Jay Baruchel was once set to play Maxwell Lord in the unmade superhero movie Justice League: Mortal. Now, Baruchel described what creative directions this George Miller project was headed in.
Baruchel called Justice League: Mortal a "crazy fucking fever dream" to Variety, while also saying that "my time in Australia with [George Miller] is everything I adore about [acting]. He treated it like a play. We workshopped it. We had a full-on dramaturg on set and did super, super earnest Meisner technique shit and ripped apart and unpacked the script just for the sake of itself. It was art for art's sake."
Baruchel went on to note that his turn as Maxwell Lord involved "psychokinesis and blood coming out of my tear ducts and a whole bunch of crazy, cool shit that would have been a blast to do. We were painting with pretty vivid operatic colors." Baruchel also clarified that he has not seen Pedro Pascal's turn as Maxwell Lord in Wonder Woman 1984.
Goerge Miller's Justice League: Mortal was once set to start filming at the end of 2007 and managed to get together an entire cast, including D.J. Cotrona as Superman and Armie Hammer as Batman. Principal photography was repeatedly delayed due to factors ranging from the 2007-2008 Writer's Guild of America strike to difficulties in securing tax rebates for filming in Australia. Eventually, the project was canceled.
Source: Variety
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