Why did they never make a SuperFriends movie?
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WWu777 — 18 years ago(March 26, 2008 03:03 PM)
Why did they make a movie about Spiderman, a bunch of movies about Superman, and then Batman too, and then the stupid boring X-Men who have no charisma, but they never made a movie about the SuperFriends, a team of legendary super heros. I don't get it. There is so much potential in such a movie, so much that can be done with a team of super heros.
The characters on X Men and Fantastic Four were boring and uninspiring. Yet movies were made about them but not the SuperFriends? I don't get it.
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grendelkhan — 16 years ago(June 18, 2009 08:22 PM)
Groups of that size are hard to balance in a two hour movie. It's not for lack of trying. The letter pages of the JLA comics of the 70's used to feature all kinds of casting suggestions, usually whoever was hot at the moment. Some of the ones I can recal were Nick Nolte (!) as Aquaman, Cheryl Ladd as Black Canary, Lee Majors (!!!) as the Flash and various others. Peter Lupus was suggested as Superman, based on armed forces recruiting ads he did as the character. Once Christopher Reeve was cast as Superman, he was the favorite, as was Lynda Carte for WW. Adam West, amazingly, was usually the choice for Batman, despite the camp.
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HellboundHero — 13 years ago(February 16, 2013 10:20 PM)
Adam West, amazingly, was usually the choice for Batman, despite the camp.
Considering it was the 70s and only a few years removed from the tv series which was responsible for a lot of Batman's popularity, it's not really that surprising. Plus this is before Batman went grimdark. -
grendelkhan — 11 years ago(March 15, 2015 04:06 PM)
Not quite the same thing. That was a direct to video feature, adapting DC: The New frontier. It's not really even a Justice League story; rather, it is a story set at the onset of the Silver Age, which brings the various heroes together, to set up their eventual formation of the Justice League.
Fortunately, Ah keep mah feathers numbered for just such an emergency!