Darwyn Cooke, creator of the much-loved comics mini-series 'Justice League: The New Frontier' spoke with the website for WonderCon, where the film will make its world premiere. He said going from animator to comics creator and back was "pretty weird" and the process of condensing his sweeping tale of the early days of the Justice League into a short movie was not easy:
"It's like a lot of things: it feels a lot worse than it is at first. We were all pretty daunted by trying to compress this material down to a 70-minute video," Cooke said, "but Stan Berkowitz did a great job of objectively going through the story and finding out what needed to stay and what could go. The screenplay he pulled together did a very good job of that, so it was just a matter of us playing with it a bit more. It was really kind of difficult and hard to let go, but in the end we were all pretty amazed at how much of the story actually made it into the video and how much does feel like the book."
The book is set in the 1940s and 50s, and Cooke said they tried to preserve that for the film. In part that is accomplished through the set, wardrobe and prop designs, but their commitment to capturing that era went even further.
"What we tried to do with it is not to use any techniques that will make it clear that this was made after 1955. We want it to feel like it was made with the resources and technology available at the time. Granted we are using digital to support what we're doing everywhere we can, but we want it to look traditional," Cooke told WonderCon. "So in everything from the color palette on down, I think we've done pretty good in scoring it. I did design most of the characters so I was able to control the wardrobe and things like that. I think we got it. I mean, until you see the footage you just don't know."
Check out the complete interview for cool new images from the film.
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