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    ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to the Justice League
    ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to the Justice League
    ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to the Justice League
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    ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to the Justice League

    By The Editors of Entertainment Weekly

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    The League's finally all here to-what else? Save the world.

    Justice League has arrived. One of the most formidable collections of superheroes the world has ever known is together on the big screen. Entertainment Weekly takes you behind the scenes and onto the set, including exclusive interviews with the cast and creators, in this all-new collector's edition, The Ultimate Guide to Justice League. They're all here-Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg, the Flash and, yes, Superman-with character profiles, concept art, costumes, origin stories and more. Stuffed with insider information, including a history of the Justice League in comic-book form and a discussion of each superhero's or -heroine's past and future on the big screen, this comprehensive guide will delight readers of all ages. Interviews with the cast, including Gal Gadot, Ben Affleck, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher and Henry Cavill, are featured. It's time to join the battle for the future of the world!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEntertainment Weekly
    Release dateNov 10, 2017
    ISBN9781547840649
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      ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to the Justice League - The Editors of Entertainment Weekly

      Inside the Film

      ILLUSTRATION BY RICH KELLY

      United They Stand

      The Justice League’s all here. The massive superhero mash-up, long cloaked in secrecy, finally hits theaters with an unbeatable roster of good guys coming together to (what else?) save the world. Getting them there was an act of heroism. By Darren Franich

      From left: Jason Momoa as Aquaman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Ezra Miller as the Flash and Ray Fisher as Cyborg as key allies ready to fight together.

      Ezra Miller recalls the excitement of the early days of Justice League. The young actor had made an indie-fabulous name off attention-getting turns in We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Then Zack Snyder, the director of 2013’s Man of Steel, tapped Miller for Justice.

      All the initial conversations that I had with Zack Snyder were so mind-blowing, Miller says now. It’s hard to fathom how much work and thought that dude puts into everything he does. A lot of those conversations took place over the 4-in.-thick leather-bound books in which Zack Snyder illustrates every frame of every movie he shoots, some of them in vivid detail.

      Miller (Barry Allen, better known as the Flash) wasn’t merely being cast in a film. He was joining a universe at a moment of aggressive expansion. Snyder initially cast Miller for a short cameo in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Miller was among many new faces the director assembled for his massive superhero brawl. Say what you will, but Batman v Superman was very, very big—pitting Henry Cavill’s tall Superman against Ben Affleck’s equally tall Batman. And the titular titan clash was just the warm-up: It didn’t encompass the fiery arrival of Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman.

      As box office receipts for Batman v Superman skyrocketed last spring, Snyder went into production on Justice League, a successor film that would unite Gadot and Affleck with Miller and fellow franchise newbies Ray Fisher (as Cyborg) and Jason Momoa (as Aquaman). What could go wrong?

      It sold a lot of tickets, says Affleck now. It did what it was intended to do. He’s being modest—the movie grossed $873 million globally—but that modesty speaks to the mixed reactions the film inspired. Some people liked it; some people bashed it, the Oscar-winning star admits. It’s always a little thorny playing with characters the audience already knows. You’re sticking your neck out a little with movies like this.

      True. Affleck’s Batman reappeared in last year’s Suicide Squad, another film that earned big money—and polarized audiences. But this summer Gadot’s Diana took center stage in Wonder Woman, which critics and moviegoers universally adored and has sparked serious Oscar talk.

      "I’m so happy to see the success of the franchise through Gal and through Wonder Woman," says Amy Adams, who helped kick-start this whole mega-universe as Lois Lane in 2013’s Man of Steel. The perennial Oscar nominee is back in Justice League, but don’t ask her what the movie’s about. When I watch it, I’m going to find out, she says with a laugh, admitting that she only got the script pages for her scenes. I’m happy to be a supporting player in all of this.

      In Justice League, everyone’s a supporting player. It begins with Batman’s uniting Earth’s superheroes in the face of a villainous cosmic force. I wanted Bruce Wayne to build the Justice League, Snyder told EW in 2016, having to go out and find these seven samurai by himself. He’s been successful. To defend Earth from a cosmic threat, Affleck says, his Batman brings the heroes "to the Batcave and lets them in on the central conflict of the story: who the enemy is. There’s a little bit of The Magnificent Seven aspect to it."

      Justice League is a different kind of film from its moody predecessor. Veteran producer Charles Roven, who’s been working with DC heroes since 2005’s Batman Begins, views the process of crafting Justice League as a healthy evolution from the reaction to Batman v Superman. We were heading down a particular creative path, but it definitely made us look at some of the aspects of that path, he says.

      The idea was always that this would be a lighter movie with a lighter tone, says Affleck. That means a new dynamic between Batman and Wonder Woman. They’ve got a little bit of an unusual romantic tension between them, Affleck says. Meanwhile, recruits Cyborg and the Flash must learn how to navigate a superheroic world that is decidedly new to them. They’re the youngest members of the group, explains Fisher, who plays Cyborg, and they’re the only members of the Justice League who have gotten their powers via the results of accidents.

      Fisher’s the freshest newcomer, with just a couple IMDB credits and a well-received onstage turn as Muhammad Ali before his casting. Cyborg’s also probably the least iconic League hero (unless you’re young enough to have watched the Teen Titans cartoon). The Flash is more familiar to audiences; Grant Gustin plays Barry Allen on the eponymous CW show. For Miller, there’s something unique about the film’s ability to throw so many heroes together. I love so much about the superhero-team framework, Miller says. It disrupts this romance surrounding individual heroism. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.

      That team framework was on display at Comic-Con International in July when the cast assembled for a high-energy panel. At one point the ever-boisterous Momoa threw his chair, then picked it up and threw it again. But offstage new difficulties were arising. Just the day before the panel, a story from The Hollywood Reporter claimed Warner Bros. was planning to wind down Affleck’s tenure as Batman after Justice League. At the time, Snyder had departed from the project because of a family tragedy—which meant he already wasn’t present for what turned out to be the summer’s extensive reshoots.

      About those reshoots: Zack decided that he wanted to do some additional photography, clarifies Roven. For

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