10 New Things We Learned About Joss Whedon's Justice League
6. Superman's Death Is Still Relatively Fresh
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One of the more interesting things regarding Saturday's trailer was that it told us that Superman's death was still fresh in the mind of the public; flowers adorn his memorial and London's Tower Bridge drapes the black and white version of Kal's symbol from its peak. The world is very much in the process of mourning.
These acts of collective remembrance may seem odd at first, given just how hostile everyone was when the Man of Steel last made a public appearance, but it illustrates that the events of Justice League take place not so long after the Trinity's fight with Doomsday. Four of the League's members (Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Flash and Cyborg) also pay a visit to Superman's Metropolis memorial. Whether it's to motivate them before the film's final confrontation or for some other reason, it's clear that Supes is set to play as big a role in this film dead as much as he would alive.
Regardless, this new team will have a lot to live up to when they first assemble. Here's hoping the public's reaction is decidedly less chilly than it was a year earlier.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
