From Total film.
Director: Zack Synder
Starring :Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisnberg Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa
It's long overdue
Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker first pitched the movie at the turn of the millennium but frank miller's four part the dark knight returns, in which a de-retired batman battles superman (who now working for the us government) was published back in 1986.
After walker piqued interest, Akiva Goldsman was commissioned to write a script in which against the advice of superman , Bruce Wayne avengers the jokers hit on his girlfriend , but the project was shelved but not before an Easter egg was seen in opening moments of iam legend (also penned by goldsman ; a vast poster of combined logo in the times square. The new logo is not dissimilar.
It's Muscular
Tabloids suggest not only did Ben Affleck at 42 start training twice a day from the moment he signed on the dotted line to play batman but he & returning superman Henry cavil - 10 years his junior - engaged in one -upmanship on set,trying to outfit one another between take.Rather than suppress the posturing, director Zack Snyder was said to be glad it added tension to their scenes.
It's not a direct Adaptation
While there are elements of miller's dark knight returns in BvS , its not the only graphic novel said to be informing David S Goyer's screenplay as rewritten by Argo's Chris Terrio. Also offending inspiration are mark waid and Alex Ross's four part kingdom come,from 1996 in which batman resents superman for abandoning earth a decade earlier in our hour of need & batman: noel by lee bermejo - a reworking of dicken's a Christmas carol with Bruce Wayne as scrooge.
It's the second DCCU movie
Not that Dc has actually adopted rival marvel's nomenclature but bvS is officially the second in its shared universe series, following Snyder's man of steel . Banished are all the memories of reeve, routh, hackman & spacey, not to mention the batman of yore - Keaton, kilmer, clooney & bale -as Warner bros readies another 11 cross over films,starting with the suicide squad then wonder woman, the flash, aqua man, shazam, cyborg, green lantern,two justice league film's & stand alone superman & batman sequels into 2020.
It Features an awesome batsuit
Although the intel's been discovered by supposed source rehan jalali,affleck's trainer,details emerged last year of two batsuits - one in classic rubber,another encrusted in kryptonite with missile launchers,the trailer seem to confirm the armoured incarnation,one shot showing batman in a battle-scarred helmet with his eye aglow, keen to brag himself a souvenir, Affleck asked the producer about "taking the suit home at the end they said for "$100k" Affleck said well maybe i'll just take a picture..."
It'll introduce wonder woman
While it's another two years til her stand alone movie flies in, amazonian goddess Diana prince will grace screens in bvS, in the xena warrior princess like form of a fast & furious regular Gal Gadot 2011 reboot the new 52 is basis for this wonder woman indicating she'll be seen as the daughter of zeus & love interest for superman uh oh lois how this fits the chronology of her own origin-story movie ("an amazon princess comes to the world of the man to become the greatest of the superheroines remains to be seen.
It'll be enormous
Perhap on the advice of fan christopher Nolan who acted in a consulting role during development, BvS will be pretty shot in imax format as if 3D weren't eye-popping enough,there are logistical issue with the sixe & noise of imax cameras but one scene reported to have been shot using the hi-res tech is the murder of young bruce wayne's parents - even though the wayne are notably about from the cast list
It'll be all one film
Inevitably there was talk of chopping the much anticipated enter the knight for once sanity prevailed & the epic will be released intact, Albeit with the later of the two mooted release dates the phantom first installment having been penciled in for this year. Dc isnt immune to eking out its material,however & snyder will return to direct the justice league movies planned for 2017 & 2019.
It'll be Cameo-tastic
We hope. Rumors abound as to how links will be built to the suicide squad & justice league titles to come, with Jared Leto's joker tipped to be making a post credits appearance & talk of lexcorp reanimating a man of steel adversary. We do know holly hunter, scoot mcnairy,captain america:winter soldier's callan mulvey & jena malone have been cast in unspecified roles with the latter tipped to be playing a female robin but snyder's staying suitably schtum.
