Over a year ago Warner Bros. tapped Gangster Squad writer Will Beall to create a script for a Justice League movie. Warner Bros. will likely point this out when others accuse the studio of trying to copy Marvel’s superhero team-up movie success with The Avengers.  Beall is a busy boy and is quickly becoming a studio favorite.  The Beall-penned Gangster Squad is due out from Warner Bros. on September 7th, and Warners has also tapped him to script the remakes of Lethal Weapon and Logan’s Run.  Variety reports that Beall has yet to finish his Justice League script, but the fact that the studio assigned its “go-to” writer to project is an indication that the project is a high priority.

 

Actually it was Warners that was very close to making the first major superhero team-up film back in 2007 when George Miller (see "George Miller Working on 'JLA' Movie") was set to helm a Justice League film featuring Adrian Brody as The Flash, Megan Gale as Wonder Woman, and Armie Hammer as Batman, but the writers’ strike made fixing the script by Kieran and Michele Mulroney impossible and the project was abandoned in early 2008 (see "Warners Puts the Brakes on 'JLA'").

 

According to Variety, which broke the news of the Beall Justice League assignment, other DC Comics projects with writers assigned include The Flash with Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green, Wonder Woman with Michael Goldenberg working on the adaptation, Lobo with Brad Peyton, while David Koepp and John Kamps are developing a live-action Spy vs. Spy.