Adam Brody looks back on when he almost played the Flash in George Miller’s JUSTICE LEAGUE MORTAL

George Miller’S Deadly Justice League it’s one of the greatest DC movies ever made. I would have liked to see Miller get to do his thing Justice League movie in 2008, but it just wasn’t meant to be. Shazam! stars Adam Brody AND DJ Corona they were originally cast in the movie as Flash and Superman, and in a recent interview with CB, Brody looked back and talked about the unmade movie and thinks it would have been a really good movie! He told CB:

“It’s good to have a DJ in this. We share that piece of history. It was honestly pretty short. I think he’s been in Australia longer than me – I think he was picked before me, and I think he was out there training. I’ve been out there for a couple of weeks. We were doing some table reading and some notetaking sessions. George Miller is a genius and there are really eccentric and nice people around him. I fully believed it. I really liked the script and thought it was going to be really good. In retrospect, and seeing what he did with Mad Max, I just think that much, but who knows? Maybe the “what could have been” is better than what would have been.”

The film was also going to star Megan Gale as Wonder Woman, Santiago Cabrera as Aquaman, Common as Green Lantern, Hammer of the Army like Batman, e Hugh Keays-Byrne as Martian Manhunter. Jay Baruchelwho was set to play Maxwell Lord in the film, previously spoke about his experience, saying:

“I can talk about the crazy fucking fever dream that George Miller’s Justice League: Mortal would have been. I just spent ten minutes talking shit about acting, but my time in Australia with him is everything I love about the job. He treated it like a game. We worked it. We had a full playwright on set and did super, super serious Meisner technical shit and hacked and unpacked the script just for its own sake. It was art for art. George is one of the most important filmmakers of all time and part of the reason I wanted to be a director was Road Warrior. I have no idea what they did in the new one but in ours we had PK and blood coming out of my tear ducts and a lot of crazy shit that would have been awesome to do. We were painting in quite vivid operatic colors.

In case you are curious about this film and the story it was going to tell, you can read a detailed analysis of the script here or watch a live reading here. You can check out many more details about the unmade film here!