And luckily, no rumours of including the Wonder Twins...

I know most of you (or maybe none of you) read Justice League of America comics, but I'm sure you all watched Superfriends on Saturday mornings back in the day. The movie blogs have been abuzz of late regarding preproduction plans for a live-action JLA film. George Miller, who helmed all three of the Mad Max films as well as Happy Feet most recently (now that's what I call a diverse resume), has already been announced as the director. Even more spoiler-filled leaks have come to light, some of which sound cool, and some of which I'm a bit disappointed to read.

I'm very interested to see how they're going to make such an ensemble superhero movie work on the big screen. Having lots of people running around a movie screen in colorful tights, I'm afraid there's going to be a temptation to camp it up a bit. The conflicts between Batman and Superman were some of the more memorable subplots of Frank Miller's Dark Knight graphic novels and continue to be used well in more recent mini-series like Justice (recommended even just for the Alex Ross painted artwork alone), so I hope they keep that stuff up in the movie. Heck, they could have made a whole movie out of that. Let's hope they don't dumb this down too much.

Somehow, a vital member of the group, Aquaman, got left off the list. I guess he's hard to incorporate into a movie with six other superheroes that can't breathe underwater. Or maybe Vinnie Chase wasn't available.

And what's with Green Lantern? Everyone knows Hal Jordan is the best version of the Green Lantern Corps. I find the use of John Stewart as strictly a PC move on the movie studio's part.

Anywho, the official casting list has yet to be announced, but apparently they've already decided on Wonder Woman--Australian supermodel Megan Gale. Suddenly, Linda Carter seems really old: