Following the clip this morning dealing with a scrapped “Star Wars” film Guillermo del Toro was slated to direct, the full career-spanning Happy Sad Confused interview with “Batman Begins” and “Man of Steel” writer David S. Goyer is out.
Goyer worked closely with Christopher Nolan on “The Dark Knight” trilogy and the pair conceived the Superman movie that would become Zack Snyder’s 2013 feature.
Goyer wrote the script for that film which, as opposed to the raved about “Batman Begins,” scored mixed reviews. After that Cavill never got the chance to lead another standalone Superman film with his appearances in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Justice League” all about building a universe.
In the interview, Goyer agreed with host Joshua Horowitz’s sentiment that Warners should have developed a direct standalone “Man of Steel” sequel with Henry Cavill instead of attempting to rush through a cinematic universe with “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”. He puts it down to a revolving door of executives with big ideas and no follow-through:
“I know the pressure we were getting from Warner Bros., which was, ‘We need our MCU! We need our MCU!’ And I was like let’s not run before we walk. The other thing that was difficult at the time was there was this revolving door of executives at Warner Bros. and DC. Every 18 months someone new would come in. We were just getting whiplash. Every new person was like, ‘We’re going to go bigger!’
I remember at one point the person running Warner Bros. at the time had this release that pitched the next twenty movies over the next ten years. But none of them had been written yet!. It was crazy how much architecture was being built on air… This is not how you build a house.”
Goyer also worked on the “Blade” trilogy, writing all three films and directing the third. He confirms he originally worked with David Fincher, before he made “Se7en,” on bringing a “Blade” movie to life.
Fincher did a two-hour “fully fleshed out visual pitch” which Goyer dubs a tour around the table of the aesthetics of this scene, that character” and Goyer had never seen something like that before. That thinking infused Goyer’s further revisions. Stephen Norrington ended up directing the “Blade” film years later.
