(Guest post by Greg Forster)
Hollywood is so dumb, they’re actually having trouble making a Justice League movie. Over on Hang Together, I am not impressed:
Look, you have here a team consisting of:
1) A virtuous hero raised by decent ordinary folk on a farm in Midwest corn country;
2) A self-made billionaire genius whose parents were slaughtered in front of him in a big east coast city;
3) A beautiful, fascinating noblewoman from an advanced but bizarre civilization who doesn’t believe in our ways but is stuck here and is trying her best to make our home hers; and
4) A couple other less important characters (choose any two from dozens of DC universe possibilities).
In other words, you have:
1) The moral backbone of America;
2) The cosmopolitan entrepreneurial genius of America;
3) The exotic immigrant from aristocratic Europe; and
4) Comic relief.
If you can’t make that movie, get out of the storytelling business.
Read the rest here, including my suggested opening scenes for the film.
Jay P. Greene's Blog 