{"id":45138,"date":"2014-09-11T19:14:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T01:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/11\/or-perhaps-a-legion-of-super-heroes-film.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T13:52:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T19:52:19","slug":"or-perhaps-a-legion-of-super-heroes-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/11\/or-perhaps-a-legion-of-super-heroes-film.html","title":{"rendered":"Or perhaps a &quot;Legion of Super-Heroes&quot; film?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing the LSH right would be an interesting challenge. There&#39;s a deep seam of Silver Age cheer and adventure in them that would be a tough sell, and an intrinsic nature of being a huge cast of characters that would also be tough to make work in a 2.5 hour flick.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m not sure I trust WB\/DC these days to do an LSH film that would be worthy of the name (they certainly fell on their face with their New52 edition. The direction of making it all grim-n-gritty has never worked very well with the Legion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.blastr.com\/2014-9-9\/rumor-day-warner-bros-has-another-superhero-team-film-works'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/sLRcNw6Xitr4QRYLXofFACISY1pJzyHKEGHsDkvctfSxRgcRLzZc95Cvyho_oQf9LwIF9oIqDT-MT2HHG9FUR9ogTzMlZtShiY2ns9W4Yck=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.blastr.com\/2014-9-9\/rumor-day-warner-bros-has-another-superhero-team-film-works'>Rumor of the Day: Warner Bros. has another superhero team film in the works<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe Justice League might not be the only superteam coming to the DC Comics movie universe.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/JruqacoCj5A'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing the LSH right would be an interesting challenge. There&#39;s a deep seam of Silver Age cheer and adventure in them that would be a tough sell, and an intrinsic nature of being a huge cast of characters that would also be tough to make work in a 2.5 hour flick. I&#39;m not sure I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/11\/or-perhaps-a-legion-of-super-heroes-film.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Or perhaps a &quot;Legion of Super-Heroes&quot; film?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,11,852,41,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-media-movies","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4660,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/26\/bt03_hey_kids_s.html","url_meta":{"origin":45138,"position":0},"title":"BT03 &#8211; Hey, Kids!  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