I think I’m glad there wasn’t a Justice League movie…

Updated on August 4, 2010 By Ken Begg 15 Comments

Actually, I’d not really that much of a DC guy, and would myself prefer a live action Challenge of the Superfriends movie, but these remarks by actor Jay Baruchel don’t exactly make me rue Warners’ inability to get the film off the ground:

“It would have been the neatest vision of Batman and the coolest vision of Superman you’ve ever seen. It would have been dark and fairly brutal and quite gory and just f**king epic…It was going to be f**king dope!…I assure you it would have been something f**king awesome!”

Well, first of all, I’m not sure what a friggin’ Justice League movie would have to be “brutal” and “gory” (!), we’re not talking Deathklok here.  Still, it’s hard to ignore the assertion that it would have been “f***** dope!”  Man, that sounds wicked phat!

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  • Ericb

    I know I’m an old fart and I’m not too up to date on such things but isn’t that lingo a bit dated?

  • That’s how it struck me, too, like when a TV show tries to look ‘hip’ by using slang a couple of years out of date.

    Still, that film sounded totally gnarly!

  • BeckoningChasm

    Boy, am I an un-hip daddy-o.

    Someday an alien ship will land in the ashes of our civilization and the time-frame between the 1960’s and 2010 will forever escape their comprehension.

  • Ericb

    Slang is hardly new thing (go back to 17th century London and I bet you couldn’t understand what most people were saying)it’s just that in the 20th century new media technology made it more ubiquitous.

  • John Nowak

    “Dark and gory” are warning signs.

    On the other hand, it’s not like he was writing it. He sounds like a guy who can’t express himself well who was nevertheless quite excited.

  • Rock Baker

    I’m getting more morried each day. I actually am a DC fan (well, I don’t read their books or anything, but I do like their characters better than the competition -probably because they’re entrenched so deeply into American culture), so it bugs me when each new version completely strips away what made the character so good. The recent run of Batman movies have been pretty good, but Superman Returns left me feeling dirty, so to speak. I’ve never been a big Marvel fan, but I have to say their films are hitting much closer to the mark these days (animated DTV features seem to still be favoring DC, however). This interview certainly doesn’t bode well if this is the class of folk who would actually make a JLA movie.

    WB should just write a check and give it to the guy who made Batman: Dead End.

    Meanwhile, AC’s stopped trying to get a Hollywood film made out of their characters since the decade-long, much-stalled Femforce movie/TV series/DTV movie back in the 90s. They learned they didn’t need a studio to come in and screw around with their stuff, they could make cheesy movies on their own!

  • BeckoningChasm

    Ericb, trust me, I’ve read Chaucer and without the footnotes it’s a hard climb. :)

    However, I imagine in Chaucer’s day people could read his work (if they could read) and understand it. I can’t make the same claim about what I hear today.

    I’m reminded of a Samurai Jack episode when he tells an evil DJ his music is “bad.” The DJ swells with pride until Jack clarifies: “No! Not bad-good, bad-bad!”

  • Ericb

    I was just being pendantic. Regarding Chaucer, though people around and among the royal court could understand him, he was writing in the local London dialect (which eventually evolved into modern english and became the standard because of the printing press) and many people in other parts of England would have had as hard a time understanding it as we do.

  • Rock Baker

    Slang has a habit of returning and being used by kids who think they’re using it for the first time. I recall that circa 1990, the essential 1950s saying “You’re crusin for a brusin” was quite popular among junior high schoolers.

    For my part, I never did like the contemporary slang (or being called ‘Dude’ in school, if I hear it now I want to shout “That was MY steak, Valance!”), so I went back to the atomic age and used what I found there. I used everything from ‘square’ to ‘groovy’ and I still sounded more intelligent than my classmates. Slang is one of those things like fashion, some people try to stay absolutely up to the second for fear they’ll look or sound foolish, never figuring out that that very thing hopelessly dates them. I’ll stick with things that’ve had time to become standards, thank you very much. (Not to mention, I don’t habitually use profanity -so I don’t have to worry about being censored by magazines if I’m interviewed!)

  • Marsden

    “Dark and gory” are warning signs.

    On the other hand, it’s not like he was writing it. He sounds like a guy who can’t express himself well who was nevertheless quite excited.”

    Or he could just be an asshole.

  • Ah, good to see 90’s kid from ATFW has found real life employment.
    “DUUUUUDE! The Keaton Batman was the bestest ever, cause he just like ignored all that morality and responsibility and KILLED ALL THE BAD GUYS! He even set that one dude on fire!!!!!”

  • monoceros4

    Jay Baruchel, man. Where do they find these dopes?

    And all comic-booky material gets called “dark” these days. It’s a word that, applied to film and other entertainments, seems to be applied most frequently to lightweight fare. Nobody applies “dark”, with the same overtone of praise, to something like The Sweet Hereafter.

  • Rock Baker

    I guess making normally harmless fare ‘dark’ is today’s sport for some producers. Nothing excites some of them like cutting against the accepted grain. Sort of like that rash of porno-fairy tale movies back in the 70s.

  • John Campbell

    If they do a live action Challenge of the Superfriends movie, it MUST be just as bad as it’s animated ancestor. With all the campiness built in…

    So who would Bruce Campbell play?

  • James Fabiano

    I’m from the future. I must warn you about this Zack Snyder guy.