2016 Movie News Archives

March 9, 2016: Zack Snyder Talks In Depth About "Batman v Superman"

IMAX Poster FilmInk has published an in depth interview with director Zack Snyder, talking about "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", following on from "Man of Steel", the casting of Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, and Jesse Eisenberg. Here's part of the interview...

    Can we talk about Lex Luthor? Was the script changed when Jesse Eisenberg was cast?

    "I don't know where you heard that. When we wrote the script with Lex in it, we invented this version of Lex. We never had an older version of Lex in our movie. We talked about it, sure. I met with Jesse for another part, and after he left, I was like, 'Oh man, he was awesome...he could play Lex!' It was very easy for Chris Terrio to channel Jesse because they're very similar people in the best kind of way. They have similar points of view on a lot of things. They're intellectual types. The careful construction of that character came right out of Chris. And, it was Chris and Jesse from the beginning, you know? The part was custom made for Jesse, and Chris did an amazing job creating it. When Lex Luthor confronts Superman and they talk about the why of it, it's a crushingly cool point of view."

    You've got a long slate of films coming out. How much in the scripting of this was foreshadowing what's to come?

    "I tried to have as much fun with it as possible, maybe because I love comic books and I love the potential for that kind of madness. We've been talking a lot about where we're going to go with Justice League...we kind of knew what Justice League was going to be pretty early on, which allowed us to lay the groundwork in a lot of ways. When you see the movie, you'll really get a sense that there's a second layer coming, and filtering down through the film, as far as what's possible. We slowly introduce the other characters and how they play and what is their purpose and where they are in the world."

Read the entire interview at FilmInk.com.au



2016 Movie News

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