Man of Steel Opens Doors For Other DC Characters plus pictures

Once again Superman comes to save the day. With the fiasco of Green Lantern and the Wonder Woman and Flash projects stuck in development for ages and the Justice League script being re-written (see more), and with the glory of the Batman trilogy past behind us, everything falls on the Big S’s shoulders. In a recent interview Jeff Robinov, the president of Warner Bros. said dad Zack Znyder’s Man of Steel is setting the tone for what the movies are going to be like going forward. In that, it’s definitely a first step.”.

In an interview to EW, Robinov told that the world of The Dark Knight won’t influence either the Man of Steel or the new DC Movie Universe. (So if they decide to do the Justice League, they are going to a new Batman????)

““I think you’ll see that, going forward, anything can live in this world,” he said. “[Nolan’s] Batman was deliberately and smartly positioned as a stand-alone. The world they lived in was very isolated without any knowledge of any other superheroes. What Zack and Chris have done with this film is allow you to really introduce other characters into the same world.””

Man of Steel screenwriter David Goyer explains:

““One of the things we dealt with on the Batman films is, Chris dislikes it when you plan something, when you say, ‘I’m going to follow this up in the next film,” Goyer tells EW. “He’s always said put everything you have into this film and then worry about the next film later. That gives the film it’s own integrity as opposed to being part of an overall plan. So of course the comic book fans, it’s hard not to think about [crossovers] but I, having done three Batman films and worked in that way, it’s definitely the approach we took with Man of Steel.””

So if they decide to do the Justice League, they are going to do a new Batman?

““They do. Or they did,” [Emphasis EW] with a change of tense that should rouse the attention of fanboys everywhere. “Where we go in the future is a whole other conversation.””

So what about the rumor that Nolan is going to produce the Justice League and that Christian Bale is returning as Batman?

““No, no it’s not.” (Nolan’s reps, who have previously declined to comment on that rumor, also confirmed Robinov’s statement and told EW that he definitely wasn’t involved with Justice League. Nolan is currently busy prepping his sci-fi film Interstellar.)”

But IS THE JUSTICE LEAGUE MOVIE GOING TO BE DONE OR NOT?

““We’ll announce something in the next several weeks that will hopefully position the DC characters and the movies we’re going to be making,” Robinov said.”

Well let’s hope that decide with individual movies for each hero instead of going for the full assembly. But even if they do that there are at least two huge problems. The first is that the Batman Universe is extremely well defined. Bruce Wayne aka Batman leaves the scene and Robyn steps in (implicit by the end of the third movie). The second is Green Lantern (see more).