Former BATMAN Actor Says AVENGERS Is Better ThanPlanned JUSTICE LEAGUE Movie

July 5, 2013 By Steve L 23 comments

Poor, poor ArmieHammer. The blond, do-gooder of Hollywood thought he could simply comment onthe topic of “Avengers vs Justice League" without anyrepercussions, but he’s nowcast his ballot in the great Fanboy Wars of 2013.

Originally meantto play Bruce Wayne in WB’s defunct Justice League: Mortal (2005), a film which only evermade it to dress rehearsals, Hammer’s been inundated with questions about thefailed project over the past few weeks as he hits the press rounds for The Lone Ranger. The topic’sbeen especially popular since Christian Bale’s officially abandoned the Batmanrole in a statement made earlier this week.

When talkingabout the prospect of playing Batman again after the debacle in JL:Mortal, Armie threw in the towel, and concededthat it’d be too difficult with the bar set so high by Marvel movies

“I don’t know man, that was before Marvel had crushed it with everything.It doesn’t seem like it would have been executed as well as Marvel’s donetheirs. What they did is they created a following for each of the individual characters and then put them together in a movie, so you had all the people whowere Thor fans, all the people who were Hulk fans, all the people who were IronMan fans, all came together to watch this one mega movie. That was a greatidea.”

Wow, Armie. Idon’t think you’re going to win any friends at WB with that attitude, although,I hear the Ant-Man role is currently vacant. Perhaps he’s eyeing that spot?He’s already worked with Disney in The Lone Ranger, which is destined to raisehis box office pull (despite a disappointing initial haul).