During his live commentary for “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” on Sunday morning, filmmaker Zack Snyder dropped some new reveals about the film, his abandoned plans for the DC extended universe, and what next.
We already covered some of this the other day, but now a bunch more details about what Snyder discussed has been posted and adds some compelling new elements to the film’s lore.
First up, Snyder confirms the 9/11 imagery of the opening and the collapse of Wayne Tower was very intentional and an example of ‘psychic trauma’ – a secondary one for Wayne following the death of his parents. Indeed the film’s key three men – Clark, Bruce & Lex – are all fixated on their fathers and have maintained tombs of sorts in their memory.
Superman’s entrance in Africa was originally a much bigger action scene but Snyder decided to go with a simpler entrance. Snyder also confirms that Jimmy Olsen was dead for good within this universe, and one of the things he wanted to explore was Superman’s morality when it becomes tied to a foreign war and political hearings. Religious imagery with him was also deliberate,
Snyder confirmed one supporting actor whom he had much bigger plans for was Harry Lennix who was being set up to be revealed as J’onn J’onzz (aka Martian Manhunter). In addition, both the Crimean War and the American Civil War were discussed as other possibilities for the setting of Wonder Woman’s first solo film before World War I was settled on.
Then of course there’s the ‘Martha’ scenes. Snyder says Batman’s loss of his moral compass drives his actions in the film, and the same name deal makes him recognise Superman as someone with a mother, and thus a human, despite his alien origins.
Finally, Snyder spoke about the possibility of doing an adaptation of Frank Miller’s seminal comic “The Dark Knight Returns,” saying that his films don’t necessarily cancel out such a possibility:
“I still think you could make a Dark Knight Returns movie. I don’t think this movie negates a Dark Knight Returns movie because I think Dark Knight Returns probably, in my opinion, is like, the greatest comic book ever written. That and Watchmen, for me, some of the greatest work, graphic fiction, ever written. It’s just amazing to me, and I think that, by all means, that movie can still be made. That would be fun to do. Someone should do it. But I think it would be great, and it’s certainly still to be done.”
Snyder has most recently been working on the zombie Vegas heist film “Army of the Dead” for Netflix.
Source: Heat Vision
