a movie.
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I believe the approach that will be better for the JLA movie would be to reverse the formula that Avengers used. Make the ensemble movie first, then make individual spin-offs. There's obviously no way they can combine what's been done before without really killing the immersion of the film.
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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
But the DC movies have made the heroes out to be the only hero in their universe. Take the recent Batman movie for existence. SPOILERS!!!!!!!! If Superman and Batman existed in the same universe, at the same time, why the heck didn't Superman come and beat the crud out of Bane and save the day when Batman was gone? If Superman was around and just hadn't revealed himself yet, wouldn't the people of Gotham immediately blame him for not helping them when they were in massive misery? Or what about Green Lantern? Couldn't he have just come and surrounded the nuke in a force field, and fling it into space?
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I think this is the problem I have, how can a director be fair to all the characters when he/she would want theirs out in front. And what character would he play? My guess would be the Flash, I just can't see him as Sups, Batman or GL. Now if he want to be WW then more power to him |
Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Directing a movie like this, while also trying to star in it, is going to be a huge problem, I think. The Avengers worked because of how much time was given to each character, without one overshadowing the others. If you're the director and one of the stars, I doubt you'd give that kind of equality.
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The bigger problem, in my mind, is how the DC movies have been made versus the Marvel ones. The Marvel movies tried to tie the characters together in a universe where they all existed around the same time anyways, but operated in different areas. In this way, you could bring them all together when you needed them. But the DC movies have made the heroes out to be the only hero in their universe. Take the recent Batman movie for existence. SPOILERS!!!!!!!! If Superman and Batman existed in the same universe, at the same time, why the heck didn't Superman come and beat the crud out of Bane and save the day when Batman was gone? If Superman was around and just hadn't revealed himself yet, wouldn't the people of Gotham immediately blame him for not helping them when they were in massive misery? Or what about Green Lantern? Couldn't he have just come and surrounded the nuke in a force field, and fling it into space? That's going to be a disconnect that the director will either have to address or just ignore, and both are bad options. |
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He's mediocre on-screen, but he's a talented director and he genuinely loves comics. I'd be interested to see this happen.
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The comics books suffer from this same "problem". Do you know what the solution is? Superman didn't fly in and stop Bane because he was busy stopping Lex Luthor from creating a kryptonite island resort or stopping Brainiac from eating the planet or something. As for Green Lantern? He was fighting an invasion at Alpha Centauri, which is pretty far away from Gotham.|
Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
But the DC movies have made the heroes out to be the only hero in their universe. Take the recent Batman movie for existence. SPOILERS!!!!!!!! If Superman and Batman existed in the same universe, at the same time, why the heck didn't Superman come and beat the crud out of Bane and save the day when Batman was gone? If Superman was around and just hadn't revealed himself yet, wouldn't the people of Gotham immediately blame him for not helping them when they were in massive misery? Or what about Green Lantern? Couldn't he have just come and surrounded the nuke in a force field, and fling it into space?
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The real problem is not that the existence of other superheroes makes the Batman movies unbelievable, but rather that the Batman movies exist in a universe where almost every other superhero is unbelievable. Even the concept of Bane's character had to be tweaked in order for him to fit.
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The two released films he directed, The Town and Gone Baby Gone, have been well received so as a director he does have so chops. As part of the Kevin Smith entourage he has access to a group of hard core fans (which may be a bad thing being how hard core fans are) can help targeting the motivations of each member. It still however revolves around the need for a decent script because it doesn't matter how great he may be able to direct the actors, if the script leans Schumacher-like it's going to be a big fail.
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I think this is the problem I have, how can a director be fair to all the characters when he/she would want theirs out in front. And what character would he play? My guess would be the Flash, I just can't see him as Sups, Batman or GL. Now if he want to be WW then more power to him
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Originally Posted by myskatz
I think this is the problem I have, how can a director be fair to all the characters when he/she would want theirs out in front. And what character would he play? My guess would be the Flash, I just can't see him as Sups, Batman or GL. Now if he want to be WW then more power to him
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I admit, I'm curious. Affleck is a fan with famous fan friends and has proven himself a more than capable director. Is he right for a JLA movie? I dunno. Should he star in it as well? Not sure who he'd play. (Actually, I just realized that he might make a pretty good Max Lord, or something... kinda like Favreau playing Happy Hogan in the Iron Man movies.)
We don't even know yet if he thinks the script they have right now is any good!
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I could see him as Hal Jordan - the cocky fighter pilot Jordan, not the emo one imposed on Ryan Reynolds.
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As long as I get entertained by the movie I am okay with all of this!
With Ben Affleck directing, if the keep the script in the tone of Avengers, serious but not to serious with making it look like a comical parody of 60's superheroes, and a decent cast, the movie I think will be golden!
Even better, Affleck might be able to pull off some hidden cameos that would just be fun!
Marvel gets it's Stan Lee cameos, JLU can have it's Jersey Trilogy cameos!
"OMG! KEVEIN SMITH!" *LOL* "That's Jason right next to him!" \o/ "OH! OH! LOOK! Batman just busted up a robbery at the Quick Stop! Oh that Randal!" 
"Oooo...that was Matt Damon!"
Okay, I really doubt they'll do that, but would be awesome!
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Ben Affleck did win an oscar for co-writing Good Will Hunting.....
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The two released films he directed, The Town and Gone Baby Gone, have been well received so as a director he does have so chops. As part of the Kevin Smith entourage he has access to a group of hard core fans (which may be a bad thing being how hard core fans are) can help targeting the motivations of each member. It still however revolves around the need for a decent script because it doesn't matter how great he may be able to direct the actors, if the script leans Schumacher-like it's going to be a big fail.
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as long as they dont cast horribly for wonder woman and go with an unknown/new actress, i'm ok with this.
it all rides on writing [no stupid plot holes please, these are supposed to be brilliant powerful universe altering characters, k thx], casting, and battle sequences.
let's get it on!
That's right WB is looking at Ben Affleck to direct the Justice League movie, I'm not sure he is a good choice for the directorship, but I could be wrong. It will depend on the treatment of the characters as a whole and how they are all brought together, like it was done in the Avengers movie. If it's done in that style it could very well be great, but that's my opinion.
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=93394
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118057612
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