Justice Leauge: Crisis on Infinite Earths is set to be the three-part culmination of the Tomorrow-verse, a line of DCAU films that started a new timeline in the wake of Justice League Dark: Apokolips Wars, starting with Superman: Man of Tomorrow
Jim Krieg and Butch Lukic, along with Jeff Wamester, who are on the creative team for Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths, spoke about the plans for the sequel and the third film, revealing what fans can expect going forward with the Tomorrow-verse’s grand finale.
Jim Krieg says fans can expect an “escalation” in the Crisis sequels
Jim Krieg and Butch Lukic were quick to point out what fans can expect from the Crisis on Infinite Earths sequel, but were careful not to give out spoilers. The creators had noted earlier that they would have benefitted from a five-film adaptation, but were stuck with the three. Kreig, speaking to Sci-Fi Now, revealed:
“Essentially we didn’t want to have the anti-matter just attacking the Earth for three movies because it became super monotonous. So it had to be sort of a prelude and the anti-matter wave and then the arrival, and then escalation. For those who haven’t read it, I don’t want to spoil it. But it escalates a in a very natural way.”
The film’s adaptation had the mammoth task of translating to screen a slew of characters from the comics to the animated medium, with the constraint of condensing a 12-issue miniseries into three above-average length feature films, that still left a lot of characters and plot points on the cutting room floor.
The next two films in the Crisis trilogy are not structured the same way as the first one
The first film in the trilogy has a non-linear structure, which sees the narrative hop all over the time stream at different points in the lives of popular characters like Batman and the Flash. Jim Krieg revealed that this might not necessarily be true for the trilogy’s next two films. He said:
“This first movie is very challenging as it hopscotches through time. Spoiler alert for the other two – the other two aren’t structured like this. [Part one] follows several different stories and different points in Barry Allen’s life. It’s not the easiest movie in the world. It’s treating you like a grown up, but you can follow this.”
The film takes a lot of time to set up a slew of plot points, and the second and the third films are sweet to capitalize on to pay off.
This would allow the trilogy to function as a set, and tell a complete story across its three parts, without worrying about its structure, as the three films work as one full story, rather than a story with two sequels.
