ROTTEN TOMATOES: Justice League of America Casting Call!

Justice League of America Casting Call!

Young Hollywood converges on Miller's adaptation.

by Jeff Giles | October 15, 2007

The casting call has gone out for George Miller's Justice League of America, and a slew of young stars have answered.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, a "marathon casting session" kicked off over the weekend, "seeing 35-40 actors test" for a piece of Justice League action. From the article:

On the roll call are Adam Brody (Fox's "The O.C."), Joseph Cross ("Running With Scissors"), D.J. Cotrona ("Windfall"), Mary Elizabeth Winstead ("Grindhouse"), Michael Angarano ("Sky High"), Teresa Palmer ("Wolf Creek"), Max Thieriot ("Jumper") and rapper Common.

The cast of NBC's "Friday Night Lights" is well-represented as well, with Minka Kelly, Adrianne Palicki and Scott Porter also among those testing for parts. No costumes are involved in the tests, which are being taped as actors read script pages.

The Reporter goes on to note that Miller is looking for actors young enough to "grow into their roles over the course of several movies," and says he's "due to present his findings to the studio midweek." Let the Justice League casting announcements commence!

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Mad Dog writes:
on Oct 15 2007 06:28 AM

Christian Bale is the only one that matters. Whoever they choose as Batman will probably suck.

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blank blank writes:
on Oct 15 2007 06:30 AM

great. we're going to have another kate bosworth as lois lane type cast. AWESOME.

although common as GL is probably a good choice. much better than t.i.

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0LDB0Y writes:
on Oct 15 2007 06:41 AM

Keanu Reeves and Rob Schneider = Hollywood's most convincing actors of all time.

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Shatter24 writes:
on Oct 15 2007 06:44 AM

Get the Smallville guy to be Superman. He deserves to put the cape on. Plus, the same fans will likely watch both, so let's please them w/ some continuity. The rest can be unknowns, as far as I'm concerned.

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xenogears writes:
on Oct 15 2007 07:07 AM

Common would make a great Green Lantern and Tom Welling (guy from smallville) would be a good Superman but they gotta have some GOOD flying. Ryan rynolds would a hilarious Flash. But if they got Superman fighting Wonder Woman (essentialy making him almost a wife beater) then this is going to suck something awful.

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blank blank writes:
on Oct 15 2007 07:57 AM

if they put adam brody as flash, im going to take a massive dump on this movie

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arpeggio191 writes:
on Oct 15 2007 08:04 AM

In reply to this comment (#1192625)
well said.

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Weicher writes:
on Oct 15 2007 08:05 AM

Weta is doing the special effects...

I TOLD YOU THIS MOVIE WILL BE GOOD

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aknddon3 writes:
on Oct 15 2007 08:53 AM

Common would not make a good green lantern because the green lantern is white. John Stewart is not the green lantern and is not even important enough to talk about. How many giant storylines have revolved around John Stewart? NONE. How many around Hal Jordan? 4-5. So why are they not using Hal Jordan, oh yeah that is because the moron who made the cartoon thought it would be a good idea to steal part of jordans story and make the meaningless black character important.

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witherwings writes:
on Oct 15 2007 08:58 AM

Stop this train.

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aknddon3 writes:
on Oct 15 2007 09:30 AM

John Stewart=crap movie. Who cares about political correctness have the best characters for the best movie. Get that dude from Las Vegas or that guy who played Angel in the Buffy show to play Hal Jordan then you Can make a triolgy about Hal which would include his rise to fame, his fall in the second movie, and his rebirth in the third. It is perfect.

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whiteyboyprince writes:
on Oct 15 2007 09:32 AM

In reply to this comment (#1192974)
oh puulleeaasee !!! you racist bytch!

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Gimy writes:
on Oct 15 2007 09:57 AM

aknddon, while josh duhamel(dude from vegas) is one of my fav actors...he doesn't fit their criteria. he's well over 30 and he's not "young" enough to be in several movies like they want. david boreanez(dude from angel) is also older than what they want. i'm anxious to see how bad this flick is because nothing really seems to be going right, cast wise.

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aknddon3 writes:
on Oct 15 2007 11:04 AM

But Gimy, Hal is an older character so it would make sense to have an older actor. Not to mention those two have the Hal Jordan attitude all over them.

P.S. How am i racist for not wanting a joke character in a movie?

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aknddon3 writes:
on Oct 15 2007 11:09 AM

Gimy just imagine David boreanez as Pharallax it would be perfect like his whole good angel and bad angel.

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RoadDogXVIII writes:
on Oct 15 2007 11:49 AM

Who do you think Mary Elizabeth Winstead's gonna play? Sources say it'll be Wonder Woman. She's a good actress, so I think she can pull it off.

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jasperoosterveld writes:
on Oct 15 2007 11:58 AM

What are you guys all talking about, this movie sounds awefull and is just being made for the money and not for the love of the cartoon or comic.

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thereign writes:
on Oct 15 2007 12:31 PM

Aknddon: Saying "Common would not make a good Green Lantern because the Green Lantern is white" and "So why are they not using Hal Jordon, oh yeah that is because the moron who wrote the cartoon thought it would be a good idea to steal part of Jordan's story and make the meaningless black character important" is what labels you as racist to some, even if you're not. Both are ignorant statements. "The Green Lantern character" is NOT white...Hal Jordan is white. Like Star Trek, the Corps is supposed to be multiculturally inclusive. "meaningless black character" is also ignorant.

As a matter of fact, there was a VERY important comic series put out years ago which starred John Stewart, in which Darkseid finally discovered the anti-life equation, only to find out it was deadlier than he expected. In that series(unfortunately I forget the name), John Stewart accidentally destroyed a planet, which led to his mental breakdown. This was referenced for several years in the Green Lantern series and JLA. I think that marks it as fairly important. And as Paul Dini(one of the "idiots" who helped make the GREAT JL cartoon) once said, "It wouldn't be right for a bunch of white guys to be running around saving the world". I don't quite feel the same way, so don't try to bring me down to your level on that point...but the JLA is supposed to also be representative of a greater ideal. And that ideal is to include people of other cultures and races in uniting to save our planet.

If you don't like the idea of JOHN STEWART being in the movie, and prefer HAL JORDAN, fine--but don't dare bring antiquated ideas of a white character being "better" than a black one into the argument.

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thereign writes:
on Oct 15 2007 12:49 PM

Found the story which featured John Stewart: COSMIC ODYSSEY from 1988.

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genxorcist writes:
on Oct 15 2007 01:22 PM

In reply to this comment (#1193218)
Very well said, thereign. Thank you. aknddon3's comments are so vulgar, ignorant and wildly inappropriate that they don't deserve response, but you handled them very nicely without lowering yourself to his/her level. I'm a fan of all the Green Lanterns and I think they're each important but cultural diversity is also important and worthwhile concern if you want to make a movie with any chance of a successful box office. Anyone trying to keep the league all one race completely and totally misses the point of justice and of the league's very reason for existing. They're for everyone and the producers of this movie are trying to make this movie as inclusive as possible. More power to them.

All that said, I still fear this movie will blow...

GenXorcist
http://www.genxorcist.com/index.html

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