Please tell me that Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely are receiving at least some credit for the story. Having said that, it looks like JLU fun.

Where did these images come from? Are there more? (Dig Martian Manhunter in his new costume …)

I would’ve hoped for something closer to the Morrison/Quitely GN.

Shouldn’t earth 3 lex have hair?

Fantastic! It’s interesting that they (Warner-DC) feel the need to give the characters unique looks for each direct-to-DVD project. There’s nothing *wrong* with the variation….but it seems to be a bit of “reinventing the wheel” each time there’s a new project. Sure, with pre-existing stuff like “New Frontier” it makes perfect sense to stay “on model” with Darwyn Cooke’s character design…or to a certain extent the recent Superman/Batman “Public Enemies” thing…but for a JLA story not connected to a specific pre-existing story, why not just use the “Timm style” from the dearly departed JLA animated series?

Again…not a big deal…just curious why they’d spend more money on art development when I’m sure most fans would be fine with the existing character designs….or at the very least a new look for all DC characters that could be applied to all new DVD projects….so there’s some visual continuity between them all.

“It’s interesting that they (Warner-DC) feel the need to give the characters unique looks for each direct-to-DVD project.”

I think it’s more that each film is being done by a different director and team, as well as in some cases being inspired by stories connected to specific artists. Personally, if they do The Judas Contract (may God hear us) I want to see everyone look like the Perez characters, and not the JLU designs.

They may be trying to vary from the JLU/Timmverse look to make sure people know these are separate stories. Plus, what we call “stylized” others might see at “simplistic”

Odd set of choices for the voice actors. Of course, every time they recast Supes, Batman, Joker, and Luthor, I don’t get it. Daly, Conroy, Hamill and Brown ARE the people for those parts. (I know that Daly often has other commitments. I just wish he didn’t).

At least Woods and Torres have done voice work before.

Looks pretty cool… But why recast the voices of Bats, Supes and Luthor? It should be Kevin Conroy, Tim Daly (or George Newbern, if Daly can’t, is perfectly fine) and Clancy Brown.

As Simon says (heh) those guys have defined those roles… Why ever go with anyone else? They all clearly enjoy doing those parts, so that’s a turnoff right there. If it gets good reviews, I might rent this, but probably not buy it.

They should just sign those three to long-term contracts to do those voices over muliple films. Maybe they at least Carl Lumbly back to voice Martian Manhunter?

@ Joe Kach
@ Martin Gray – Read the “JLA: Earth 2″ OGN.

–J.

What, again? Naaaaah, and I’m a huge fan of Quitely and Morrison. It was pretty average, for them.

Not for nothing, but where’s GL’s ring?

“who are basically synonymous with the DCAU.”

This isn’t the DCAU; part of the explanation right there, they want to vary things up.

By the way, that’s clearly Hal as GL, but is Flash going to be Wally or Barry?

Well this ISN’T the DCAU.

The only reason why some people believe these voice actors are synonymous with the roles is because they’ve heard them for years on tv.
That doesn’t necessarily mean they’re the be all end all voices for the characters.

Let me repeat, THIS IS NOT THE DCAU.

Just enjoy these films for the self-contained projects that they are and not try to connect them with past animated portrayals.

On a related note…I wouldn’t have minded seeing Kyle Rayner or Guy Gardner as the Green Lantern in this one too….We’ve had a few with Hal now (New Frontier, First Flight) and John Stewart was the Animated Series GL…I wouldn’t mind seeing a different one in there.

But to me, that’s what makes the DC Animated DVDs great…you can get many interpretations.

You know I too im getting tried of lex not having hair

This is EXTREMELY disappointing. This isn’t actually the first I’m hearing of this project. It is the first I’m hearing of the details, however. I expected this to be the long awaited Justice League: Worlds Collide DC animated universe DTV. It had that potential.

Lets start at the beginning, shall we? Years ago, when they were getting Justice League Unlimited ready there were plans for a Justice League DTV movie that would bridge the gap between JL and JLU. The movie was to be called “Justice League: World’s Collide” and would involve the League encountering the Crime Syndicate from a parallel dimension. For some reason, the film never made it to production.

As you all likely know, Bruce Timm has had a hand in all of the recent DC animated movies. Though none of them were set in the DCAU. And for years Bruce Timm has stated that they may do it some day, and more recently he’s stated that he might be returning to DCAU projects very soon.

I thought that day had finally come. One of the scheduled DC DTVs was this, a movie called “Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths”. The title of the film sounded VERY similar to the concept stated above. To strengthen this possibility one needed only look to the fact that Timm said he may be returning to the DCAU soon, and the big one… Dwayne McDuffie, one of the guiding forces behind JLU was writing the project.

And now we see that this isn’t in the DCAU style, nor does it use the DCAU voice actors. They’ve blown the perfect opportunity to finally tell that story. And now, after making this movie, they’ll probably never get another chance as they won’t be allowed to make the same basic movie twice in two different styles.

Color me upset.

They lost me at Dwayne McDuffie. Also, can we start having some more DC direct-to-vid animation with no involvement from Bruce Timm whatsoever? I love his stuff, but after over a decade of his involvement in DC animated I really want more fresh takes at this point on the pantheon.

What annoys me is that these direct-to-vid movies are often close enough to the Timmverse look and style and feel to be evocative of the Timmverse, but different at the same time. I’d rather they go all out and strike out in a totally different non-Timm direction the way The Batman and Brave and the Bold and Teen Titans did, or they place the movies squarely in the Timmverse and leave it at that. But this quasi, pseudo-Timmverse feel where its kind of different but not really I find annoying.

no Aquaman?…. sigh.

Why would they get any credit at all? All they did was retell a silver age story that was previously told in the 60’s.
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Because many are speculating that his movie is based off of Morrison’s JLA: Earth 2 book.

CTHE3: It’s on his right hand. The angle that the right hand is shown, you can see the fingertip and middle joint, but not the base of the finger where the ring would be.

Make a fist and see for yourself!

When I first heard about this project about a month ago, I was really excited about it. Any chance to see the JL in animated action is welcomed(except for the Teen Titans/anime style). I was hoping it would be “Crisis on Infinite Earths” but hey, I’ll take this. I like the Crime Syndicate and it’ll be fun to see them in animation for the first time(except Owlman, of course). Don’t much care about voices because the actors chosen to voice parts usually sounds very different from their normal voice, so I’ll reserve judgement until hearing/seeing it.Looking forward to it!

“William Baldwin (Dirty Sexy Money) as Batman”

Sorry, wrong answer!

Nope, I’ll skip it just for that bit of info.

I agree with Ace. I was really hoping this would be the “Justice League: Worlds Collide” story, but it looks like that won’t be the case. Or maybe it is “Worlds Collide,” only rewritten/recasted so that it doesn’t take place in the DCAU. Sigh…

It’s simple, Bruce Timm wanted to do something that didn’t fit in with the continuity he already established. Hence the recasting that’s been done on these films. The only reason we’ve had Daly, Conroy, Brown and CCH Ponder on “Public Enemies” is because casting director Andrea Romero wanted to work with them on that. And we had Conroy in “Gotham Knight” because they couldn’t get Christan Bale. Otherwise, Timm and company decided to be completely different. The animation styles on most of these are different from the norm because it makes it easier to have them fluid, rather than stiff looking.

The reason people are saying that Morrison and Quietly should be credited is because this is closer to what they did in 2000, as opposed to what Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky did. Fox and Sekowsky may have invented it, but Morrison and Quietly’s work is the clear influence here.

Can only be jazzed about this!

I am also interested in when we’ll see Teen Titans: Judas Contract animated movie. I believe it was postponed for Batman: Gotham Knights and we’ve seen Wonder Woman, GL, Public Enemies, and now this with no word on the status of that animated movie. Here’s hoping it is still in the works…

i like hal and all but Kyle was in the story if your gonna have wally might as well have kyle i mean he’s had what? two episodes on superman? an appereance on justice League and if i’m not mistake duck dodgers while Hal has had two movies (that Frointer movie i count as a hal jordan movie) plus live action in two years why not give kyle time to shine?

didnt read the story explaining J’onn’s new look but loved it never understood the straps and underwear with no pants but anyway excited about this but thought it was gonna be the Justice League and the Justice society team up sigh was sorta looking forward to that…

No to the Baldwin as Batman. The others are okay.

A previous poster was right. Morrison and Quitely did not come up with that plot. They simply retold a Silver Age story. That would be like giving John Byrne credit for creating Superman because he retold his story in “Man of Steel”.

cool can not wait for wanted to see the crime sydicate for so long in other dc versions as for the judas contract resurected someone should tell suggest that to Diana the overlord of the dcu in other media. though still waiting for the animators to do kingdom come and dark knight returns animated films

just cuz its not based on Morrison and Quitely’s Earth 2 doesnt mean it wasnt obviously inspired by it. I think its really crappy of McDuffie to take a story by another creator put a slightly differnt spin on it and pass it off as his own idea. Must be his way of getting back at DC editorial for firing him from JLA.

Why Superman, Why?!?

Just to chime in, I too would like to see them walk away into more creative territories from the Timmverse. I really liked those for their time, but i was hoping that they were actually going to try to give us a DTV experience that resembles contemporary comics in terms of art and story. I think most of these resemble more the stories of the 70′s and 80′s in that they are aimed at younger audiences with the complexity of today’s books, or after Iron Man and Dark Knight, today’s movies. I hope the delay in Judas Contract means they’re trying to get it right, as opposed to the Timm version of the story.

And didn’t they do this story, or a version of it, already on the JLU show? Sure they didn’t call him Owlman or Ultraman, but it was the same story.

How do you make an animated Batman movie and NOT cast Kevin Conroy.

I can’t wait. I loved JLA Earth 2.

I love NCIS and I Love that the Actor who Play Gibbs is playing Superman as far as what they look like who care Superman was in his first appear look like Lex so who care what they look like and who care if the story been done before

Didn’t WarnerBros/DC get the memo?

Cell-animation is dead!

Hal’s ring is on the back of his right hand.

all-star voice cast huh? like people that watch cartoons care. as long as it’s the best voice for the character, that’s all i care about. a celeb name lends no credibility in my book.

If the film credited ANYONE for inspiration, it should be: CRIME SYNDICATE CREATED BY GARDNER FOX AND MIKE SEKOWSKY.

Especially since Dwayne McDuffie has already revealed the story is a departure from Fox’s original CRISIS ON EARTH 3 story from the 1960s.

Anyway, it looks cool. Can’t wait to see Johnny Quick vs. the Flash, and Power Ring vs. Green Lantern!

To Anonymous: No, look at it again. You can see the whole fist, on both hands. The ring is missing.

Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

I think it is great that with SM/BM Public Enemies, GL First Flight, Gotham Knights and now this, DC is officially burying the HORRIBLE art and writing style of the “Timmverse”. The DCU reimmagined as a villain-centric world drawn like a reject version of Dick Tracey was NOT official. Blocky stiff LOUSY. Watching Timmverse episodes of Superman constantly getting whupped by scrubs and Batman whupping on gods while Lex Luthor is portrayed as some kind of untouchable anti-hero/deity got tiresome as well. And then there was that awful art. But since SM Doomsday (TERRIBLE) DC has been getting it right with their DTV’s (trying at least). One thing worries me. Dwayne McDuffie. He has always turned in the WORST most villain-centric DCAU scripts of them all. He really hates these characters! Remember the JLU’s when that scrub from the future and some cyber-punks kills the ENTIRE JL. Or when the android whups the entire JL (until godly Luthor saves the day). Then there was his terrible run on the JL comic where the villains “shame” the JL into protecting the poor villaind from being persecuted by the “evil” government law enforcement who wanted to punish them for thir crimes (perish the thought). See a pattern in his scripts? Thank god DC fired him. Him attached to this project is not a good look AT ALL.

I’d actually like them to do Batman: Long Halloween more than anything. Or possible “Final Crisis” There would be no way to dodge having to animate Superboy aka Connor Kent.

They’ve blown the perfect opportunity to finally tell that story. And now, after making this movie, they’ll probably never get another chance as they won’t be allowed to make the same basic movie twice in two different styles.

James Woods as Owlman? Perfect match. Always thought of Owlman as being as snarky and arrogant. We’ll just wait and see with the other guys.

Mark Harmon did an amazing job as the superman voice actor. Loved it.

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