{"id":953,"date":"2008-03-29T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/03\/somebody-kill-justice-league-please\/"},"modified":"2008-03-29T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T09:53:00","slug":"somebody-kill-justice-league-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/03\/somebody-kill-justice-league-please.html","title":{"rendered":"Somebody kill Justice League, please."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">George Miller\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/newsbites-oscars-trek-narnia-antichrist.html#6\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Justice League<\/a><\/i> movie has reportedly been re-named <i>Justice League Mortal<\/i>.  We should be so lucky.  Recent reports in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117982652.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Variety<\/a><\/i> and the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/film\/mega-miller-movie-refused-rebate\/2008\/03\/18\/1205602383792.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/i> indicated that the film would not be able to shoot in Miller\u2019s native Australia as planned, because the government wouldn\u2019t give the film a tax break \u2014 but instead of leaving this misbegotten film to die, Miller has reportedly begun scouting locations here in British Columbia.  And now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/new.php?id=8327\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cinema Blend<\/a> says it got a tip from a reader who spoke to Adam Brody in a B.C. bar and was told that Hayden Christensen \u2014 you know, <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/newsbites-legion-hereafter-w-lean-trek.html#9\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Anakin Skywalker<\/a>, the guy from <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/jumper-plot-points-and-two-brian-coxes.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jumper<\/a><\/i> \u2014 is playing Superman.  Good grief, it was bad enough when the filmmakers were casting virtual <i>unknowns<\/i> who gave the impression that the film was going to dumb down a bunch of popular superheroes and turn them into whiny, adolescent rip-offs of their actual selves, but if this really is the biggest <i>known<\/i> actor that they\u2019re turning to, then that just seals the deal.  Kill this movie now, people.  Maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/newsbites-superman-fagles-ranger-tintin.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jerry Siegel\u2019s heirs<\/a> can do something about this.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Miller\u2019s Justice League movie has reportedly been re-named Justice League Mortal. We should be so lucky. Recent reports in Variety and the Sydney Morning Herald indicated that the film would not be able to shoot in Miller\u2019s native Australia as planned, because the government wouldn\u2019t give the film a tax break \u2014 but instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Somebody kill Justice League, please.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"George Miller&#039;s Justice League movie has reportedly been re-named Justice League Mortal. We should be so lucky. 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