Justice League Dark Adds New Writer As Director Search Continues

Warner Bros. has selected Gerard Johnstone to do the late polish on the script forJustice League Dark . With so many project in development , it would be easy for one to get lose in the shuffle , butJustice League Darkrefuses to be that film . Despite several changes in the director ’s chair , WB is still determined to make a film based on some of their lesser known and witching characters . The latest shake-up for the team up comes in the backwash ofDoug Liman departingand the newer offering have not been as telling as the studio hop .

With Liman out of the movie , WB direct a bit of downcast profile directors to tackleJustice League Dark , including thedirector of the impendingITremake . The search was apparently underwhelming and resulted inWB ordering a revision of the script(based on one byDoctor Strange ’s Jon Spaihts ) , one that will now be done by Gerard Johnstone .

Deadlineis account that Johnstone will polish the script for Warner Bros. following a director hunt that left them wanting more . Johnstone was put in this side follow a presentation that reportedly left an impression on the studio . He wrote and directed his directorial feature debut in 2014,Housebound , which is what led to him get such a meeting .

How Rachel Zegler’s

Even though Johnstone has only been hired on to smoothen the handwriting at this point , it sound as though he will do so based on the presentation he made . With him being a rather unknown director , WB could face to yield him a braggart feature of speech like this if the script turns out as good as they hope . Plus , with him already meet with the studio for the Book of Job to set out with , getting a trial period of reworking the script to his vision and evince he has a grip on the project could in the end lead to Johnstone finding himself in the theater director ’s death chair when everything is say and done .

That say , Johnstone could simply polish the script only for WB to find someone else to point . If that is the caseful , the name they have looked at most recently are not ones that will suck a bunch establish on their inclusion body alone . Should Johnstone continue interested in directing the feature once the playscript is complete , he could once again be part of the director hunt . In either representative , it appears the studio apartment is set to find an up and coming director , rather than a known one . Which approach shot they ultimately decide to take is unclear , but Johnstone ’s burnish of the script is the next step in that process .