Adam Brody, costar of the upcoming horror film Jennifer's Body, told IGN that he went through a extended preproduction process on Justice League before the film was eventually shelved. "It was an interesting process," Brody said during an interview for his new film, which costars Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried. "It was such a fun time, and I went to Australia for a month and that was great."
Brody, who previously appeared on the television series The O.C., signed on to Justice League to play The Flash for director George Miller (Happy Feet). He admitted that he didn't even know the status of the project, but said that the production was surprisingly unrestrained in terms of revealing - or at least not hiding - details about the characters and script.
"I don't know what's going on with it. Do you?" he joked. "That was an interesting process, and I was always – I always felt so excited, like 'I got the part! Now they're going to take me to the secret bunker in Warner Brothers and debrief us, so nobody can talk about [anything]. It's going to be so official.' But it sort of wasn't, and it didn't feel official, like stuff leaked out, and we're doing stuff like this but we're not supposed to talk about what's going on."
While Brody admitted he probably shouldn't be offering details about the film, he confessed that he did undergo a month long preproduction session in Australia to prepare for playing the comic book character. "I would be really remiss to talk about any of this except for the same reason – nobody said I couldn't," he admitted. "We went to Australia and did like a mini sort of workshop – superhero boot camp, which was superfun and really surreal, because you're sitting at a roundtable like this and someone's like, 'well, Batman wouldn't say that!' And someone's like, 'yeah, but the thing about Superman is…'
"It was so funny because George Miller, he has such respect for actors, probably more than I do, and so it was really fun," Brody continued. "You've got this like $200 million action picture but then you've got this true artist so you're dealing with this like superhero theater camp. Really, really interesting – I had a blast."
Even though Brody offered only a short description of the film's plot, he said that overall security was surprisingly lax when time came to keeping scripts and story information under wraps. "The plot is sort of the forming of the Justice League," he said, perhaps confirming the obvious. "[But] I keep waiting, like 'does anybody want [this script]? We can just take our scripts wherever?' I was like, 'you don't want to keep these?' I was encouraging the cast, like we should not keep these even in our hotel rooms, maybe."
As of the publishing of this article, the fate of Justice League has yet to be determined. But stay tuned to ComicBookMovie.com for more JLA news!