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March 3, 2014: Zack Snyder Reacts to Superman/Batman Leaks

The Huffington Post caught up with director Zack Snyder and his wife Deborah, and asked them all about making "Man of Steel", his thoughts on leaked information on the upcoming Superman/Batman movie, and more. Here's part of the interview...

I was in Hall H at Comic Con this past July when you announced "Batman vs. Superman." The news of that movie had leaked a few hours prior to your announcement. Are leaks disappointing to you?

Zack Snyder: Yes and no. [The leak] was definitely not a planned thing.

Deborah Snyder: Things get leaked so often these days, it's a shame because even casing announcements, or whatever, you're in the middle of a process and sometimes they're so off base - and then it gets picked up by multiple places and it's all over the place.

Like Adam Driver being Nightwing, which wasn't true.

Deborah Snyder: Or some of it, you're just having conversations, but that doesn't mean they are a contender, but you're just exploring and it gets made public. It's kind of a shame that you can't go through the process in a pure way and then be able to announce it in a way that's exciting. With the [Comic-Con] announcement, there was rumblings and we were like, "Aw." Because we wanted to bring it to the fans. We wanted to bring them something special. We went to Comic-Con for "Watchmen" and we were bringing the cast to announce it and it got leaked a couple of days before. We wanted to give that to them and we got cheated out of it.

Zack Snyder: I think it does another thing. The leak becomes the audience involvement. They are now part of it, the process. Do you know what I mean? And you have to take that as the world we live in, as opposed to "Oh, that's too bad."

I am under the impression that the three big casting announcements that weren't wrong - Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot and Jesse Eisenberg - were done on your timetable. Is that accurate?

Zack Snyder: That is accurate.

And nobody saw those coming.

Zack Snyder: Right! And that was fun. That's fun for us when we're able to announce Jesse Eisenberg to the audience.

Deborah Snyder: Everyone was like, "What?! Ah!"

Zack Snyder: Yeah, that's fun.

Read the entire interview at The Huffington Post website.