Back in August, director Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow) decided to walk away from Justice League Dark due to his dissatisfaction with the movie's script. However, the filmmaker may be regretting his decision as he's revealed in a new interview that he would be willing to return to the project or even another one set in the DC Films Universe (and there are plenty of them which need a director).
Liman is, of course, a busy man as he's working on a YouTube Red series called Impulse and recently revealed a desire to develop Edge of Tomorrow 2. However, he's willing to make some room for DC!
"I would be open to it. I have a very kind of contrarian approach to how I make things and I don’t want to do them the way other people have done them. You know, Impulse is an original take on superpower as you can imagine and still be satisfying. Because obviously there’s some things – you can be original and artsy and not. … Part of the reason cliches exist is because they’re satisfying to the audience so my challenge as a filmmaker has always been to do something that’s really original and still totally satisfying on a big commercial level, which I feel we’ve done with Impulse and I’d be really interested in doing that within the DC world if the right piece of material comes along."
So, Liman is clearly another director who wants to reinvent the superhero genre and he could very well do so with a movie like Justice League Dark. The question is, will Warner Bros. now let him return?
The studio has been desperately searching for a Justice League Dark director for what feels like years and if Liman tells them he'll come back, then it will probably happen! For now, though, the project remains in development hell. Do you guys want it to happen? Let us know your thoughts below.