{"id":308489,"date":"2025-12-10T08:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308489\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T08:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:09:11","slug":"del-toro-talks-scrapped-justice-league-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308489\/","title":{"rendered":"Del Toro Talks Scrapped “Justice League Dark”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>DC Comics<\/p>\n

Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has offered some new details about his famously scrapped \u201cJustice League Dark\u201d movie.<\/p>\n

The long-gestating project was set up at DC and Warner Bros. Pictures prior to the establishment of the Gunn\/Safran-led DC Studios. Del Toro came aboard in 2013 in a story that would follow John Constantine recruiting Swamp Thing, Madame Xanadu, Deadman and Zatanna to take on the villain, the Floronic Man.<\/p>\n

Making an appearance on Josh Horowitz\u2019s Happy Sad Confused<\/a> podcast, del Toro confirms that Batman would\u2019ve had a brief cameo in his film, and he already had one talent in mind for a role:<\/p>\n

\u201cI was not casting yet. I knew I wanted Doug Jones to be Deadman, only because physically he could do the suit, and I knew his mannerisms. I loved that screenplay, I was in love with [it]. I thought it brought everyone in effortlessly.<\/p>\n

The plot made absolute perfect sense. I really loved how they got tangled. We had the Floronic Man as one of the villains. It was really great because Swamp Thing was very fleshed out.<\/p>\n

There was a moment when Batman came in briefly. They said, \u2018We need a plane,\u2019 and \u2018A friend of mine has a plane,\u2019 and then you were in Bruce Wayne\u2019s office. I would have loved to have done it. Now, I wouldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether he has had conversations with James Gunn about a potential revival, he said he hasn\u2019t approached Gunn about it:<\/p>\n

\u201cNow and then, I write him about something else he\u2019s doing right. I think he\u2019s remarkably smart [and] I loved Superman. I really enjoy the way he\u2019s viewing the universe. The screenplay is there. It was a couple of years of development. We never got to the art. It had great set pieces. My favourite one was a chase with Deadman jumping from one body to the next.\u201d<\/p>\n

Del Toro exited the project back in 2015, Doug Liman then took over before subsequently also exiting. In 2020, the plans were scrapped in favour of a live-action TV series produced by J.J. Abrams. That was cancelled in development.<\/p>\n

Del Toro also spoke about his favourite video games of all time in the interview, name-checking \u201cBioShock,\u201d \u201cDeath Stranding,\u201d \u201cMetal Gear Solid,\u201d \u201cShadow of the Colossus,\u201d \u201cLeft 4 Dead,\u201d \u201cRed Dead Redemption\u201d, and \u201cGod of War\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DC Comics Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has offered some new details about his famously scrapped \u201cJustice League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-308489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}