Well ladies and gentlemen, if you have not yet abandoned all hope for the upcoming Justice League movie – consider doing so now. It appears they may change the name of the film to American Heroes! We get word of this bastardization thanks to the glorious WEBMASTER at filmjunk:
Word on the street is that they’ve been mulling over a possible title change for the upcoming Justice League movie, and while I agree that the phrase “Justice League” may seem a bit dated and corny for modern audiences, it’s hard to imagine it being called anything else. Foolishly I had assumed that the motivation behind a new name had something to do with removing the patriotic connotations. Imagine my surprise when I heard that the new title may actually end up being American Heroes!
At the moment, this is still unconfirmed (along with just about everything else we supposedly know about the flick), but the scoop is said to have come from an interview with Christian Bale on Australian radio where he said he has “nothing to do with American Heroes, and their Batman will be different to our Batman”.
Why would you want to do a film adaptation of a comic book and then not incorporate the name? Either they are going so far from the source material that they cannot ethically use the name; or they are seriously damaged in their collective frontal lobe and actually think that this is a better title. This title should have been used for the Justice League’s spoof movie, but instead they would prefer to parody the heroes themselves by making the shittiest decisions possible.
Stop the presses, call the sandwich truck guy and tell him to stop coming around, tell Armie Hammer that he can still be Batman for Halloween; but please in the name of all that’s right, do not continue any further with this movie. Go back to the drawing board, fire a bunch of people, read some comic books, stop huffing glue, and then return in a few years when you are ready to make a proper Justice League movie. This movie is going to be DC’s Storm Cloud (Galactus).
@fritzilla
no, it would makes sense to call it Justice League.
my guess would be bale was mocking the film calling it that…..
Yeah, I also noticed the irony that the second poster mentioned. Everyone was ok with the bastardizing of GI Joe by changing it’s name to REMOVE the American aspect but now they don’t like this one where they change the name and add it?
Did it occur to you that these are heroes of American culture, as opposed to saying they were all born here? Would it make sense to call it African Heroes? Or World Police Heroes? Or United Nations Heroes?
To be honest: If this film is really called “American Heroes”, the international box office will bomb, because a movie based on a comic series with “America” seems to be too patriotic for most countries (do not forget that America is not the most popular country in the world, right now).
THE REAL AMERICAN HEROE(S)? isn’t that an old TV series with a curly guy in a read suit :)
If they called Sean William Scott or Jason Biggs for a role: American Pie Heroes
If they gave a non-speaking role to 80’s B film actor Michael Dudikoff: American Ninja Heroes
If George Lucas were a producer: >em> American Heroes Graffitti
If they keep going the way they are going : American Crapfest, also known as Communism Sounds Cool
american heroes is the worst name I have ever heard
WB listened one time when they were developing Superman Lives. At first, Tim Burton was to direct. Deal didn’t work. McG was hired, as well as Brett Ratner. During this, J.J. Abrams developed a script, which got a severe backlash that everything fell apart and led to Bryan Singer as director.
Here’s the infamous review: http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=13350
Holy shit, this can be a good story line (sentence dripping with irony).
Superman and Wonder Woman it is discovered are undocumented illegal aliens. President Tancredo orders them deported and it’s up to the AMERICAN HEREOS (Batman doesn’t like the edict, but can’t resist a chance to kick Superman’s ass), to bring them to justice.
Now come on guys. I think despite the possible name change and the casting, this film has alot of serious potent– BWA HA HA HA HA oh god, sorry I just couldn’t keep a straight face anymore.
Seriously though, one has to wonder if anyone in the WB offices listens to internet chatter. They have to know that this is being reviled before a single scene has been shot.
Of course, the cynic in me simply responds that they’re not making this movie for ‘fans’ or even the quasi-intelligent people. They’re making this for the individuals they know will, as always, blindly fill the theatres up, make them tons of cash. They’re making this for the little kids who will scream and pout and demand mommy and daddy drag them to see the movie — and then right to Toys R Us to buy all the merchandised crap that comes with it.
I’ll still see it
You know what, Speed Racer isn’t looking that bad now. Compared to this news, it deserves an ‘A’ for effort. This idea gets an ‘F+’ for “Fucked beyond belief!”.
It’s truly flabbergasting how much they’re fucking this thing up. The level of error in all judgment involved with this film is disturbing. At least when they were going to make Jack Black the Green Lantern WB listened to the internet chatter and realized that JB wasn’t the best idea to go with. Someone at WB ‘has’ to be reading some of this stuff, online, and ‘has’ to be thinking ‘maybe we should start again.’ I mean, they have to be…right?
sorry for the double post…had an error the first time arond and it didnt post it, so i thought…sorry
I hope whoever said, “Hey, how about American Hereos.” I hope that SOB gets raped. Is that harsh, fuck no its not harsh….i mean goddamn it are you fucking serious. I want to kill something……..
I hope whoever said, “hey, how about American Heroes” I hope that SOB gets raped. Is that harsh, fuck no its not harsh….goddamn it, are you fucking serious….i want to kill something right now.
I seriously wanted to puke so badly when I saw the title of this post (and I’m not a comic book nut!)!
This is GOD-FUCKIN’-DAMNED stupid, plain and simple! Please let this whole movie be false. Please, let it die!
General Zod would absolutely kill everyone in this movie. Fuck this, give us a sequel to Superman Returns! Anything but this! Ah, screw it, I’m watching Transformers again.
maybe the villain will be American Gangster.
Miller could also add Masi Oka to the cast. Then he could get away with re-titling it HEROES.
Bad jokes asside, I’m still counting down the days till this entire film collapses. We’d have heard SOMETHING official from WB by now (if not a month or two ago) if this project was seriously moving forward.
at least they didnt rename it “international heros” like gijoe. that was just plan wrong. but for some reason john had no problem with that one?
I see, so they call themselves American heroes but some of them come from cities which don’t actually exist in American or anywhere else. So if Darkseid is bothering the UK to try and get some of our delicious chocolate, who are we gonna call (since its not an American problem)?
Oh that’s right, we call G.I.Joe cause they’re international heroes, and they’re gonna kick this film’s ass in every way (even if it sucks itself).