Considering how much of an impact George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road had on the cinematic landscape this year, it’s no wonder that people are digging into every nook and cranny of George Miller’s career. This includes movies that he almost made, but never went in front of a camera.
The big one that everyone talks about is Justice League: Mortal. The hypothetical film would have had Miller in the director’s chair, bringing us the first big big screen super hero film of the modern comic book era. However, it was one of the numerous casualties of the 2007 writer’s strike.
In an interview with THR Miller had this to say on the abandoned project:
“That was, oh, seven years ago, I think. And there was a really great script. And Warners said, “Let’s do it. Let’s do a Justice League.” I really was attracted to it. But there was a writers strike looming. We had to cast it very quickly, which we did with Warners’ casting people. And we cast it really quickly and we mounted it very quickly. And it depended on a start date and it depended on some basic rebate legislation that had just got through a new Australian government. But it was just too big a decision for them to make in the time. And that fell through and the whole film fell through. We almost got there. And it wasn’t to be. But that happens a lot, where films line up and the stars look like they’re aligning and they didn’t.”
Miller goes on to say that he ran out into the same sort of troubles with Fury Road, and that eventually saw the light of day, and in spectacular fashion. So for all of those holding out hope, never say never…
OK, it’s probably never happening.
Justice League: Part 1, directed by Zack Snyder, is slated to come out November 17, 2017.
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