George Miller off JLA?

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

It's bordering nonsensical talking about the Justice League movie at this point because for every claim, counter claim and then counter, counter claim - but the truth is the movie has no cast or firm greenlight, so until we hear otherwise that's how we will view the official status of the film. However, IESB have heard a juicy story that's a little too good not to report on.

They say that Australian director George Miller has been pulled off the now dead Justice League project and the film completely canned because WB were worried about the Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale backlash on their very successful Batman franchise which has made over $1 billion so far from two movies. They didn't want to piss them off basically. But that would seem not to be the end of Miller and WB/DC. The site go on to claim that the studio is looking at Miller as a big potential candidate for the Green Lantern film which looks very likely to be the next original character adapted for screen from their canon, beating The Flash and Wonder Woman to the punch. They have a script from Greg Berlanti (The Broken Hearts Club, Dawson's Creek) which they are very fond of and before the years is out, I wouldn't be surprised if this begins moving forward aggressively. After all, the studio have comic book tentpoles to fill, and Batman 3 and another Superman movie look YEARS away at this point.

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