Yesterday’s reports that Steppenwolf will play the main villain in Justice League Part One, currently filming with director Zack Snyder, got a shot in the arm today as Heroic Hollywood has followed up with details that seemingly lend credence…and a good deal more detail.
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Apparently an early portion of the film will detail a battle which took place centuries ago, when Darkseid was turned back by Amazons, Atlanteans and mankind. This battle will be the setup for the two Justice League films, as Steppenwolf (and presumably, later Darkseid) is on Earth in search of three Mother Boxes Darkseid left behind.
Those three Mother Boxes, according to the report, are the three you see a character rumored to be Steppenwolf manipulating in the “Homecoming” deleted scene from Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, which was released shortly after that film came to theaters.
Of course, we don’t know much about the whereabouts of the Mother Boxes, other than that we saw one of them used to save the life of a dying teenager who will later turn out to be Cyborg in the S.T.A.R. Labs security footage Batman and Wonder Woman viewed in Batman V Superman. A good bet would be thateach of the three Earth-born races that fought Darkseid got one of the Mother Boxes, and that both the Amazons and the Atlanteans have access to one of the others.
It’s also worth noting that in Batman V Superman, Wonder Woman told the title characters, “I’ve killed things from other worlds before.” This could suggest that, if this rumor turned out to be true, Wonder Woman was part of the original battle, which rumors peg as being 30,000 years ago.
Justice League Part One is expected in theaters on November 17, 2017. It will star Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Bruce Wayne as Batman, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, Ray Fisher as Cyborg, Ezra Miller as The Flash, Henry Cavill as Superman, J.K. Simmons as Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon, and Willem Dafoe in an as-yet-undisclosed role.
