For Batman fans producer Michael
Uslan must have, despite the dark spots, a dream job, starting on the first Tim
Burton Batman all the way to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight, and Zack Snyder’s
Batman vs. Superman. In an interview to EP Daily, Uslan talked about the anticipation
for the new project:
"I feel great. First of all,
Zack's a fanboy, and he loves these characters as much as any of us do.
Everybody grows as filmmakers, as actors, all of us in life, if we don't
continue to evolve something is radically wrong, and it's so interesting to see
the evolution for everybody involved and to see the evolution of Batman, it's
exciting and everybody is pumped up about it. Its a chance for a new direction,
and it's going to be something that people I think will be just so excited
about."
Regarding the persistent
suspicion over casting Ben Affleck as Batman, Uslan makes some good points.
"It starts with this, I've
lived this in the past before and I'm speaking now really more as a Bat-fan
than as the Bat-producer. We went through it all with Michael Keaton. I lead
the charge from the first time I heard Tim (Burton) was thinking of hiring
Michael Keaton to play Batman. I'd go, 'Oh my god, all the work, I've put in
all these years to do a dark and serious Batman, he's going to hire a
comedian!' I could envision the posters: 'Mr. Mom is Batman,' but then he
explained his vision, he had a vision, and he was right. This is all about
Bruce Wayne, it's not about Batman, it's all about Bruce Wayne. If you're
trying to do a serious, dark superhero, people have to believe in Bruce Wayne
as that obsessed driven guy, to the point maybe of almost being psychotic. A
guy who would get dressed up as a bat and do what he did. So we went through
the hoopla with Michael Keaton. The fans were the same reaction that I had
initially, except I had the benefit of hearing a vision right away. Then when
they actually went to see the movie they never wanted to anyone else to play
Batman, never."
"A number of years go by,
and then all of a sudden the torches and the pitchforks go up, 'oh my god, the
guy that played the gay cowboy is going to be The Joker? They're going to
destroy the greatest super villain in history. And then after Heath Ledger's
performance, when they actually went to see it, nobody ever wanted The Joker
played by another actor again. So here we are, with an academy award winning
filmmaker. You look at his last bunch of movies, Hollywoodland he had me
convinced he was George Reeves. The Town, Argo, just really, really great
quality of work. Again, I'll go back to what Tim said in the beginning, it's
all about Bruce Wayne, and when you focus on it, Bruce Wayne, maybe in his
mid-forties, what's he going to be feeling? What's he going to be thinking?
What does he have on his plate to deal with? I just couldn't be more excited
about it."
Batman vs. Superman opens on May
6th, 2016.
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