Zack Snyder says early plans placed Man of Steel in The Dark Knight universe

Christopher Nolan wrapped up his extremely profitable Batman trilogy in 2012 with The Darkish Knight Rises, and the very subsequent yr, Zack Snyder kicked off Warner Bros.’ DC Universe with MAN OF STEEL, which was solely separate from what Nolan had crafted. Nonetheless, whereas talking with MTV’s Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Snyder revealed that there had been speak of Man of Metal going down in The Darkish Knight universe when he began creating the movie in 2010.

It was not 100% off the desk. We did speak about it slightly bit.

Even when Man of Metal had taken place within the Nolan-Verse, we probably would not have seen Henry Cavill’s Superman gallivanting round with Christian Bale’s Batman because the ending of The Darkish Knight Rises discovered Bale’s Bruce Wayne hanging up the cape and passing the mantle of The Darkish Knight to Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s John “Robin” Blake. “It will’ve been fascinating as a result of, simply doing the mathematics, if we had finished that, the Batman on this film would’ve been Joseph Gordon-Levitt,” Snyder mentioned. “Which may’ve been cool…however Nolan, and that i don’t blame him, his factor doesn’t get muddied by these different issues touching it. It’s a decent field, and I’m glad I didn’t f**okay with it as a result of its a fairly good trilogy.” Certainly it was.

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After all, Henry Cavill’s Superman did meet up with Batman within the sequel, albeit a brand new model performed by Ben Affleck, however early on, Zack Snyder wasn’t certain if the actor would signal on, so he had one other actor within the wings — Purple Sparrow actor Matthias Schoenaerts “I used to be speaking to him so much about it,” Snyder mentioned. “He by no means acquired within the go well with, however I did do a bunch of mock-ups of him, as a result of Ben was on the fence. And I don’t blame him. Everybody ought to be on the fence whenever you’re requested, ‘Do you need to play Batman?'” On the finish of the day, Affeck did signal on, however Schoenaerts additionally felt that he was too younger to play the half on the time. Zack Snyder’s newest, Military of the Lifeless, is now streaming on Netflix.