Justice League (film)

Justice League
Teaser poster
Directed by	Zack Snyder
Produced by	Charles Roven Deborah Snyder Jon Berg Geoff Johns
Screenplay by	Chris Terrio
Story by	Zack Snyder Chris Terrio
Based on	Justice League by Gardner Fox
Starring	Ben Affleck Henry Cavill Gal Gadot Jason Momoa Ezra Miller Ray Fisher Ciarán Hinds Amy Adams Willem Dafoe Jesse Eisenberg Jeremy Irons Diane Lane Connie Nielsen J. K. Simmons
Music by	Junkie XL Danny Elfman
Cinematography	Fabian Wagner
Edited by	David Brenner
Production companies	DC Films RatPac Entertainment Atlas Entertainment Cruel and Unusual Films
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	November 17, 2017 (United States)
Country	United States
Language	English

Justice League is an upcoming American superhero film based on the DC Comics superhero team of the same name, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is intended to be the fifth installment in the DC Extended Universe. The film is directed by Zack Snyder and written by Chris Terrio, from a story by Snyder and Terrio,^[1] and features an ensemble cast that includes Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Ciarán Hinds, Amy Adams, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen and J. K. Simmons. In Justice League, Batman and Wonder Woman assemble a team consisting of Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg to face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and his army of Parademons.

The film was announced in October 2014 with Snyder on board to direct and Terrio attached to write the script. Principal photography commenced in April 2016 and ended in October 2016. Snyder left the project in May 2017, following the death of his daughter, with Joss Whedon acting as the director of post-production, as well as screenwriter for the film's additional scenes and reshoots. Justice League is scheduled to be released on November 17, 2017, in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D.

Cast

• Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne / Batman:
  The benefactor of the group of meta-humans, a wealthy socialite and the owner of Wayne Enterprises, who also dedicates himself to protecting Gotham City from its criminal underworld as a highly trained, masked vigilante equipped with many powerful tools and weapons.
• Henry Cavill as Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman:
  A Kryptonian survivor and journalist for the Daily Planet with superhuman abilities, who seemingly died after the events of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. In February 2016, Cavill announced on social media that he had already started exercising for the film in advance of principal photography.^[5]
• Gal Gadot as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman:
  An antiquities dealer and acquaintance of Wayne who is actually an immortal Amazonian warrior princess from Themyscira and daughter of Zeus, who possesses superhuman attributes and abilities inherited from her parents.
• Jason Momoa as Arthur Curry / Aquaman:
  The king of the undersea nation of Atlantis, whose meta-human aquatic abilities and superhuman physical attributes originate from his Atlantean physiology.
• Ezra Miller as Barry Allen / Flash:
  A Central City police forensic investigator, who can move at superhuman speeds with his ability to tap into the Speed Force.
• Ray Fisher as Victor Stone / Cyborg:
  A former college athlete who, after being cybernetically reconstructed with a Mother Box after a nearly fatal accident, has powers that allow him to manipulate technology and to turn his arms to cannons. Fisher portrays the character through the assistance of motion capture performance, for the cybernetic portion of his body.^[6]
• Ciarán Hinds as Steppenwolf:
  A general of the alien race, the New Gods, from the planet Apokolips who is charged with hunting down the three Mother Boxes on Earth for his nephew and commanding officer Darkseid.^[4][7] The character had previously appeared in the extended Ultimate Edition of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, in which he communicates with Lex Luthor through Kryptonian hologram technology. In March 2017, Ciarán stated that Steppenwolf is old, tired and trying to get out of his enslaved position under Darkseid.^[8] Hinds will portray the villain through use of motion capture performance and received help in that process from his friend Liam Neeson, who had recently done similar work in A Monster Calls.^[9]
• Amy Adams as Lois Lane: An undaunted and compassionate award-winning journalist for the Daily Planet and the primary love interest for Clark/Superman.^[10]
• Willem Dafoe as Nuidis Vulko: An Atlantean advisor to Aquaman.^[11]
• Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor: The hereditary CEO of LexCorp who is incarcerated following the events of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.^[12][13][14]
• Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth: Bruce Wayne's butler, chief of security, and trusted confidant.^[15]
• Diane Lane as Martha Kent: Clark Kent's adoptive mother.^[10]
• Connie Nielsen as Queen Hippolyta: Diana Prince's mother and the Amazonian queen.^[10]
• J. K. Simmons as James Gordon: The Commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department and close ally of Batman.^[10]

Joe Morton and Robin Wright reprises their roles as Dr. Silas Stone, a scientist at S.T.A.R. Labs and Victor Stone's father, and as General Antiope, Hippolyta's sister and Diana's aunt/mentor, from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Wonder Woman, respectively.^{[16] [17]} Amber Heard, Billy Crudup, and Kiersey Clemons will portray Mera, Dr. Henry Allen, and Iris West, respectively.^[10][16] Julian Lewis Jones and Michael McElhatton have been cast in undisclosed roles.^[18][19]

Game of Thrones

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This article is about the television series. For the novel in the series A Song of Ice and Fire, see A Game of Thrones. For other uses, see A Game of Thrones (disambiguation).

Game of Thrones
Genre	Fantasy Serial drama
Created by	David Benioff D. B. Weiss
Based on	A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
Starring	see List of Game of Thrones characters
Theme music composer	Ramin Djawadi
Opening theme	"Main Title"
Composer(s)	Ramin Djawadi
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	62 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	David Benioff D. B. Weiss Carolyn Strauss Frank Doelger Bernadette Caulfield George R. R. Martin
Location(s)	Canada Croatia Iceland Malta Morocco Spain Ireland Scotland United States
Running time	50–69 minutes
Production company(s)	Television 360 Grok! Television Generator Entertainment Startling Television Bighead Littlehead
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	HBO
Picture format	1080i (16:9 HDTV)
Audio format	Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release	April 17, 2011 – present
Chronology
Related shows	After the Thrones Thronecast
External links
Website	www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones
Production website	www.makinggameofthrones.com

Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is A Game of Thrones. It is filmed in Belfast and elsewhere in the United Kingdom, Canada, Croatia, Iceland, Malta, Morocco, Spain, and the United States. The series premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and its sixth season ended on June 26, 2016. The series was renewed for a seventh season,^[1] which premiered on July 16, 2017,^[2] and will conclude with its eighth season in 2018 or 2019.^[3]

Set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos, Game of Thrones has several plot lines and a large ensemble cast but centers on three primary story arcs. The first story arc centers on the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms and follows a web of alliances and conflicts among the dynastic noble families either vying to claim the throne or fighting for independence from the throne. The second story arc focuses on the last descendant of the realm's deposed ruling dynasty, exiled and in hiding while plotting a return to the throne. The third story arc centers on the longstanding brotherhood charged with defending the realm against the ancient threats of the fierce peoples and legendary creatures that lie far north, and an impending winter that threatens the realm.

Game of Thrones has attracted record viewership on HBO and has a broad, active, international fan base. It has been acclaimed by critics, particularly for its acting, complex characters, story, scope, and production values, although its frequent use of nudity and violence (including sexual violence) has attracted criticism. The series has received 38 Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series in 2015 and 2016, more than any other primetime scripted television series. Its other awards and nominations include three Hugo Awards for Best Dramatic Presentation (2012–2014), a 2011 Peabody Award, and four nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama (2012 and 2015–2017). Of the ensemble cast, Peter Dinklage has won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2011 and 2015) and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2012) for his performance as Tyrion Lannister. Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Maisie Williams, Diana Rigg, and Max von Sydow have also received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for their performances in the series.

AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains

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AFI 100 Years... series

1998	100 Movies
1999	100 Stars
2000	100 Laughs
2001	100 Thrills
2002	100 Passions
2003	100 Heroes & Villains
2004	100 Songs
2005	100 Movie Quotes
2005	25 Scores
2006	100 Cheers
2006	25 Musicals
2007	100 Movies (Updated)
2008	AFI's 10 Top 10
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains is a list of the one-hundred greatest screen characters (fifty each in the hero and villain categories) as chosen by the American Film Institute in June 2003. It is part of the AFI 100 Years... series. The list was first presented in a CBS special hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The presentation programme was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special.^[1]

Contents

• 1 The list
  • 1.1 Heroes
  • 1.2 Villains
• 2 The characters
• 3 The actors
• 4 References
• 5 External links

The list

Heroes

Rank	Hero	Actor	Film	Year	Notes
1.	Atticus Finch	Gregory Peck	To Kill a Mockingbird	1962	Loosely based upon the father of Harper Lee
2.	Indiana Jones	Harrison Ford	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981
3.	James Bond	Sean Connery	Dr. No	1962
4.	Rick Blaine	Humphrey Bogart	Casablanca	1942
5.	Will Kane	Gary Cooper	High Noon	1952
6.	Clarice Starling	Jodie Foster	The Silence of the Lambs	1991
7.	Rocky Balboa	Sylvester Stallone	Rocky	1976
8.	Ellen Ripley	Sigourney Weaver	Aliens	1986
9.	George Bailey	James Stewart	It's a Wonderful Life	1946
10.	T. E. Lawrence	Peter O'Toole	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	Historical figure
11.	Jefferson Smith	James Stewart	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	1939
12.	Tom Joad	Henry Fonda	The Grapes of Wrath	1940
13.	Oskar Schindler	Liam Neeson	Schindler's List	1993	Historical figure
14.	Han Solo	Harrison Ford	Star Wars	1977
15.	Norma Rae Webster	Sally Field	Norma Rae	1979	Based upon southern mill worker Crystal Lee Sutton
16.	Shane	Alan Ladd	Shane	1953
17.	Harry Callahan	Clint Eastwood	Dirty Harry	1971
18.	Robin Hood	Errol Flynn	The Adventures of Robin Hood	1938
19.	Virgil Tibbs	Sidney Poitier	In the Heat of the Night	1967
20.	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Paul Newman and Robert Redford	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969	Historical figures
21.	Mahatma Gandhi	Ben Kingsley	Gandhi	1982	Historical figure
22.	Spartacus	Kirk Douglas	Spartacus	1960	Historical figure
23.	Terry Malloy	Marlon Brando	On the Waterfront	1954
24.	Thelma Dickinson and Louise Sawyer	Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon	Thelma & Louise	1991
25.	Lou Gehrig	Gary Cooper	The Pride of the Yankees	1942	Historical figure
26.	Superman	Christopher Reeve	Superman	1978
27.	Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein	Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman	All the President's Men	1976	Historical figures
28.	Juror #8	Henry Fonda	12 Angry Men	1957
29.	General George Patton	George C. Scott	Patton	1970	Historical figure
30.	Lucas (Luke) Jackson	Paul Newman	Cool Hand Luke	1967
31.	Erin Brockovich	Julia Roberts	Erin Brockovich	2000	Historical figure
32.	Philip Marlowe	Humphrey Bogart	The Big Sleep	1946
33.	Marge Gunderson	Frances McDormand	Fargo	1996
34.	Tarzan	Johnny Weissmuller	Tarzan the Ape Man	1932
35.	Alvin York	Gary Cooper	Sergeant York	1941	Historical figure
36.	Rooster Cogburn	John Wayne	True Grit	1969
37.	Obi-Wan Kenobi	Alec Guinness	Star Wars	1977
38.	The Tramp	Charlie Chaplin	City Lights	1931
39.	Lassie	Pal	Lassie Come Home	1943
40.	Frank Serpico	Al Pacino	Serpico	1973	Historical figure
41.	Arthur Chipping	Robert Donat	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	1939
42.	Father Edward	Spencer Tracy	Boys Town	1938	Historical figure
43.	Moses	Charlton Heston	The Ten Commandments	1956	Biblical figure
44.	Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle	Gene Hackman	The French Connection	1971	Based upon New York City Police Detective Eddie Egan
45.	Zorro	Tyrone Power	The Mark of Zorro	1940
46.	Batman	Michael Keaton	Batman	1989
47.	Karen Silkwood	Meryl Streep	Silkwood	1983	Historical figure
48.	The T-800	Arnold Schwarzenegger	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	1991
49.	Andrew Beckett	Tom Hanks	Philadelphia	1993
50.	General Maximus Decimus Meridius	Russell Crowe	Gladiator	2000

Villains

Rank	Villain	Actor	Film	Year	Notes
1.	Dr. Hannibal Lecter	Anthony Hopkins	The Silence of the Lambs	1991
2.	Norman Bates	Anthony Perkins	Psycho	1960	Loosely based upon killer Ed Gein
3.	Darth Vader	David Prowse (voiced by James Earl Jones)	The Empire Strikes Back	1980
4.	The Wicked Witch of the West	Margaret Hamilton	The Wizard of Oz	1939
5.	Nurse Ratched	Louise Fletcher	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975
6.	Mr. Potter	Lionel Barrymore	It's a Wonderful Life	1946
7.	Alex Forrest	Glenn Close	Fatal Attraction	1987
8.	Phyllis Dietrichson	Barbara Stanwyck	Double Indemnity	1944
9.	Regan MacNeil (as possessed by "Satan")	Linda Blair (voiced by Mercedes McCambridge)	The Exorcist	1973
10.	The Evil Queen	Voice of Lucille La Verne	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937
11.	Michael Corleone	Al Pacino	The Godfather Part II	1974
12.	Alex DeLarge	Malcolm McDowell	A Clockwork Orange	1971
13.	HAL 9000	Voice of Douglas Rain	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968
14.	The Alien	Bolaji Badejo	Alien	1979
15.	Amon Goeth	Ralph Fiennes	Schindler's List	1993	Historical figure
16.	Noah Cross	John Huston	Chinatown	1974
17.	Annie Wilkes	Kathy Bates	Misery	1990
18.	The Shark	"Bruce"[2]	Jaws	1975
19.	Captain Bligh	Charles Laughton	Mutiny on the Bounty	1935	Historical figure
20.	Man	Voiced by Paul Starrs	Bambi	1942
21.	Mrs. Eleanor Iselin	Angela Lansbury	The Manchurian Candidate	1962
22.	Terminator	Arnold Schwarzenegger	The Terminator	1984
23.	Eve Harrington	Anne Baxter	All About Eve	1950
24.	Gordon Gekko	Michael Douglas	Wall Street	1987
25.	Jack Torrance	Jack Nicholson	The Shining	1980
26.	Cody Jarrett	James Cagney	White Heat	1949
27.	Martians	Various	The War of the Worlds	1953
28.	Max Cady	Robert Mitchum	Cape Fear	1962
29.	Reverend Harry Powell	Robert Mitchum	The Night of the Hunter	1955
30.	Travis Bickle	Robert De Niro	Taxi Driver	1976
31.	Mrs. Danvers	Judith Anderson	Rebecca	1940
32.	Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker	Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway	Bonnie and Clyde	1967	Historical figures
33.	Count Dracula	Bela Lugosi	Dracula	1931
34.	Dr. Szell	Laurence Olivier	Marathon Man	1976
35.	J.J. Hunsecker	Burt Lancaster	Sweet Smell of Success	1957	Based upon columnist Walter Winchell
36.	Frank Booth	Dennis Hopper	Blue Velvet	1986
37.	Harry Lime	Orson Welles	The Third Man	1949
38.	Caesar Enrico Bandello	Edward G. Robinson	Little Caesar	1931
39.	Cruella De Vil	Voice by Betty Lou Gerson	One Hundred and One Dalmatians	1961
40.	Freddy Krueger	Robert Englund	A Nightmare on Elm Street	1984
41.	Joan Crawford	Faye Dunaway	Mommie Dearest	1981	Historical figure
42.	Tom Powers	James Cagney	The Public Enemy	1931
43.	Regina Giddens	Bette Davis	The Little Foxes	1941
44.	Baby Jane Hudson	Bette Davis	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	1962
45.	The Joker	Jack Nicholson	Batman	1989
46.	Hans Gruber	Alan Rickman	Die Hard	1988
47.	Tony Camonte	Paul Muni	Scarface	1932
48.	Verbal Kint	Kevin Spacey	The Usual Suspects	1995
49.	Auric Goldfinger	Gert Fröbe (voiced by Michael Collins)	Goldfinger	1964
50.	Detective Alonzo Harris	Denzel Washington	Training Day	2001

The characters

• The Silence of the Lambs and It's a Wonderful Life are the only films to place a character in the top ten of both lists. In addition, Batman, and Schindler's List are the only other films to have characters appear on both lists.
• Four franchises have both a hero and villain listed for separate films: the Alien is from Alien while Ellen Ripley is listed for the sequel, Aliens; Darth Vader is listed for The Empire Strikes Back while Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi are cited for A New Hope; the Terminator is listed as a villain for The Terminator and as a hero for Terminator 2: Judgment Day; and James Bond is listed for Dr. No while Auric Goldfinger of Goldfinger was the only Bond villain cited.
• The Terminator is the only character to be listed as both a villain (The Terminator) and a hero (Terminator 2: Judgment Day).  Within the films, these are different but physically identical characters, both played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• Four characters from four different Stanley Kubrick films appear: three villains (Alex DeLarge, HAL 9000, and Jack Torrance) and one hero (Spartacus).
• On each list, there appears only a single character of African descent: Virgil Tibbs as a hero for In the Heat of the Night and Alonzo Harris as a villain for Training Day.
• Only eight human heroines and fifteen villainesses are listed. The heroine Lassie is female, though she was portrayed by a male dog in all television shows and movies featuring the character.
• Twelve-year-old Regan MacNeil from The Exorcist is the youngest human character on the list.  However, the evil dæmon that possessed her throughout the film, Pazuzu, is implied to be centuries, if not millennia, old.
• Lassie, the Terminator, and Superman are the only non-human heroes.  The shark from Jaws, the Terminator, HAL 9000, the Martians, and the Alien are the only non-human villains.
• In Bambi, "Man" specifically refers to the man who killed Bambi's mother. He is also the only character on either list not to appear on screen in any way.
• Only three characters from animated films appear, all as villains: Queen Grimhilde, "Man", and Cruella de Vil.  All are in Walt Disney Animation Studios films.

The actors

• Gary Cooper is the only actor to appear three times on the list; in all three instances, he appears on the heroes list.
• Twelve actors appear twice on the same list: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Robert Mitchum, Faye Dunaway, and Jack Nicholson on the villains list; and Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda, Harrison Ford, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and James Stewart on the heroes list.
• Al Pacino and Arnold Schwarzenegger are the only actors to appear on both lists. Schwarzenegger appears on both lists portraying different Terminators, while Pacino appears as characters from unrelated films.
• Out of all the actors who appear on the list, twenty-one of them—Kathy Bates, Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Russell Crowe, Robert Donat, Michael Douglas, Sally Field, Louise Fletcher, Jodie Foster, Gene Hackman, Tom Hanks, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley, Frances McDormand, Gregory Peck, Julia Roberts, George C. Scott, Kevin Spacey, Spencer Tracy, Denzel Washington, and John Wayne—received Academy Awards for their performances. Gary Cooper won twice, once for Will Kane and once for Alvin York (he also received a third nomination, for the role of Lou Gehrig).  Of the remaining actors, Judith Anderson, Anne Baxter, Warren Beatty, Linda Blair, Humphrey Bogart, Glenn Close, Bette Davis, Geena Davis, Faye Dunaway, Ralph Fiennes, Henry Fonda, Alec Guinness, Angela Lansbury, Charles Laughton, Paul Muni, Liam Neeson, Paul Newman, Robert De Niro, Laurence Olivier, Peter O'Toole, Al Pacino, Susan Sarandon, Sylvester Stallone, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Meryl Streep, and Sigourney Weaver were also nominated, but did not win.