As is our wo nt , we ’ve take some time put on our police detective ’s hats , pool our noesis of rumor and comic Scripture , and strabismus at every build of the new Justice League prevue to tell you everything it ’s got hidden in its many shadiness of Lady Jane Grey .
We ’re mull over , but still :
We open with what I think we all immediately knew was Bruce Wayne ( Ben Affleck ) alone , one a snowy mountain , with a horse .
He look down on something that I think is the fishing village where Aquaman ( Jason Momoa ) was base by Bruce in theComic - Con footage . In fact , Bruce ’s outfit looks indistinguishable , so I feel safe in making the call that this is from Bruce going through a lot of work to cross down Aquaman . Presumably from that filing cabinet of Lex ’s ( Jesse Eisenberg ) he swipe in Batman v Superman .
Yep . It ’s him . His “ voiceover ” ( he ’s talk to Diana ): “ We have to be ready . You , me , the others . There ’s an attacking get along from far by . ”
Diana ( Gal Gadot ): “ Not number , Bruce , here . ”
There ’s a lot going on in this magazine , which shows Silas Stone ( Joe Morton ) come home . In the comics — and as look in short in Batman v Superman — is the father of Cyborg ( Ray Fisher ) . Silas Stone and his cyborg son , Victor Stone .
This affair that Silas has apparently just hanging out by his couch looks like it ’s a Mother Box , which the movie ’s villain , Steppenwolf ( Ciarán Hinds ) , is spending his timehunting down .
Steppenwolf may be the main villain , but he ’s got Apokoliptian assistance in the human body of a Parademon in the back there . They look pretty like to when they showed up in Batman ’s weirdly prophetic dream in Batman v Superman .
Diana says to Bruce , “ The others . Where are they ? ”
Well , Aquaman ’s standing on a turn turtle gravy boat search fine . I almost slowed it down more , but it ’s okay as is . You ’re welcome .
Aquaman saves a fisherman , delivers him to the bar , and say the drinking on him . catch out , Aquaman , Bruce Wayne and a giant anorak are come for you !
A circumstances of the rest period of the drone is just Batman telling us who these people are . So we get Bruce articulate , “ Arthur Curry . The Aquaman . ”
Diana : “ Organic and bio - electronic body division . He ’s a bionic woman . ”
It look here like Cyborg ’s either cause the Mother Box back for his dad or observe a Modern one . Also , he looks like the bridge between the novel Power Rangers picture show and Transformers .
We see Cyborg in activity in what looks like his papa ’s research laboratory — you may see Silas , in his brown coat from originally in the prevue — duck hunting . Is it a delivery maybe ?
More of Cyborg in activity — we see a lot of this , I wonder if it ’s to establish a lesser known grinder . I also find like this — and a lot of the thing we see in this trailer — are from flashback from before the main military action of the film starts .
Another , clearer , buck of what Cyborg looks like . Cyborg says to a cop , “ You should probably move . ”
Barry come home to his computer lair which , as we ’ve already notice , isplayingRick and Mortyon one of the screen .
I ’d freak out if I saw Bruce Wayne just lounging in my chair with no warning .
We get another aspect at Barry ’s powers — he ’s tight — as he pelt along in a … timber ? Past a … compound ?
Then we get a bit that we see to it in theComic - Con footagelast year , where Bruce go to recruit Barry Allen and try his velocity by contrive a batarang at him . I ’m in reality using a gif from the Comic - Con footage because it ’s all chopped up with blackout in the trailer , and is clean here .
But the item is that this is how we ’ll see Barry ’s response clip — fundamentally bullet metre . And that , apparently , Bruce is conduct around a batarang in his civies . I intend , talk about being prepared , but it ’s still hilarious .
It should be remark that this trailer is missing the part from the footage we ’ve already fancy where Barry says yes to the League straight off because he “ take friends . ” rather , Barry read , “ You ’re the Batman ? ”
And look , I know that “ the Aquaman ” is like a local legend and “ a Cyborg ” reach sense because it ’s a literal descriptor , but by this universe ’s own timeline , Bruce has been Batman for approximately a billion yr at this point . Is n’t it clock time to just be “ Batman ” and not “ the Batman ? ” Definite and indefinite articles are the hallmark of a flick trying too heavy to be “ realistic . ” Anyway …
In some barren place in what is either from the climax — but could also be a foray on one of Steppenwolf ’s facilities — Batman fights Parademons . And I had to go through this frame by frame , like it was the Zapruder film , to ensure it was Parademons and not something new .
But it ’s Parademons . Diana says , “ They say the age of heroes would never derive again . ”
Bruce : “ It has to . ”
And more action shots from this self-aggrandising Parademon struggle . Is it just me or is this landscape so desolate that it smacks “ Not terra firma ” ? Also , Aquaman is in a suit that covers his whole body , to which I say , “ BOOOO . ” Not just for the obvious reason , but because something weird happens to his consistency dimension in it . I think it ’s just that it looks — it may not be — like there ’s been some CGI added to it .
Also , that ’s a trident with five prongs . Just order .
This is interesting because it ’s Wonder Woman in a fight in what ’s clearly a modern construction in a modern seat — a fight to keep Steppenwolf from a Mother Box , maybe ?
Cyborg kick the bucket full Iron Man . ( I know . But , by now , the nerve clamping and the shot into the sky is pretty iconically Iron Man in film language . )
I like this agency of showing the Flash ’s powers more than either the slow - mo or the running play we saw earlier . Also this looks like the same building Cyborg is flying out of .
Barry and Bruce deliver the best lines of the trailer . Barry : “ What ’s your superpower again ? ”
Bruce : “ I ’m rich . ”
Now think over what car they could be possibly be getting into in daytime in even clothes . It ’s think of to conjure up the Batmobile — and reduce to draw up with the next shot of Bruce in a vehicle — but it ’s emphatically just a very expensive machine .
This is the Nightcrawler — an articulated vehicle that Batman has that can climb up walls and matter . We firstencountered iton a set visit , where we also found out that this is all taking place in a tunnel that connects Gotham and Metropolis , which is the website of a giant solidification firearm .
It also looks kind of like they ’re breaking into the burrow — which apparently has a giant tube up to ground degree so water flea and Wonder Woman can vanish and jump around in it .
The Nightcrawler ( man is that a confusing name ) is pretty kludgy , but effective .
Football , for some reason .
This is dilute to make it look like whatever Aquaman and Wonder Woman are destruct in a cave is setting off an burst in the middle of a city . I do n’t buy it . Unless it ’s a Mother Box Wonder Woman is plug and it ’s using it ’s reality - warp powers to do this .
Lois ( Amy Adams ) is also here .
And so is Mera ( Amber Heard ) .
And here ’s Barry ’s dad ( Billy Crudup ) . look like Henry Allen has the Rebirth background of being convicted of the death of Barry ’s mom . Barry believes him to be innocuous .
A muckle of quality are here to rig up future movies , it feels like . Except Lois . She ’s here to remind us that Superman is think to be show up in this moving picture .
Now , this view is fill with Amazons . And we ca n’t order if it ’s a flashback to an earlier conflict Themiscyra had with Darkseid / Steppenwolf / Apokolips the major planet in universal or if Diana address in some favour . We ’re lean to it being a flashback . flashback in general seem like they ’re going to start the film , with Bruce and Diana blab about what ’s pass off and his recruitment effort . And to explain why everyone want the Mother Boxes .
I have to slow this down to really value it , but there are some really great action at law moments in this trailer .
Like this one , where Wonder Woman jump-start down in the tunnel and , through the power of a cut , ends up with Cyborg and Aquaman in what looks like a completely dissimilar set ( Apokolips ? ) . I guess they find out from Batman v Superman that you ca n’t go wrong with Wonder Woman standing into a Cuban sandwich pose from a crouch .
Commissioner Gordon ( J.K. Simmons ) state , “ It ’s good to see you playing well with others again . ” Either this is a reference to the Robins ( and/or the upcomingNightwingmovie ) or he ’s being sarcastic . Or it ’s a weird Batman v Superman callback .
Aquaman : “ Dressed like a bat . I moil it . ”
Batman ( to Gordon ): “ May be irregular . ”
You know what ? I would watch a whole movie of grumpy Batdad being clowned on by heroes with actual superpowers .
Jason Momoa is having the time of his life in this role .
I just assume you all would need this gif for later .
And while all this action is great and all , there is a super - sized yap in this trailer . I know we ’re supposed to go along with the idea that Superman is “ dead , ” but we all know he ’s designate up in this movie , right ?
This is an early laggard , so I get that they ’re work up suspense so they can get all the publicity possible out of “ FIRST OFFICIAL SHOT OF SUPERMAN IN JUSTICE LEAGUE ” and such , but it also mean you may kind of tell the trailer is trend around his part in the plot . Which I ’m assuming is n’t modest .
If it is small and he comes back just to setup a later visual aspect , than keeping him out makes sense , since you ’d burn a large percentage of your limited Superman footage that way of life . The other thing that makes sense is if Superman ’s return is tied to some twist . Like mayhap thehintthat he ’s in the black and silver The Death and Return of Superman suit is n’t a hint but a veridical matter . Or mayhap he comes back wrong and they have to beat him back into good . Something .
We ’ll feel out November 17 .
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