Casting has started for "Justice League," Bryan Singer has a foe in mind for "Man of Steel," and George Lucas is looking for a few good writers.  Not a bad day.

George Miller's "Justice League" is in high gear for auditions this week. 35-40 young hopefuls are reading lines as we speak, four to five for each of the seven lead roles.  The names on the short list include Adam Brody (The O.C.), Joseph Cross ("Running With Scissors"), D.J. Cotrona ("Windfall"), Mary Elizabeth Winstead ("Grindhouse"), Michael Angarano ("Sky High"), Teresa Palmer (Wolf Creek), Max Thieriot ("Jumper"), Common ("American Gangster"), Minka Kelly, Adrianne Palicki and Scott Porter (all from Friday Night Lights).  The Hollywood Reporter said that Miller is casting young because he's looking towards helping them "to grow into their roles over the course of several movies" which is saying to everyone in big sparkly letters: FRANCHISE.

In Superland, director Bryan Singer is getting ideas together for the next Superman flick, and it's starting with wooing a somewhat familiar villain. Aint It Cool News reports that Singer is putting pressure on classic Super villain Terence Stamp to step back into his "Kneel before me" boots as General Zod.  The duo are hard at work on "Valkyrie" and a little anonymous birdy swears s/he has personally witnessed Singer asking.  We'll let you decide.

Finally, on the Star Wars side of life, the proposed television series is moving a little closer to reality.  Entertainment Weekly reports that next week, Lucas is bringing in a group of well-traveled freelancers t Skywalker Ranch in order to plot out the 13 episodes of the series.  Original plans had slated a 26 episode season, but the situation has changed.  Rumors are flying around that the series will be set between "Revenge of the Sith" and "A New Hope," although no one but Lucas and his merry band know for sure.  A post-RotJ series would be a nice consolation prize for the lack of a third trilogy, but again, maybe the universe should be locked down before it gets even worse.