Plot details for Will Beall's JUSTICE LEAGUE script from 2011, which was supposed to launch the DC Cinematic Universe, but was scrapped after being turned down by several directors, including Ben Affleck.
>At LexCorp Tower in Metropolis, Batman and Superman prevent Lex Luthor and his enforcer Killer Croc from buying Kryptonite from KGBeast. During the battle, the Kryptonite is stolen by Desaad, an emissary of Darkseid, who kills Killer Croc. His body is later seized by the Department of Metahuman Affairs led by Amanda Waller and King Faraday, who have been capturing metahumans including Cheetah, Copperhead, Tattooed Man and Solomon Grundy.
>Batman and Superman lead a rotating team of superheroes known as "the Justice League" and deploy Green Lantern John Stewart to find the Kryptonite. They also discuss Wonder Woman, who returned to the island of Themyscira after the end of her troubled relationship with Batman, and the Flash, whom they decide to recruit to the team.
>Green Lantern and Hawkman locate Desaad in an intergalactic nightclub, where alien warlord Kanjar Ro is helping him weaponize the Kryptonite, but Desaad escapes and delivers the weaponized Kryptonite to Darkseid's enforcer Steppenwolf, who uses it to capture Superman.
>Superman is taken to Apokolips and brainwashed into serving Darkseid. Meanwhile, Darkseid's forces massacre the Green Lantern Corps, killing Guy Gardner, Katma Tui, Kilowog, Tomar-Re and Salaak.
>Batman recruits Wonder Woman, Flash and Green Lantern to help him defend Earth from Darkseid's invasion. During the battle, Wonder Woman manages to free Superman of Darkseid's control, but Superman is then accidentally transported 15 years into the future by a Boom Tube.