Since, according to my fancasting world, Marvel came out with an Avengers movie in 1970. D.C. had to do something. Realizing that the corny Adam West Batman was doing them no good against Steve McQueen and the others, they fought back by making the JLA into an epic movie 2 YEARS LATER. (Note: I’ve recast Tom Selleck’s Iron Man to Martin Sheen in my original Avengers fancast) they couldn’t hire all of the greats already snagged by Marvel so here is the cast they’ve chosen: The original 7 and a suitable villain for each. Superman leads his team (that’s the way it was back then) with a formidable Batman his 2nd in command. Sinestro leads his with Black Manta his #2. Got all my info from wiki. Thanks wiki.
JLA
Tom Selleck as Superman: at 6’4” he is every bit the man Superman should be. I've got 2 pics of Selleck, 1 as he looks in 1972 and 2 as he looks without a stashe (he's gotta be late 50's in the 2nd rather than 27 like the 1st pic
The story of is that he was born Kal-El on the planet Krypton, before being rocketed to Earth as an infant by his scientist father Jor-El, moments before Krypton's destruction. Discovered and adopted by a Kansas farmer and his wife, the child is raised as Clark Kent and imbued with a strong moral compass. Very early he started to display superhuman abilities, which upon reaching maturity he resolved to use for the benefit of humanity. Superman has also been referred to as "The Man of Steel", "The Man of Tomorrow", and "The Last Son of Krypton." As an influential archetype of the superhero genre, Superman possesses extraordinary powers, with the character traditionally described as "faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound." For most of his existence, Superman's famous arsenal of powers has included flight, super-strength, invulnerability to non-magical attacks, super-speed, vision powers (including x-ray, heat-emitting, telescopic, infra-red, and microscopic vision), super-hearing, and super-breath, which enables him to blow out air at freezing temperatures, as well as exert the propulsive force of high-speed winds.
James Brolin as Batman: also at 6’4” and darker than his T.V. counterpart, he is a much better and clearly different Dark Knight
Having witnessed the murder of his parents as a child, he swore revenge on crime, an oath tempered with the greater ideal of justice. Wayne trains himself both physically and intellectually and dons a bat-themed costume in order to fight crime. Unlike most superheroes, he does not possess any superpowers; he makes use of intellect, detective skills, science and technology, wealth, physical prowess, an indomitable will and intimidation in his continuous war on crime.
Valerie Leon as Wonder Woman: 5’11”
Leon appeared in several of the Carry On films and has been a Bond girl (playing the "hotel receptionist" in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)and the "Lady in Bahamas" in Never Say Never Again (1983). Other supporting appearances include Revenge of the Pink Panther, The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (as the secretary Tanya), a hotel receptionist in The Italian Job, and a callgirl in No Sex Please, We're British, alongside fellow Carry On actress Margaret Nolan. The 1971 Hammer horror film Blood from the Mummy's Tomb offered Leon a rare lead role, as a reincarnated Egyptian queen.
Wonder Woman is an Amazon (based on the Amazons of Greek mythology) and was created by Marston, an American, as a "distinctly feminist role model whose mission was to bring the Amazon ideals of love, peace, and sexual equality to a world torn by the hatred of men." Her powers include superhuman strength, flight, super-speed, super-stamina, and super-agility. She is highly proficient in hand-to-hand combat and in the art of tactical warfare. She also possesses an animal-like cunning and a natural rapport with animals, which has in the past been presented as an actual ability to communicate with the animal kingdom. She uses her Lasso of Truth, which forces those bound by it to tell the truth, a pair of indestructible bracelets, a tiara which serves as a projectile.
Warren Beatty as Barry Allen/Flash
DC reimagined them as new characters for the modern age. The Flash was the first revival. This new Flash was Barry Allen, a police scientist who gained super-speed when bathed by chemicals after a shelf of them was struck by lightning. He adopted the name The Flash after reading a comic book featuring the Golden Age Flash.[3] After several more appearances in Showcase, Allen's character was given his own title. The Silver Age Flash proved popular enough that several other Golden Age heroes were revived in new incarnations. A new superhero team, the Justice League of America, was also created, with the Flash as a main, charter member.
Harrison Ford as Green Lantern/Hal Jordan: Lantern was modeled after Paul Newman who, by this time, was nearly 50 and therefor a bit to old to play the youngest Leaguer (although Ford is 3 years older than Selleck)
A new Green Lantern was introduced in 1959. This Green Lantern was Hal Jordan, a test pilot who was given a power ring by a dying alien, Abin Sur, and who became a member of the Green Lantern Corps, an interstellar organization of police overseen by the Guardians of the Universe. The Corps' rings were powerless against anything colored yellow, due to a necessary impurity in the ring. Artist Gil Kane saw Jordan as a handsome high society playboy.
Dennis Hopper as Aquaman: Very few people can make Arthur Curry seem cool
Arthur Curry is the son of Tom Curry, a lighthouse keeper, and Atlanna, a water-breathing outcast from the lost, underwater city of Atlantis. Due to his heritage, Aquaman discovered as a youth that he possessed various superhuman abilities, including the powers of surviving underwater, communication with sea life, and tremendous swimming prowess. Eventually, Arthur decided to use his talents to become the defender of the Earth's oceans. Aquaman eventually met the Atlanteans and became their ally. He was recognized as the son of Atlanna and later voted to be the King after the death of the former regent, who had no heirs.
Yul Brynner as Matian Manhunter
Aside from his superhuman powers, the Manhunter is also a skilled and very capable detective. As Batman mentions in his file, "in many ways, Martian Manhunter is like an amalgam of Superman and the Dark Knight himself." One of the Martian Manhunter's signature traits is his vulnerability to flame.
INJUSTICE GANG
Frank Langella as Bizarro: I did’t want to use Selleck here. I wantes an evil looking guy that could duke it perfectly onscreen in 1972 with the tall Selleck. Langella is 6’4”
Bizarro is depicted as having all the abilities of Superman, although in some incarnations several of these traits have been reversed, such as "freeze vision" instead of heat vision, "flame breath" instead of freeze breath, "vacuum breath" instead of super breath. This also applies to weaknesses, as Bizarro is vulnerable to blue kryptonite, as opposed to green kryptonite, which is lethal to Superman.
Peter Fonda as Deadshot: There’s a certain arostocracy and craziness about Fonda which is perfect for Deadshot
Deadshot is often a hired assassin, regularly boasting to "never miss." He is capable of using a large variety of weapons, but is most frequently portrayed as using a pair of silenced, wrist-mounted guns. He initially appears in Gotham City as a new crimefighter, but is revealed to be an enemy of Batman when he attempts to replace the Dark Knight. He is sent to jail when Batman and Commissioner Gordon publicly expose his plot to become the king of Gotham's underworld. After serving his term, Deadshot begins hiring his services out as an assassin, changing his costume from the top coat and tails he previously wore to a red jumpsuit and distinctive metal face plate with a targeting device on the right side.His most defining trait is a desire to die in a spectacular fashion.
Richard Harris as Ares/Mars
As do all the Olympian gods, Ares possesses tremendous strength, though he is now perhaps the physically strongest of them, except perhaps for Heracles[citation needed]. Moreover, he is a master of conflict and strategy, and has complete command over any weapon. Pertaining to his being a war god, violence and bloodshed make him stronger. His armor is virtually indestructible and his weapons are greater than mortal ones.
Jon Voight as Professor Zoom
Eobard Thawne was a criminal from the 25th century, who found a time capsule containing the Flash's costume. He was able to use a machine to amplify the suit's speed energy, giving himself the abilities of the Flash as long as he wore it. In the process, the colors of the costume reversed. He used his speed powers to commit crimes, but was stopped by the Flash, who had travelled forwards in time to witness the time capsule being opened because it also contained an atomic clock which threatened to explode like an atomic bomb. After a destructive battle, the villain was finally defeated when he boasted how he used a chemical coating to protect himself from air friction. Betting that the invisible aura around his body would be superior protection, the Flash seized Zoom and began to push him forward so fast that the intense air friction overwhelmed the coating and the resulting burns forced Zoom to surrender. Blaming the Flash for his defeat, Thawne began travelling back in time to gain revenge, using his knowledge of "history" to his advantage. He also became obsessed with "replacing" Barry Allen.
John Cazale as Sinestro
During his six-year film career he appeared in five films, each of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter. From his start as an acclaimed theater actor he became one of Hollywood's premiere character actors, starting with Coppola's The Godfather in which he played Fredo Corleone, the weak link in the Corleone crime family. "Cazale broke hearts on screen with portrayals of volatile, vulnerable, vacillating men, including Pacino's tragic bank-robbing partner in Dog Day Afternoon." He is described as an actor "whose intense face is known to just about any serious cinema fan but whose name often escapes them.” Cazale was characterized as "an amazing intellect, an extraordinary person and a fine, dedicated artist"
Sinestro wields a yellow power ring that is powered by the emotional energy of fear, and its wielder must be an expert in inspiring and manipulating fear to use it. Built on Qward, it can create yellow energy constructs, flight, etc. Sinestro's original ring could only be recharged by fighting a Green Lantern.
James Earl Jones as Black Manta: c’mon I’m not gonna explain this 1
Black Manta's suit is specifically designed to adapt him to an oceanic environment. It allows him complete resistance to the cold and pressure of deep sea conditions and thus grants him a level of superhuman durability, and strength (allowing Black Manta to lift/strike with the force of 5 tons), the ability to breathe normally underwater (whether this is due to a hidden oxygen supply or its ability to extract oxygen from the water like the gills of a fish is unknown), jet boots which function in or out of water, a telepathic scrambler (used to temporarily strip Aquaman of his aquatic telepathy), and an array of weapons. Such weapons include blades, electric blasts from wrist gauntlets, miniaturized torpedoes, and energy beams from his helmet. He also has a limited degree of expertise in mechanical engineering (as he was able to manufacture his suit, weaponry, and vehicles) and some amount of hand-to-hand combat training.
Gene Hackman as Human Flame: It was very hard to find an enemy for Manhunter. This guy was around for a couple seconds and then not used again until reacently but, he’s as good as the rest here if Gene Hackman helms the part
Michael Miller, the Human Flame, was a minor villain who, early in his career, was captured by the Martian Manhunter and incarcerated. After this one off appearance, he was not seen in publication for nearly fifty years. Grant Morrison explained why he picked such an obscure character: “With The Human Flame, I wanted a Martian Manhunter villain, and I couldn't find a really good one. Then, looking through the old Showcase Presents books, I discovered this stupid guy called Mike, who declared himself to be The Human Flame.”