Zack Snyder Says BATMAN V SUPERMAN Is MAN OF STEEL 2
Seems to me like the people involved with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice don’t really know exactly what the movie is. We’ve heard that it’s not a sequel to Man of Steel, we’ve heard that it’s more of a Batman movie, and now all of a sudden it’s a sequel again.
During an interview with Canoe, Zack Snyder offers up some new details on Batman v Superman and how it actually is a sequel to Man of Steel:
“I think in a way Batman v Superman is Man of Steel 2. Justice League is kind of the transcendent, knights-of-the-round-table of the story. It’d be interesting to think about what a standalone Superman movie might be.”
We’ve heard about some things that might be going on with that standalone sequel that you can read about here. He goes on to talk about trying to figure out the future of the DCEU, like the two Justice League movies that Snyder is set to direct:
“We really have to figure out the why of them, and I think that we have. That’s the one thing that’s cool to me about Batman v Superman, it’s all about the mythology of these two massive icons. And I think that’s compelling.”
As to whether he would have ever thought he’d be directing these kinds of films during his time as a young director working on Dawn of the Dead, he says:
“At that point I was really into (Frank Miller’s comic) The Dark Knight Returns. I don’t know that I thought about it in those terms, but if you told me that I might make a ‘Justice League’ movie, I wouldn’t think that that was weird. But I don’t think I would realize what it meant to pop culture the way it has struck pop culture right now.”
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice stars Henry Cavill in the role of Superman, Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, with Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne, and Diane Lane. Jesse Eisenberg plays Lex Luthor, Holly Hunter also has a role in the film, as does Jason Momoa, who will make an appearance as Aquaman. The film is set to open worldwide on March 25th, 2016.
Dawn of Justice screenwriter Chris Terrio is in the process of writing Justice League Part One for a November 10th, 2017 release, and Justice League Part Two is being planned for release on June 14th, 2019.