Superman (July 11th, 2025)

[intothevoid]

It would have worked fine if they just stuck to the plan.

From what I recall, Dawn of Justice / JL and the unmade final JL movie was all a plan put in place post MoS (influenced majorly by the runaway success of Marvel with the Avengers). There was initially a lot of discussion on a MoS sequel before that morphed into a BvS movie.

Even after BvS came to be there was still talk of a MoS 2 and a solo Batman film directed by Affleck (which eventually became The Batman).

So yeah I don’t think the initially ‘plan’ was for it to be MoS and then no more solo Superman films

So to come back to something that has been discussed ad nauseum in these forums in years past - the big mistake was for D.C. / WB to try to mimick what Marvel was doing when in fact Nolan had provided an entirely different template for D.C./WB with The Dark Knight Trilogy, and with great success. Nolan’s involvement with MoS was ostensibly to provide a similar platform for Superman, and letting Snyder run with it. THAT was the original plan.

Everything DC / WB did post that was reactionary and as a-dev stated, every move made subsequently was the wrong one. No wonder it ended with an incomplete story and multiple box office flops. There can never be any coherence to a plan if you keep making it up as you go along

 

[T8OO]

From what I recall, Dawn of Justice / JL and the unmade final JL movie was all a plan put in place post MoS (influenced majorly by the runaway success of Marvel with the Avengers). There was initially a lot of discussion on a MoS sequel before that morphed into a BvS movie.

Even after BvS came to be there was still talk of a MoS 2 and a solo Batman film directed by Affleck (which eventually became The Batman).

So yeah I don’t think the initially ‘plan’ was for it to be MoS and then no more solo Superman films

So to come back to something that has been discussed ad nauseum in these forums in years past - the big mistake was for D.C. / WB to try to mimick what Marvel was doing when in fact Nolan had provided an entirely different template for D.C./WB with The Dark Knight Trilogy, and with great success. Nolan’s involvement with MoS was ostensibly to provide a similar platform for Superman, and letting Snyder run with it. THAT was the original plan.

Everything DC / WB did post that was reactionary and as a-dev stated, every move made subsequently was the wrong one. No wonder it ended with an incomplete story and multiple box office flops. There can never be any coherence to a plan if you keep making it up as you go along

Batman was in the script for MoS2 before MoS came out. After JL3 and some sort of Flashpoint-style story the universe would have been reset to whatever point to let Snyder move on and whatever actors were going to stay or leave.