Batman v. Superman is fueling the hype train and has fans eager to see a live-action adaption of The Justice League. However, The JLA has been caught on film before, and it is hysterical. Back when Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210 reigned supreme on TV, someone over at Warner’s thought it would be a great idea to mix up The Justice League with 90s sitcom sensibilities. The show never got fully produced, but a pilot is floating out there on the digital ether.
Roommate Problems and Superheroes
The Justice League pilot could only fill the roster with the B-team due to licensing restraints, and as a result, is lacking the presence of the DC trinity; Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Instead, the show focuses on Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, Atom, The Flash, Ice, and Fire. The show finds the group of 20 somethings dealing with life’s ups and downs, such as losing an 
apartment or finding love, while also using their superpowers to rescue cats and, um, making umbrellas for pretty girls. It’s pretty great. The pilot kicks off with Tori Olafsdotter, the soon to be Ice, hard at work and comically avoiding the outdoors. After a lab malfunction, she’s suddenly, and with no explanation, granted the superpower of freezing water instantly. She then goes on to rescue a stoner skater dude, think Poochie with a helmet, from drowning by freezing the water around him. He just says, “wow” and nods happily. It’s never explained how he gets out of a solid brick of ice or how he managed to avoid hypothermia, but it’s great that Tori Olafsdotter got to save the day. While Tori is going through a life-changing experience, the rest of the team have got their own problems to tackle. The Flash can’t land a job because according to him he has no useful skills and gets kicked out of his apartment. Hilarity ensues from his misfortune as he is forced to move in with the Green Lantern, and in the style of the Odd Couple, hilarity ensues. The Flash, after only living there for a couple of hours, manages to re-arrange the Green Lantern’s apartment. Green Lantern is first slightly annoyed but eventually warms up to the down on his luck speedster. It is very obvious that the show’s producers were going for a Joey and Chandler dynamic, just with members of the Justice League.
Bashing Baddies
The villain in the pilot is known as the Weatherman, and he’s a doozy. The Weatherman manages to build a device to localize weather patterns and uses his amazing ability to terrorize the city of New Metro. He manages to also hijack all of the TV monitors in New Metro city in order to make his ransom demand of 20 
million dollars. Now, 20 million is a lot of money, but come on, this guy has invented a machine that controls and localizes weather. If he tried to sell that technology, a technology that could put an end to droughts, he could easily become mega rich and completely change the course of human history. But nope, instead he is going to use hail as a weapon and make funny weather related puns while the world’s shittest looking superheroes chase him down. Everything resolves itself and Tori is taken to the underwater spaceship of the Martian Manhunter and added into the Justice League. After watching The Justice League, it is quite apparent that comic book fans are in a golden age of superhero cinema. Even though message boards are filled with debates over Ben Affleck’s Batman or how crappy the last Green Lantern movie was, they are all still leagues above this TV pilot. For the first time in comic history, these characters are being taken very seriously by Hollywood, and as a result, interesting movies are being made with beloved characters. Just watch the pilot if you don’t believe me.
– Ian Benke
Check out the pilot here .
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