Rome was not built in a day, so why should a Justice League Film be the same??

Rush it???

[frick] been waiting for a JLA movie for over a decade, WB just so damn slow with everything!

Now's the time, you wait too long, ppl get bored, why copy Marvel and do the same, first bring the JL movie out, then spawn WW, Batman, Flash etc from it (Okay, not Superman of course :P)

Hell if the impossible WATCHMEN worked, after that, I knew anything could!

Yeah it wasn't a big box office smash, but then again it was aimed at just adults and characters anyone hardly knew or even cared for... still one of the best superhero movies ever made though!

Yeah bring it out and bring it out now!

It will make a shit load of $$$$$$ and that will green light all sorts of things, instead of WB making solo movies and maybe get a flop that will stop it all.

Hell everybody and their grandmother knows Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman - household names, no brainer!

They should do team-up film first, like Batman/ Superman & GL/Flash. This would make it different than Marvel stand-alone but still give built-up. But if the Nolan/Bale rumour is real, we already have a universe created.

FIRG,
In short, here's MINE.

Origin story (big surprise, right?)
The movie would have an anachronistic setting, where J'onn has a series of extended flashbacks while he's walking Mars' surface graveyard. Certain objects lead into these flashbacks.

Focus is almost evenly distributed between the brothers J'onn and Ma'alefa'ak, but their relationship is not like Thor and Loki.

Supporting cast includes J'onn's family (wife and daughter), a rogue White Martian pirate vessel, their cargo of Red and White Saturnian slaves (who are actually clones grown by the Whites), and original characters making up the Green Martian population.

Story follows J'onn in his bold move to mold his "damaged" and traumatized brother back into the Ma'alefa'ak he loved before he went on a vicious power trip and attempted a coupe. We see Martian society through Ma'alefa'ak's brain-damaged eyes, and J'onn tries to manage his brother's rehabilitation as well as tending to his brother's mind-rape victim: J'onn's wife.

It is not a secret thing, nor is it looked upon as a betrayal to M'yriah (his wife) - in fact, she would be disappointed if he didn't try. But as a "manhunter" (police officer), J'onn's credibility is slipping among his peers, who believe Ma'alefa'ak should be discarded to the wastelands, where his amorphous form would wander aimlessly for eternity.

We learn that Ma'alefa'ak was in correspondence with the White Martian party, and had planned to introduce slavery as a means of pushing the Greens to their maximum potential as a "superior race". The Whites, who were exiled, in turn, would be given freedom to commune with the surface and heal their decaying bodies (Martians would have a bit of symbiosis with the planet, and the centuries without exposure would cause their bodies to lose their shape-shifting abilities).

Not long into the movie, Ma'alefa'ak comes to understand that he is not wanted, though it isn't until J'onn's daughter K'hym (who is much like Carl of the Walking Dead) tells him of his crimes, that he is left devastated. Ma'alefa'ak tries to commit suicide (of sorts) by entering the forbidden wastelands where he would have wandered. There he meets a friend of his from his "past life", who offers him a chance to make something of himself instead of wallowing in self-pity.

We have a Total Recall moment, where Ma'alefa'ak is shown recordings of his past self, showing us that he was an elitist revolutionary hell-bent on taking over the Assembly of Minds and choosing the course of which the Green Martians should evolve. Ma'alefa'ak is drawn in.

The White Martians come and demand a conference with the Assembly. The Assembly is divided, but ultimately decides against it, skeptical as it wasn't long ago when Ma'alefa'ak tried to take over. The Whites, who have advanced technology compared to the Greens, respond with firebombs. Ma'alefa'ak is taken aboard the Whites' ship, as he wishes to help facilitate the transition now. The Whites have sent raiding parties down to the surface, and open war has begun to ravage sections of the planet.

J'onn has coordinated with his fellow Manhunters, secured the Assembly, and built a formidable defense. The fires will not reach them, and the Assembly's powerful minds have cast a wide net to detect any intruders. Yet as their defense holds, they have nothing to counter-attack the Whites.

Ma'alefa'ak views the spy drones' recordings in public eye aboard the White ship, and has a change of heart when he learns that the Whites have begun to attack an area where J'onn's group is holed up. He manages to sneak a drone down with a message for his brother, allowing J'onn to stow aboard when it returns to the ship. Ma'alefa'ak rendezvouses with J'onn, and the two brothers overtake the ship.

Ma'alefa'ak finds that one of the Whites contingencies was to disperse a toxin in the air that would infect the most formidable telepaths (the Assembly), causing them to combust and burn when they used their telepathy. J'onn infers that the Whites would have betrayed and killed him then, had he not had his mind wiped.

The Saturnians are freed, and given command of the ship to chart a course to whatever place they'd like to call home. They leave, supposedly on the course for Saturn, according to Ma'alefa'ak. J'onn is impressed with his brother for his accomplishments, for his ability to see past temptation and do what is right.

To their chagrin, Ma'alefa'ak is called to trial again for espionage, treason, and being an accessory to murder. At the trial, Ma'alefa'ak, now resolute that he will never be at peace with them, disperses his own modified version of the plague - designed to target anyone who uses their telepathy, and is also communicable through telepathy. The entire assembly is consumed in fire, and J'onn watches helplessly as Ma'alefa'ak disappears unharmed.

The fires and deaths spread, yet J'onn (who is already privy to the plague) manages to keep his mind to himself, searching frantically for his wife and daughter. The two are showing signs that they are about to burn up, and J'onn tries to embrace them where he'd join H'ronmeer with them. M'yriah knocks him unconscious to spare him, and bursts into flame with their daughter.

J'onn wakes up with the ashes of his people blowing all around him. After some time of weeping and reaching out with his mind (to no success), J'onn sets the movie to the opening scene of him wandering the empty graveyard.

He is losing his mind in isolation, shaping the faces/heads of those he knew and loved into his hands, carrying on conversations with himself. [They] decide to build a tribute, and just when J'onn has found a place to start... he vanishes in a bright light.

The bright light teleports him to a laboratory on Earth, where he gives the operator a fatal heart attack. The transporter malfunctions after he materializes, and catches the whole place on fire. Dying, Dr Erdel tells J'onn not to just stand there - run. He doesn't know if he can understand him - but then J'onn reads his mind. Erdel tells him he's sorry, he didn't think the receiver would transport anything organic - no one ever thought there was life on Mars. J'onn asks him why he tried to acquire anything then, to which Dr Erdel answers that he just wanted to see what was out there. He tells J'onn again to go, unless Martians are immune to fire. J'onn takes his body and flies out of there, and Dr Erdel dies while in the air.

The end here is HEAVILY influenced by the First Avenger, where Steve wakes up out of time, in a very different place than where he crashed. J'onn disguises himself as a cop, tries to talk to random people, but comes across as foreign and strange. He doesn't meet Nick Fury in Times Square, however - but he does in fact, catch a tv news report about Superman, an alien.

That's what I've got. Martian Manhunter shouldn't be a franchise, although he does have enormous potential on Earth - I'd want to see a quality story before sequels. My draft has taken inspiration from The Skin I Live In, Richard III, Superman, Captain America: The First Avenger, Mass Effect, and X2: X-Men United.

Take your time. Quality over speed.

@FIRG
Never played God of War (isn't that Playstation exclusive? Man I hate Sony for killing Shenmue...) so I'll take your word for it. I don't see it as too flashback heavy, because really, the amount of "present" scenes are so minimal, they are really the interruptions, and small ones at that.

It is actually a mystery, but ah well, can't please everyone.

@Thefirstlantern
Thanks man. Whenever I decide to complete the story's minute details, finish the dialogue, all that... I'll post it somewhere. If it gets popular, then we'll see what happens, but yeah - have to finish it first.