Before J.J. Abrams and his company Bad Robot were hired to develop an upcoming series for HBO Max, several filmmakers took a stab at bringing Justice League Dark to life on the big screen, including Guillermo del Toro and subsequently Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow).
Del Toro has talked about the unmade project several times over the years – one of many exciting del Toro projects, alas, that never came to fruition – and he has most recently offered up some fresh insights in a chat with Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast.
Which characters would del Toro have focused on? The filmmaker explains, “I took a little bit of the opening of the Alan Moore Constantine. And I took the dynamics between Abby [Arcane] and Swamp Thing. And I took the sort of revelatory moments when Deadman gets into a body; how he would experience the consciousness of that being. And one of my all-time favorites is the demon Etrigan. I love that character. So you try to put them together.”
“Zatanna is really, for me, another character that is really effortlessly powerful and interesting. So trying to mix that with Klarion the Witch Boy…I was a DC guy,” del Toro adds.
You can listen to the full interview below, and you can also head into Bloody Disgusting’s own Justice League Dark archives to get a taste of the many different iterations over the years.
One of those lost projects I’ll always wonder about. Here’s @RealGDT on JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK.
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— Josh Horowitz (@joshuahorowitz) December 23, 2021
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