Lone Ranger Star Armie Hammer Compares Failed Justice League Movie to Star Trek

In an interview with The Feed, embedded below, The Lone Ranger's Armie Hammer told SBS 2 Australia that if it weren't for a change to the Australian tax code, George Miller's Justice League: Mortal would have happened and could have been great. "You guys had an election and changed your Prime Minister, who changed your tax rebate incentive program, and then we had a writer's strike in the US so we couldn't change anything in the script and everybody wanted to change things," Hammer said. "So it was a perfect storm." Hammer had been cast to play Batman and while he's often expressed enthusiasm for how the film could have come out, how he looked in the suit and the privilege of playing such an iconic character, he seemed to express some reservation about going back to superheroics in a post-Avengers world. Hammer said, though, that while it's hard to imagine what a Justice League film would have looked like without the massive influence of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the filmmakers had tried very hard to strike a balance between the realism of the Christopher Nolan films and the fantastical elements of other big summer blockbusters. "It would have been the perfect combination of the realistic grittiness of the Dark Knight series mixed with the amazing detail and tactile nature of the Star Trek series," Hammer said. You can check out the full story below.