{"id":40520,"date":"2017-05-24T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T13:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=40520"},"modified":"2017-05-24T09:39:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T13:39:57","slug":"doug-liman-departs-justice-league-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/24\/doug-liman-departs-justice-league-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Liman Departs JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/doug-liman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/doug-liman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Director Doug Limon has dropped out of Warner Brothers&#8217; long in development <strong>Dark Universe<\/strong>, an adaption of the DC Comics <em>Justice League Dark<\/em> comic book series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/film\/news\/doug-liman-leaves-dark-universe-chaos-walking-1202442185\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Variety<\/a> broke the story.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Insiders say the reason is schedule-related, as Liman is also attached to direct Lionsgate\u2019s \u201cChaos Walking,\u201d which recently received a greenlight. Sources say the studio has already started meeting with other directors and should have a replacement for Liman lined up shortly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The film is just one of a number of comic book-based projects that the studio has been developing for its DC Comics Expanded Universe slate of films. This one would feature a team-up of a number of the publisher&#8217;s supernatural-based heroes including John Constantine, Swamp Thing, Deadman, Zatanna and Etrigan the Demon.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Michael Gilio is working on the screenplay for the film, though it is possible that it may undergo revisions once a new director is found.<\/p>\n<p>Also, look for a name change for the project at some point, as earlier this week Universal appropriated the <strong>Dark Universe<\/strong> name for their classic monsters cinematic universe which launches next month with <strong>The Mummy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Justice-League-Dark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40522\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Justice-League-Dark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Justice-League-Dark.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Justice-League-Dark-339x191.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Director Doug Limon has dropped out of Warner Brothers&#8217; long in development Dark Universe, an adaption of the DC Comics Justice League Dark comic book series. Variety broke the story. Insiders say the reason is <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/24\/doug-liman-departs-justice-league-dark\/\" title=\"Doug Liman Departs JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[6844],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-justice-league-dark"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40520"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=40520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}