Justice League: Mortal is both an abandoned and cancelled 2009 superhero film, based on the DC Comics characters in the Justice League cartoon series[1]. The film was going to be directed by George Miller with a script written by Kieran and Michele Mulroney.
Plot[]
The film itself would revolve around Batman, dissatisfied with metahumans in the world, creating an army of robots to replace the Justice League, only for it to backfire and result in a legion of evil AI robots bent on world domination.
Cast[]
Heroes[]
- Armie Hammer as Batman/Bruce Wayne
- D. J. Cotrona as Superman/Clark Kent
- Megan Gale as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince
- Common (Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr.) as Green Lantern/John Stewart
- Adam Brody as the Flash/Barry Allen
- Hugh Keays-Byrne as Martian Manhunter
- Santiago Cabrera as Aquaman/Arthur Curry
Villains[]
- Jay Baruchel as Maxwell Lord
- Teresa Palmer as Talia al Ghul
Why It Was Cancelled[]
- The cancellation of the film was led by the success of The Dark Knight.
- A writer's strike also caused the cancellation.
- With the the success of The Dark Knight, Warner Bros decided that it wasn't s good time to make a film with all DC characters together and went on to focus on solo films based DC Comics.
Results[]
- Justice League Mortal was permanently cancelled.
- A Justice League film was released in 2017, but it received mixed reviews from critics and audiences and flopped.
- In 2021, Zack Snyder's Justice League was released on HBO Max.
Trivia[]
- D. J. Cotrona later portrayed Pedro Peña in Shazam! (2019) and Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023), along side Adam Brody as Captain Everypower/Freddy Freeman in both films.
- Common later portray Monster T in Suicide Squad (2016).
Videos[]
Wonder Woman - WTF Happened to This Movie?
WTF Happened to JUSTICE LEAGUE!?
George Miller's Justice League Mortal - The Movie That Almost Was
Concept Art and Others[]
