The Legion of Super-Heroes has been around since 1958, debuting two years before the Justice League and 18 years after the Justice Society, the first superhero team in history. However, while both DC Comics groups have featured prominently in live-action films in recent years, Legion hasn’t been known to be given the same honor. But if the day comes for these 31st century characters to appear on the big screen, Josie Campbell, who wrote DC’s direct-to-video animated film legion of superheroesYou already know the “key element” you would like to see there.
Having already written for The Teen Titans go! AND Justice League action, legion of superheroesthe latest episode of Tomorrowverse continuity after last year Green Lantern: Beware of my power (which can be streamed with an HBO Max subscription), gave him the opportunity to work on a DC-related project aimed at an older audience. But as my conversation with her progressed, Campbell shared that she’s been a Legion of Super-Heroes fan for a long time, so between that and writing this new movie, I asked her what was the main thing she would loved to see in a live-action movie focused on the legion. She answered:
I think if they did a live action version…it would be difficult, because I feel the key thing I’d like to see is also the hardest part to translate, which is that the Legion isn’t just one. type of power or type of person. To put it bluntly, they are a bunch of crazy people. It’s a group of people with strange powers and strange histories coming together. It’s really hard to do, but I think if you were going to do a live-action Legion story, you have to accept the fact that it’s a bunch of weirdos coming to save the world.
In fact, the Legion of Super-Heroes is made up of a bunch of weirdos, even by superhero standards. Even just looking at the image above the animation legion of superheroes movie, you can check out Arm-Fall-Off Boy and Bouncing Boy, two characters with some of the dumbest powers to ever grace DC Comics lore. But as Josie Campbell sees it, a live-action film legion of superheroes the movie needs to embrace that quirk rather than stray from it to stand out from the crowd. Frankly, in my opinion, if you have the right filmmakers behind it, Legion of Super-Heroes could be the DC equivalent of what Guardians of the Galaxy was to the MCU.
A handful of Legion of Super-Heroes characters have already been adapted into live-action for small town AND super girland the team’s other notable appearances outside of comics include their own anime series that aired in the mid-2000s, Superman: The Animated Series, League of Justice Unlimited AND Justice League vs the Fatal Five. In 2015, DC was rumored to be developing a live-action film. legion of superheroes movie, but nothing ever came of it. While there are five upcoming DC movies and five upcoming DC TV shows on the slate for the “Gods and” Monsters era of the DC Universe, perhaps DC Studios head James Gunn and Peter Safran can find a spot for the team. afterwards.
As for this anime legion of superheroes The film, which opens Tuesday, February 7 at Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, follows Meg Donnelly’s Supergirl journey into the 31st century to train at the Legion Academy, where she’ll meet a variety of colorful characters, including Brainiac 5, played by Harry Shum Jr. (who will now play a villain in a live-action film). of action superheroes). Director Jeff Wamester was “excited” to take on Legion after directing Justice Society: World War II AND Green Lantern: Beware of my powerand the cast also includes Darren Criss, Jensen Ackles, Darren Criss and Yuri Lowenthal, among many others.
Source: Cinemablend
