I don't want a dead Jim Gordon, *********. I don't want Carrie Kelly as Robin, I don't want **** Grayson as The Joker, and I don't want the ****ing Dark Knight Returns. Look, you want to gather inspiration for Batman's suit design or the battle with Superman? Go ahead, but we're not talking about a singular film, here; we're talking about the DC Universe on film for the better part of a decade, as all goes as planned, and, while I can accept some artistic interpretation, to have so many staples of the "mythology" that Snyder loves to refer to so much, essentially, either removed or prevented from existing in this universe is awful. Am I okay with Batman operating in the shadows for a while before Superman arrived? Absolutely. Am I okay with everything relevant to the Batman universe happening prior to his arrival? Not in the slightest.
I want to see the Batfamily. I want Nightwing and Robin, and Batgirl, and, maybe, even, Red Hood or Damian Wayne. I'm okay with stuff like Jason's demise or Grayson's leaving to fly solo happening in the past, but I don't want it to seem like we're just getting a shadow of Batman's former self; the leftovers, if I may.
Also, on another note, this **** pisses me off:
Zack Snyder Disses Marvel, ‘Ant-Man’ While Talking ‘Batman vs. Superman’
https://www.thewrap.com/batman-v-su...ps-marvel-for-flavor-of-the-week-superheroes/
Zack Snyder Is Being A Total Mean Girl About Ant-Man - MTV
As someone who liked Ant-Man, I feel like, after reading the articles, all of these headlines are, essentially, flamebait for this bull**** pissing contest between fanboys. The way he worded it, perhaps, made it low hanging fruit, but, from where I'm standing, he's just saying that the comic book bubble we're in, now, allows for far more niche projects, like Ant-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, and, even, Suicide Squad (do you expect him to call a film he's producing "flavor of the week," though?). He's right, though, and it's proven, with a couple of exceptions, that, even when Superhero films were few and far between, Batman and Superman were still able to make big bucks.
I think he and Spielberg are right, though; the water, it ebbs and flows, and what goes up, must come down. Eventually, I do think this is all going to peak, and, afterwards, we'll probably see very little from the genre, but I do think that, like he said, Batman and Superman will still manage to bring in audiences, and, maybe, even Spider-Man, though his track record is a bit hit and miss. The one I'm curious about, though, is Iron Man. To comic book fans, I'd say that old shell head was probably a B-lister, but, to the public at large, he was D-list; C-list, at best. The most they'd seen was a short-lived cartoon from the early nineties, or the occasional T-shirt in the kid's department of a JC Penney. I would say that, without question, Iron Man is now an A-lister, but his success is so inherently owed to Robert Downey Jr., and do defined by his portrayal, that I genuinely question its staying power once he's moved on, or the genre has fallen.
Moral of the story: the media are dicks.
