How One of BATMAN V SUPERMAN's Cameos Will Eventually Pay Off

Spoilers ahead.

One of the most baffling moments in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice comes when Ezra Miller's Flash blasts through a time portal (most likely a boom tube) that appears in Bruce Wayne's office wearing a tech-heavy suit and yelling about how he was right about Superman, and how he has to find Lois Lane because she's the key to everything. His dialogue is tough to understand, he doesn't really look very much like the character, and — here's the most important thing — this scene has absolutely no bearing on anything else that happens throughout the rest of the movie. Since the film is so poorly edited, it's unclear whether this actually happens or if it's just another of Wayne's visions, but either way, it seems like it'd be pretty important, right? Maybe something worth mentioning if you're Batman? Not only does Ben Affleck's Dark Knight not talk to Lois (or anyone at all, even Alfred) about this, I don't think he says a single word to Lois in the entire movie.

Collider spoke with Deborah Snyder, a producer of BVS who also happens to be Zack's wife, about the cameo, and asked if the mentality of putting that in resembled how Vince Gilligan and his team used to work on Breaking Bad, where they'd write something without knowing the specifics of how they were going to get the characters out of that situation later on down the line:

“This was kind of the opposite [of Breaking Bad] because we had the script and it wasn’t in the script. As we started then we worked on our script, I think we were in the middle of shooting and we started working on the outline for the next movie and where they go, and Zack said, ‘Oh my God let’s add this moment that is gonna pay off down the road, and we’ll find out more information.’”

So no, you didn't miss anything in Batman v Superman about how this affected any of the characters in that story, because it had absolutely zero bearing on anything. It exists as pure setup for another movie. Has there ever been a scene in any movie that so blatantly sets up a later movie while simultaneously having no impact whatsoever on the current story being told? I can't think of one. I know people are ragging on me because I didn't like the movie, but this is a great example of what I didn't like about it: how the hell did this scene make the final cut? It's truly baffling.

Meanwhile, Deborah also spoke about the scene in BVS in which we see the photograph of Wonder Woman from 1918 and how that will connect to her upcoming solo movie:

“We’ve kind of done that a little bit with all the films as we’re developing them and as the scripts come, because it is this connected universe. For instance, the Wonder Woman daguerreotype photograph where we see her for the first time, we shot that and then we actually reshot it. We just shot it and then when they were working on the script [for Wonder Woman] we were like, ‘Wow what if we put in the script the actual taking of the photograph?’ But it’s totally different people because we shot it on our set, so when [Wonder Woman director] Patty [Jenkins] was doing camera tests, we were back and forth because we were prepping that movie and editing and starting Justice League. On one of the days we just got the group together, brought over—because it’s shot on these beautiful glass plates—we brought Steven over, who is a friend of Zack’s from Arts Center, he’s a professor over there and he shoots this beautiful glass plate photography, and we shot it with all the cast. So sometimes it just kind of happens and you kind of change gears, and you realize that there might be an opportunity as you’re working on your process.”

So it sounds like we'll see Wonder Woman and her posse line up and pose for that photo next year. And maybe we'll see what makes The Flash go back in time and talk to Bruce Wayne in 2017's Justice League, or we might have to wait until the speedster gets his own solo movie in 2018. Great.