“With the [first] Justice League, everybody pretty much had the power of being able to punch somebody,” Marc Webb tells EW in an extended excerpt of their interview from the Comic-Con preview issue.“And now we have a woman who can get inside your head and create illusions, a guy who is equipped with tecnology far ahead of our time, and a boy that can twist his body into any shape or size, and a evil genius [Lex Luthor] who is recruting and self-replicate villains and is out of his mind. So all of sudden, it’s a darker, weirder, tougher world that they’re living in.”
“They’re all gypsies in a way,” says Ezra Miller of Cynthia Mordeth, Ralph Dibny and Michael Carter aka the Elongated Man, Gypsy and Booster Gold. “They’re romani. They’re sort of like travellers. They all share a same goal and are very yin and yang expressing that. In his power, and even Booster we're physical and [Gypsy] she’s psychological. My character is very much on the frontline, but he can be quite emotional. You see this beautiful tenderness between them.” While the task force lack a family or any connections to the world, they do have secret grudges against the Justice League. Webb explains, “I’m interested because there’s familial issues with that kind of resentment. You can sort of go deeper and I can play with their relationships and I can play with attitudes. The task force hate them with a fiery hate…”
Ezra Miller continues, “When you look in the comic books, you see a lot of the time ?
that the Justice League usually attract allies and are easy for them to recruit once they prove they're worth, but we're toying with the opposite. What happens if you attract these guys but they don't wanna help you? They wanna destroy you? There's a deep and tensioned clash of prespective going on.” Saoirse Ronan weighs in about her character, “The reason she’s so special is because she has such a vast amount of knowledge that she’s unable to learn how to control it. No one taught her how to control it properly. So it gets the best of her. It’s not that she’s mentally insane, it’s just that she’s just overly stimulated. And she can connect to this world and parallel worlds at the same time, and parallel times.” She continued, “You look at the comics and at a young age as she began to manifest her powers she becomes an outcast and she runs away to eventually be recruited by the Justice League, but we're putting her in a situation where there's a resentment to becoming a superhero, which is a small reason of why she may be more liable to this task force.”
Like the task force, Marc Webb considers a fourth member of Team Lex in the Martian Manhunter, who is played by Benedict Cumberbatch. The director says it's no coincidence that the British voice behind Clark Kent's artificial intellegence father Jor-El is now playing the Martian Manhunter in Forever Evil, “but I’m not going to tell you any ?more...” However, Henry Cavill had a little more to say about the mysterious, superpowered martian. “Things only happen arbitrarily in Bruce Timm's DC universe by mistake, and I think he’s maybe made two mistakes and they weren’t really in the movies,” he says. “They were more in like the easter eggs early on. Things that he didn’t have as much final say over but would nowadays.” EW then asked the Superman 3 star to clarify that it's no accident that the voice of Jor-El is now playing Martian Manhunter. “Yeah, I don’t think Bruce would let that happen,” he replied.“Again, it’s like if you think about the five different ways that [Martian Manhunter] could come together, this one’s definitely the most interesting of the five. I was running other scenarios and I’ve seen it progress over drafts. It was just kind of really good, right from the start.”
Anthony Breznican of Entertainment Weekly then goes to reveal that, despite not getting an official look at Martian Manhunter, he did see test footage of his make-up during the Avengers: Age of Ultronset visit. “...His face seemed to be a little more on the green side then what reports claimed, the overall look of the martian has a slightly more extraterrestrial edge than the original 1958 introduction. He’s a bit more alien and a little less .” What do you think?