When the strike ended in February 2008, Miller wanted to begin filming soon, but production was delayed for three months.
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First, the movie began casting right as the 2007 Writer's Guild of America Strike began. Justice League: Mortal ran into a perfect storm of production issues. While in the comics it is Wonder Woman who kills Maxwell Lord, Justice League: Mortal makes a controversial decision to have it be by Batman's hand. It also was inspired by the storyline "Superman: Sacrifice" which sees Maxwell Lord take control of Superman to fight the Justice League. It drew from a variety of comics, particularly the storyline of someone stealing information to take down the Justice League from Batman is from the Justice League storyline "Tower of Babel." It drew heavy inspiration from many of the then-new storylines from the build-up to Infinite Crisis, particularly with the Maxwell Lord being the villain and the OMAC Project and Brother Eye satellite. The film culminates in the Justice League battling a wave of OMAC soldiers, nanotech-infected humans, in a scene very similar to the battle of New York in The Avengers which would be released years later.
Lord is the sole survivor of the psychic experiments birthed from the OMAC Project and now plans to use his abilities to take over the world and slaughter the metahumans that might stand in his way. The plot of Justice League: Mortal focused on the villainous Maxwell Lord hacking into Batman's Brother Eye Computer satellite to gain information on the weakness of various superheroes.