2016 Movie News Archives

March 11, 2016: Chris Terrio Says "Justice League" Not as Dark as "Batman v Superman"

Justice League "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" writer Chris Terrio has told the Wall Street Journal that he wasn't initially thinking of coming back to write the "Justice League" movie, but changed his mind and has written a script that is lighter in tone than "Batman v Superman". Here's part of the WSJ interview...

    I initially thought I wasn't the guy to do "Justice League" and went off to work on something else. But the first day I went to the set, I saw Jesse [Eisenberg] in a scene with Holly Hunter and I really did feel like I was watching some strange, great performance in an independent film.

    At that moment, I thought, "I'm not done with this yet. I want to go back and keep telling the story." "Batman v Superman" is a bit of an "Empire Strikes Back" or "Two Towers" or any similar middle film in a trilogy. The middle film tends to be the darkest one. I do think from "Man of Steel" through "Justice League," it is one saga really.

    I expect "Justice League" will be tonally not quite as dark as "Batman v Superman." From that point of view, I felt compelled to go back and try to lift us and myself into a different tonal place because I think when you write a darker film, sometimes you want to redeem it all a bit.

Read the complete interview at the Wall Street Journal website.



2016 Movie News

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