Director Zack Snyder Addresses Past Batman vs Superman Rumors!

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Since news of a big screen adaptation of DC's The Worlds Finest was announced, with the accompanying logo, at last years San diego Comic Con there have been many rumors and much speculation as to the details of the plot, which comic book characters will and wont feature and whom will play these roles. Of the four announced additions to the cast director Zack Snyder has surprised fans with his casting choices for each role - Ben affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor and Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman.

Speaking recently with the Huffington Post director Snyder and his wife Deborah addressed these past rumors...

HP: That’s interesting, because people can have the debate over what Superman did or didn’t do at the end of “Man of Steel,” but, visually, it looks a lot different than your prior work. 

Zack Snyder: From the beginning, I had a philosophical approach to what I would do with Superman. And I always sum it up by saying that the most realistic movie I’ve made is a movie about Superman –because that’s what I felt like the movie needed. 

HP: Did you ever consider making it with a different visual style? 

Zack Snyder: No. I mean, I had a knee-jerk reaction to that script that was “this movie needs to feel like it’s stone-cold real.” And that was, to me, ironic and I’m always looking for some ironic element within the storytelling — like some bit of meta. For me to get excited about it, it needs to infiltrate the movie. And for me, that was that a Superman movie would be real. 

HP: 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. 

HP: 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.” 

HP: 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. 

HP: 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!” 

Gavin

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