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Posted in: Justice League Dark<\/a>, Max<\/a>, Movies<\/a>, TV<\/a>, Warner Bros<\/a> | Tagged: guillermo del toro<\/a>, justice league dark<\/a><\/p>\n

Guillermo del Toro has revealed some details about the canceled Justice League Dark film, including who would have been the lead and a potential Batman cameo.<\/p>\n

Article Summary
\nGuillermo del Toro’s canceled Justice League Dark would have centered on John Constantine as the lead.
\nDel Toro revealed the film’s script included a cameo from Batman and featured the Floronic Man as a villain.
\nDoug Jones was considered to play Deadman, continuing his frequent collaborations with del Toro.
\nJustice League Dark stalled as DC shifted focus, but a complete del Toro script still exists in Hollywood limbo. <\/p>\n

When the first era of the DC Universe kicked off with\u00a0Man of Steel, what followed were many messy years of movies that made it to the big screen and even more that got announced and canceled with little to no movement. It was nearly a running joke the number of announced DC projects that were floating around, supposedly in varying levels of development, that never came to pass. One of those films was Justice League Dark from director Guillermo del Toro.\u00a0The film was confirmed by del Toro in January 2013, which meant it pre-dated even the DC Cinematic Universe, and there were talks about bringing that film into the fold when\u00a0Man of Steel\u00a0was released. From there, things meandered for over a decade. In 2014, del Toro confirmed that the script was complete and there was a little movement here and there through 2017, when it was officially titled\u00a0Justice League Dark at Comic-Con.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>L-R: Justice League Dark Vol 1 #9 Cover (Textless) July, 2012. Cover Artists: Ryan Sook | LONDON, ENGLAND \u2013 DECEMBER 07: Guillermo del Toro views Mary Shelley archival items ahead of a photocall for “Frankenstein” following a Q&A at the British Library on December 07, 2025 in London, England, December 7, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Lia Toby\/Getty Images for Netflix) 2025 Getty Images<\/p>\n

However, the pandemic era was not kind to this, and the rest of the DC Universe and the film eventually fell not long after\u00a0James Gunn\u00a0and\u00a0Peter Safran were announced as the co-chairs and co-CEOs of DC Studios.\u00a0Some of the characters that were often cited as part of the\u00a0Justice League Dark\u00a0lineup were featured elsewhere, such as the\u00a0Swamp Thing\u00a0movie<\/a> that would be directed by\u00a0James Mangold\u00a0and the long-awaited<\/a>\u00a0Constantine\u00a0sequel starring\u00a0Keanu Reeves.\u00a0So it sounds like things are well and truly dead with\u00a0Justice League Dark, but there was a completed script, and del Toro is doing press for Frankenstein. He was recently on the Happy Sad Confused podcast<\/a> (via GamesRadar+<\/a>) and revealed that John Constantine, our favorite bisexual disaster, would have been the lead, but also teased a cameo from another big DC hero and revealed who the villain would have been.<\/p>\n

“It was John Constantine, and the plot made absolute sense, perfect sense,” del Toro revealed. “I loved that screenplay. I was in love with that screenplay. I thought it brought everybody in effortlessly, you know. \u2026 There was a moment where Batman came in briefly. They said, ‘We need a plane,’ and he said, ‘I know a friend of mine has a plane.’ and then you were in Bruce Wayne’s office. You know I would have loved to have done that, but now I wouldn’t, you know. \u2026 We had the Floronic Man was one of the villains, and it was really great because Swamp Thing was very fleshed out.”<\/p>\n

Del Toro also revealed that he wanted to bring in his frequent collaborator\u00a0Doug Jones as Deadman, “Physically, I could do the suit, and I know his mannerisms and all that.” There was a time when del Toro seemed to detach a bit from Justice League Dark and even handed the directing duties over to\u00a0Doug Liman in August 2016, but that didn’t last long. What we do know is that a completed and revised script is out there somewhere and Gunn and Safran seem more than willing to let creators play in their own separate DC Universe corners [see:\u00a0Matt Reeves] so while this project is very much not in any level of development, a completed\u00a0Justice League Dark script by Guillermo del Toro has got to be tempting for someone to take a stab at.<\/p>\n

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