Justice League: The New Frontier (I)

Capsule review for Justice League: The New Frontier = fantastic. I’ll post up my proper review soon, but in the meantime here is a list of New Frontier trailers, websites, interviews, and reviews culled from around the internet.

Websites

Justice League: New FrontierIMDB

Trailers

Trailer:

Early Preview w/talking heads:

Reviews from around the Net

• IGN Review (Eric Moro and Christopher Monfette) — 9/10 — “By the standards of similar comic-book-to-film translations, Justice League boasts a fairly remarkable picture. The color, clarity and vibrancy of the image is seldom in question, splashing across the screen with tremendous appeal.”
• DVD Talk (Jamie S. Rich ) — Recommended — “Despite what reads as a long list of stunt casting, all the actors are particularly well chosen, and none of them trade on any prior image or overly recognizable verbal tics.”
• Animated Shorts (Steve Fritz) — “or some reason, while organizations such as Marvel and Starz will produce 90-minute direct-to-DVD animated features, Warner Bros. feels compelled to maintain an under 75-minute limit. As one can imagine, and had been confirmed by both series creator Darwyn Cooke and scriptwriter Stan Berkowitz, that means a lot of the original graphic novel has to be cut.”
• Animation Magazine (Ryan Ball) — “These characters are more than lantern-jawed, one-dimensional do-gooders who swoop down to save the day with a wink and a smile. They’re complex individuals with powers tempered by insecurities.”

Darwyn Cooke

Darwyn Cooke (Consultant, author original series) — CBR — “I was also involved in the storyboards for the film. I think it works out to about ten percent of the movie. And I was also involved in a lot of the color and consulting art direction; creative consulting, I suppose. Again, I worked really closely with the director. He and I basically kept in contact on a daily basis throughout that part of the production, to go over the story and adding a lot of thing back into the film that the script couldn’t accommodate.”

Darwyn Cooke’s Isotope Party — Newsarama — “The party was tailored specifically to Cooke’s style, with people in suits and dresses form the 50’s and New Frontier themed cocktails. Asked if this is how he imagined how his party would go Cooke replied; ‘Goddamn right, why not? The New Frontier is all about the 50’s, so yeah, let’s back it up and have a good time.’”

Darwyn Cooke Panel at Wondercon — Newsarama — “Cooke said of all of New Frontier, the John Henry story was the most difficult to write, but at the same time, it’s the part he’s proudest of. The difficultly, Cooke explained, was due to something very basic: ‘I’m white – it’s really difficult for me to even begin to think that I understand the situation or what I’m writing about.’”

Cast/Crew Interviews

Stan Berkowitz (writer) and David Bullock (director) — Wizard — “As an adaptor, you get nervous about changing things that the public has already chimed in on, and that they’ve liked. Plus, you don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings by cutting out something they loved, or changing something, or adding something that feels alien to them.”

David Boreanaz (Hal Jordan) – Comics2Film — “The voice director, Andrea (Romano), was unbelievably fantastic in the way she guided me through Hal’s course of emotions, and really helped me get to know the character”

Kyle MacLachlan (Superman) – Comics2Film — “There’s a sort of moral imperative that Superman has, and I think the language he uses is a little more proper — he’s just not a guy who uses his words casually. [...] So maybe, unconsciously, that 1950s tone just creeps in there for me.”

Brooke Shields (Carol Ferris) – Comics2Film — “There’s a strength in Carol – she’s not willing to lose her sexuality by being in a man’s world, and she’s determined to be respected for having the same intelligence and ability to stay on course, and be par for the course, with the men that she’s surrounded by.”