7. They Know How To Do This
This is an important thing to keep in mind when we consider the previous two attempts to make a Justice League movie. Now obviously those projects fell apart for any variety of reasons (who knows why movies get made or dont get made? I assure you, not even the people who
make those decisions...) but one thing thats evident about both projects George Millers 2009 Justice League: Mortal and the more recent Will Beale scripted Justice League film is that they wouldve
sucked. Like, radioactive levels of suckage. Apparently the main reason the Beale script which has been worked on for about a year didnt get made is because the script wasnt good enough to direct a decent director. And when you cant entice notable directors to do
a guaranteed hit, something's wrong in dodge. Enter two of the guys who, arguable, reinvented and reinvigorated the superhero movie. Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale are like a guaranteed seal of approval. Nolan made superhero cinema into something we could seriously see being up for Oscar consideration; Bale is (correct me if I'm wrong here) the first Oscar winner to play a superhero, and he's done it without camp, without winking at the audience. Nolan and Bale made it possible for an audience to take Batman seriously, just as seriously as comic book readers have always taken the character; they made it OK for superhero flicks to not just be "popcorn movies", but FILMS, with stories and character arcs and themes and all that good stuff we normally EXPECT when we go to the theater. These guys managed to pull off the nearly impossible, a hat trick of dark, serious Batman movies that honored the source material and were beautifully mounted. If
anybody can pull off Justice League on film, it's
them. One final thing to point out: both Nolan and (especially) Bale have said in the past that they'd be open to more superhero films if they had a story worth telling. After all they've given us, if they're coming back for another go round, haven't they perhaps earned the benefit of the doubt?