Justice League Movies: What Stories From the Comics Could Work?

While Marvel’s The Avengers featured an entirely new story never before seen in the comic books, its sequel appears poised to adapt Jim Starlin’s Marvel Comics classic The Infinity Gauntlet. While that will leave moviegoers scrambling to pick up copies of the trade paperback to see who’s who in the story they’re about to view in 2015, there’s another 2015 superhero film that’s on everybody’s mind.What will Justice League do? The smart money says they’ll follow The Avengers‘ lead and do something that isn’t too slavish to the source material. Then again, the smart money said they would have built to the film first, rather than trying to start their cinematic universe by looking at the competition and saying, “They just made the most ambitious, riskiest film ever made. I can top it.”So if it were up to us, what stories would they consider as potential Justice League movies?New World OrderGrant Morrison and Howard Porter crafted a run on JLA that’s still the envy of nearly ever writer ever to work on the characters. Their first arc, in which Martian Manhunter led the League against a group of bloodthirsty, shape-shifting aliens from his own world, would probably work best as a sequel, since it relies on a basic understanding of the DC Universe and many of its characters…but there are a lot of people who aren’t necessarily confident that a Justice League feature film can do what The Avengers did in terms of money, and that makes it tempting to go all-in on this one.