10 Guillermo Del Toro Movies That Are Never Going To Happen
3. Justice League Dark
What is it? An adaptation of the DC comics series introduced into their New 52 reboot in 2011, Justice League Dark covers the more Gothic and supernatural end of the DC universe and comes with the possibility of a darker, more adult tone. Del Toro was linked to a film adaptation in late 2012 and officially announced by Warner Bros. as the movie's director in January 2013. At 2013's Wonder Con, Del Toro said that the film would be his next project after Crimson Peak and that he had a story written utilising John Constantine, Swamp Thing, Deadman, The Spectre, Zatanna and Zatara, in which Constantine would recruit the others to fight a greater supernatural threat. Later that year, the film was confirmed as a part of the developing DC Extended Universe and set for a 2017 release date. Why won't it happen? The nascent DCEU threw a stumbling block in the way of adapting any DC properties outside of its tightly controlled plans, meaning that Justice League Dark was always going to have to be folded into the wider scheme. Yet its rather more out there elements make it a troubling fit for the rest of DC's movie-verse (It's taken this long for the more risk taking Marvel Cinematic Universe to make it to the similar Doctor Strange, after all), and the studio really need to make sure their safer bets like Batman v Superman are successes before doing anything else. With the failure of Constantine, easily Justice League Dark's most familiar character amongst the wider public, as both a movie and TV series and the continued development hell of the Sandman movie, DC just don't seem massively keen to move on any of their darker, more adult characters. Maybe if Suicide Squad and the, presumably fairly significant, dark magic role for Cara Delevingne's Enchantress strikes a chord with audiences, then Justice League Dark is a possibility. But all those are big "ifs". In June 2015, Del Toro officially departed the project as it would clash with his work on Pacific Rim 2. With the latter no longer happening, an opening could be there for him to return to Justice League Dark, but only if this film seems any more likely to get off the ground than that one.
