2015 Movie News Archives

September 10, 2015: Zack Snyder Talks "Batman v Superman", Rumors and Mythology

Batman v Superman TheDailyBeast.com has published a very interesting interview with "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" director Zack Snyder, in which he discusses the launch of the Doritos "Crash the Super Bowl" contest, why Superman and Batman transcend the Superhero movie genre, and those recent rumors about Batman dominating screen time in the upcoming movie.

Here are a few excerpts from the interview...

    "Chris Terrio and I worked on the [Batman v. Superman] script, and he did an amazing job," Snyder said of the March 25, 2016, blockbuster, which pits Affleck's Batfleck against Cavill's Man of Steel and will lead off 10 more planned DC superhero flicks. "It's great fun, but it also has an eye toward the future - it's going toward Justice League. Early on, once we decided that we were going to put Batman in the movie, then I was like, 'OK, good! Because you know what that means? It means the floodgates can open!'"

    "It's a tricky process, setting up the DC universe, or Justice League," Snyder said. "The credit goes to [Batman Begins director] Chris Nolan because he set the die for the DC Universe in a great way that I tried to emulate. I look at it as more being mythological than, say, bubblegum. And I think that that's appropriate for Batman and Superman because they're the most mythological of our superheroes."

Responding again to the idea that Superhero movies will go the way of the Westerns...

    "It goes to the mythological nature of the movies that we're making," he said. "I feel like he's right. But I feel like Batman and Superman are transcendent of superhero movies in a way, because they're Batman and Superman. They're not just, like, the flavor of the week Ant-Man - not to be mean, but whatever it is. What is the next Blank-Man?"

And what about those rumors that Batman will be more prominent in "Batman v Superman" than Superman?

    "Only in that because it's a different Batman than the Batman that was in the Chris Nolan movies, so we have a little bit more explaining to do - and you just had a whole Superman movie," he smiled. "But I think only in that way, because you need to understand where Batman is with everything. And that's more toward the beginning, but it evens back out as it goes on."

Read the complete interview at The Daily Beast website.



2015 Movie News

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