DC fans will likely recall the plan that the “Saltburn” and “Promising Young Woman” director is referring to. For years, there have been rumblings that we might see a “Justice League Dark” film or television series. Like DC’s central Justice League, the occult/supernatural-based team features multiple characters, like Zatanna and John Constantine, working together.
“I was definitely interested,” Emerald Fennell explained on “Happy Sad Confused.” “I was like, ‘I don’t know a huge [amount] about the whole superhero genre; it’s not a genre I naturally gravitate towards, so I’d love to know how does one make [a superhero film] like that,” she said, pointing out that she was largely an outsider to the world of comic books.
For fans who are unaware, Zatanna is a long-running character in DC Comics. She has innate magical and cosmic abilities that allow her to teleport, heal herself and others, and employ a whole host of other powers. She invokes these abilities by speaking backward to hone her concentration, a strategy that she learned from her father.
“I did write it, but it was complicated; you know, the regimes changed; it’s the classic studio stuff,” Fennell explained. “J.J. is incredible, his team is incredible, and I wrote in the end a script that was reasonably demented — in a good way, I think. But in the end, the whole universe got changed. And that’s fine; It was really fun to do in the end,” she concluded.
