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Then he brought out Man of Steel actor Harry Lennix to read a passage from The Dark Knight Returns, the 1986 Frank Miller miniseries that saw an aging Batman take down Superman. The filmmaker told the 6,500 people packed into Hall H that a Superman sequel was in development. Man of Steel became a hit, and after its release in 2013, Snyder electrified San Diego Comic-Con with a simple tease that packed a major punch. I like that his thing doesn’t get muddied by these other touches,” said Snyder. Ultimately, Nolan’s The Dark Knight films remained siloed off. “Maybe that’s why we didn’t do it,” said Snyder. That would have complicated things, as audiences likely wanted to see Bruce Wayne slug it out with Superman, not an alternate version of Batman. The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan’s 2012 conclusion to his Batman trilogy, ended with John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) taking over as Batman for Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale).
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Netflix's 'The Witcher' Season 2: TV Review We did talk about it a little bit,” Snyder told MTV‘s Josh Horowitz on Wednesday’s episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast. Yet as Snyder recalls it, in the early days of developing the property after he was hired in 2010, it wasn’t totally out of the question for Man of Steel to take place in the same universe. Nolan was known for being protective of his Dark Knight trilogy, wanting it to stand apart from any spinoffs or larger plans at DC. The caped crusader fights mortal, human enemies rather than aliens and gods, and most of the time is all the better for it.In 2013, Zack Snyder relaunched DC’s film universe with Man of Steel, which starred Henry Cavill as Superman and counted filmmaker Christopher Nolan among its producers and writers. Ra’s al Ghul comes back from the dead, but via Batman’s hallucination rather than any dinky Lazarus Pits. There is no Poison Ivy, as her supernatural control over plantlife is clearly from the realm of fantasy.
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But the British-American film-maker worked so hard to deliver a realistic vision of Gotham that it is hard to imagine him being involved in such a transformation, even if he did initially “godfather” Man of Steel before stepping away for subsequent DC episodes.Įvery single magical element from the comics is excised or explained away in Nolan’s Gotham. Weirder things have of course happened in the comics, and if Bale’s Batman ever needed a reason to return to the cape and cowl after faking his own death at the end of The Dark Knight Rises, this would have been a pretty good one. Photograph: Clay Enos/APĬould Nolan’s ultra-realistic vision of Gotham ever have existed alongside the more far-out and magical world often seen in the DC comics? It’s hard to imagine without some sort of major evolutionary event, following which the world wakes up one day to discover that weird and wonderful superpowers have started to become a reality. Triumph of tedium … Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Unfortunately by the time a knuckle-headed, gun-toting Batfleck turns up in Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice and starts fighting aliens, it’s patently clear this is a different superhero universe altogether. For the first half of Snyder’s film, as we see young Clark Kent wandering across a rugged working-class vision of America, rarely in costume and apparently living in a society that has never heard of superheroes, it’s almost possible to imagine that Nolan’s steely, hyper-modern Gotham might be just down the next turnpike. Ultimately though, Warner rather fudged the question of whether Henry Cavill’s Kal-El lives in the same DC version of the US inhabited by Bale’s dark knight. It’s even tempting to wonder if all those ill-founded reports of the Haverfordwest-born actor’s return that emerged around the time of Man of Steel’s release might have had some substance after all. Bale has even said previously that he would return as Batman in a heartbeat if Nolan showed him a brilliant script. The Nolan-Bale version of Wayne had retired previously as the caped crusader between The Dark Knight and its sequel, only to return, so there would have been no reason to stop him coming back for future episodes. The idea that Gordon-Levitt might have been the only option as the new Batman is, of course, nonsense. We did talk about it a little bit,” said Snyder, hinting that one of the reasons behind the final decision to start afresh was the fact that Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne had quit as Batman in 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises, leaving Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s John Blake as the only candidate to play the caped crusader in future films. Far-fetched, right? Well not according to Zack Snyder, who this week told MTV’s Josh Horowitz that the idea of setting subsequent DC films in Nolan’s universe was indeed discussed in the early days of development for the Superman reboot before being quietly put to one side.