In a recent interview with Forbes, director Zack Snyder discussed when his interest for Batman began, when
did he first thought about introducing the character in the sequel and his
reaction in seeing Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman together for a test of the
suits.
"I
gotta be honest, it definitely was a thing that… after Man of Steel finished
and we started talking about what would be in the next movie, I started subtly
mentioning that it would be cool if he faced Batman. In the first meeting, it
was like, “Maybe Batman?” Maybe at the end of the second movie, some Kryptonite
gets delivered to Bruce Wayne’s house or something. Like in a cryptic way,
that’s the first time we see him. But then, once you say it out loud, right?
You’re in a story meeting talking about, like, who should [Superman] fight if
he fought this giant alien threat Zod who was basically his equal physically,
from his planet, fighting on our turf… You know, who to fight next? The problem
is, once you say it out loud, then it’s kind of hard to go back, right? Once
you say, “What about Batman?” then you realize, “Okay, that’s a cool idea. What
else?” I mean, what do you say after that? …But I’m not gonna say at all that
when I took the job to do Man of Steel that I did it in a subversive way to get
to Batman. I really believe that only after contemplating who could face
[Superman] did Batman come into the picture.
We just went through Superman’s 75th, and it was very exciting… and to me, it was just really awesome. And the idea of having the Batman 75th and the Wonder Woman 75th together is kind of an amazing thing, too… The thing also that’s really fascinating for me is that, even just in the tests we’ve been doing, the costumes, right? You basically have Batman and Superman — and this is without Ben [Affleck] and Henry [Cavill] in the costumes, but just like the stand-ins, just testing to see what the costumes look like. And you have them standing there and they’re standing in the same shot — and then we have Wonder Woman, you know, all three of them in the same shot. Even just for a test, you really have to go, “Wow, that’s crazy!” Not only is it the first time that I’m seeing them, it’s the first time they’ve ever existed together on screen in a movie. And that’s kind of a huge deal. Even just Batman and Superman standing next to each other… [I]t’s kind of epic. You do sort of sense the weight of the pop culture iconography jumping out of its skin when you’re standing there looking at the two of them and Wonder Woman. It’s crazy. But it’s fun. I mean, I have the first photo, I’ve got it in my archive because I was like, “Okay, I better keep this, it’s gonna be worth something,” [laughs]!
Unfortunately, I don’t even know the timeline… Because the movie takes place so far from now, it’s hard to know exactly. That all gets tied to marketing and strategies for the movie. It’s not just a free-for-all, which I’d love it to be. Because I take a picture of the suit with my camera– I’m actually staring at one right now in my office. And it’s just massive on my wall in my office and it’s epic, let me tell you! And I’m like, “God, I want to send this to the Internet immediately.” But I know I’m not allowed to [laughs]! I do value the sort of excitement of the way the film is [revealed]… the pieces that are released and sort of trickle out to everybody, and those reveals are exciting milestones for us."
Opening on May 6th, 2016, Batman vs. Superman will star Henry Cavill as
Superman, Ben Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Jesse Eisenberg as
Lex Luthor, Jeremy Irons as Alfred, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Laurence Fishburne
as Perry White, Diane Lane as Martha Kent and Holly Hunter, Callan Mulvey and
Tao Okamoto.
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