If you recall Doug Liman was initially signed up to direct Fox's live-action
Gambit movie starring Channing Tatum. However, he departing that project with the following explanation:
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I look for a personal connection to the movies I make and it may not be immediately obvious. You know, like what’s my connection to Jason Bourne? I have a deeply personal connection to that movie because it’s all about Iran-Contra and my father ran the investigations into Iran-Contra. In every story I have a personal connection. The Wall, you’d be like what could this filmmaker from New York possibly have in common with these two soldiers pinned down in Irag? But The Wall is really about perseverance. It’s about picking yourself up and you just keep going and that’s something I have firsthand experience with. Not in war but in other aspects of life. With Gambit, I just never found that personal way in. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t."
After departing
Gambit, Liman quickly signed up for the
Justice League Dark movie (after Guillermo del Toro left the director's chair) but it was recently announced that he would also no longer captain that project.
In an interview with IGN, Liman cites a different reason for leaving WB's film.
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I was really excited by the characters and that world, but I’m doing Chaos Walking for Lionsgate next and then Tom [Cruise] and I are hoping to do the sequel to Edge of Tomorrow so it just became a scheduling nightmare."
Could Liman's comments be an indication that WB wants to get the ball rolling on
Justice League Dark sooner, rather than later? With
Wonder Woman receiving favorable review scores and audience turnout, perhaps WB will focus more on its supernatural comic book properties?