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the thing is, that short cinematic probably cost way too much and took way too long for it to be economically feasible to make a full length movie in the same style, which would be 15 times as long probably,

maybe if it was a theatrical release, but then it would need more marketing, and WB would probably want to put in bigger names to do the voice work as a Box Office draw, it would probably end up costing a quarter of a billion dollars.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

I don't think it would cost more than the regular CGI-filled flick, or more than a Dreamworks movie. It could be done if they wanted to. But I'll agree that not as a direct to DVD, no.
I still think a Justice League could only be achieved with full CGI, I'll leave it there.

However, I don't know how I feel about Peter Weller as Batman. "Robocop" is my favourite movie (not joking), Weller is the man, The Dark Knight Retuns is great material... But I still have to hear it before buying it.
What do you think about it, have you ever heard him doing something like a Batman's voice, somewhere? Really curious about it.

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I think the Avengers has proved that wrong...

I think Weller is a good choice, even though the ideal person for TDKR Batman is deffinitely Michael Ironside:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoZLPwRCjcQ

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That's the thing, to me Avengers and Justice League are different kinds of beasts.
Avengers took 5 years of good but predictable solo movies to build up. If Warner tries to do that again with JL, they're going to fail inevitably. If they want to do it, it must be all in one film.
But erasing those years of building up the characters takes away the cohesion Avengers had. We were able to believe all those guys could be in the same universe fighting together because they made us believe it through the solo films.

Also, I've always thought Justice League members work better alone, because of how different they are from each other, because of their adventures and the worlds they belong to, because of how different they costumes are, etc. I don't know if I'm making any sense, but to me, the only way to gain the cohesion the Avengers film had in a JL feature film, is have it full CGI. All characters animated with the same tecniques will make them gain that cohesion, and will make clear for the public that they are staying away from any continuity the other DC films had.

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the problem with a JL live actuon movie, is that every time DC tries to do a live action movie of anyone but Batman or superman, it flops. Marvel managed to make 5 non-flops before even tacking the Avengers.

you could ask the question "would GL have been a success if it had some nods to the greater DC universe?" i'd say maybe, but it's too late now, will Man of Steel try to set up a greater DC universe, i personally hope that it does, and then someone can go in and do a Batman reboot in the same way, then i think it would open up a door for a JL movie, but that kind of timescale is quite long, if DC has to do 5 movies to set up a JL movie, even at one movie a year a JL movie would be 5 years away at a minimum. but the could probably get away with doing a CGI JL movie next year, and since it's CGI it could get away with throwing all the characters in together right away.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

man of steel is a reboot/origin story, the best they can do is wait for the sequel to expand upon the dcu

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