Justice League: Mortal's cancelation left a big gap in Warner Bros.'s summer 2009 slate, and particularly after The Dark Knight shattered records in summer 2008 the studio needed another big hit for the following year so that there would not be a massive drop-off in financial reporting. The delay happened in August 2008, just three months before the latest Harry Potter was set to hit theaters. delayed the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince back from its Novemrelease to July 17, 2009. The very same day that Variety ran a story revealing that Justice League: Mortal's fate was up in the air, Warner Bros. Warner Bros.'s cancelation of Justice League: Mortal had a huge impact on the future of DC films, the superhero genre, and even other big movie series. Meanwhile, the studio fast-tracked Green Lantern and started developing a Superman reboot that became Man of Steel. While the studio originally conceived Justice League: Mortal as a way to both relaunch the Superman franchise following the box office disappointment of Superman Returns and serve as a potential launch for other heroes, the surprise success of The Dark Knight had the studio reassess their plans, keeping the emphasis on Christopher Nolan's take on Batman allowing the director to make a third film, The Dark Knight Rises. happening regarding the DC film characters. Related: Every Actor Who Played Batman, RankedMeanwhile, there was a shift at Warner Bros. Production was quickly moved to Canada, with filming set for July 2008, and it appeared the studio would not meet their planned summer 2009 release date. a 40% tax rebate as they felt they had not hired enough Australian actors despite the film consisting of an Australian crew, and three of the major stars (Gale, Palmer, and Keays-Bryne) were Australian natives. The film was originally set to film in Australia, but the Australian government denied Warner Bros. When the strike ended in February 2008, Miller wanted to begin filming soon, but production was delayed for three months. First, the movie began casting right as the 2007 Writer's Guild of America Strike began. Justice League: Mortal ran into a perfect storm of production issues. While in the comics it is Wonder Woman who kills Maxwell Lord, Justice League: Mortal makes a controversial decision to have it be by Batman's hand. It also was inspired by the storyline "Superman: Sacrifice" which sees Maxwell Lord take control of Superman to fight the Justice League. It drew from a variety of comics, particularly the storyline of someone stealing information to take down the Justice League from Batman is from the Justice League storyline "Tower of Babel." It drew heavy inspiration from many of the then-new storylines from the build-up to Infinite Crisis, particularly with the Maxwell Lord being the villain and the OMAC Project and Brother Eye satellite. The film culminates in the Justice League battling a wave of OMAC soldiers, nanotech-infected humans, in a scene very similar to the battle of New York in The Avengers which would be released years later. Lord is the sole survivor of the psychic experiments birthed from the OMAC Project and now plans to use his abilities to take over the world and slaughter the metahumans that might stand in his way. The plot of Justice League: Mortal focused on the villainous Maxwell Lord hacking into Batman's Brother Eye Computer satellite to gain information on the weakness of various superheroes.
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