With San Diego Comic Con looming ahead of us next week, the expectation is that we will get to see new footage of the upcoming Batman V. Superman movie, with the additional hopes of finally seeing the Justice League Trinity together on screen for the first time. This, of course, just sparks up the age old argument of DC versus Marvel, with new Batman, Ben Affleck weighing in, “It (DC) is more mythic, it is more grand in that way, and it is a little more realistic. Just by their nature, these films can’t be as funny or as quick or as glib as Marvel movies.”
Continuing this theme of realism and consequence, Henry Cavill (Superman) adds in, “I like to think that Man of Steel was the perspective of the world from Clark, Kal-El, looking at the world and trying to exist with in it…Batman v Superman is definitely more mankind’s perspective of Superman.”
With Marvel’s MCU wrapping up Phase Two later this month with the release of Ant-Man and gearing up for Phase Three, there’s been plenty of speculation on how DC will catch up. With the two giants competing on both small and silver screens, the last several years have been a boom time for superhero fans, but following lukewarm reactions to 2013’s Man of Steel, DC is banking on next year’s BVS: Rise of Justice and Suicide Squad to bring them back into cinematic form.
DC and Warner Bros. have obviously committed a lot to bringing their mythos to life, Director Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) is hopeful, “if everything goes to plan it’ll be another five years of Justice League. I’ll be 10 years of superheroes by the end of this.”
Regardless, we’re in for some heavy hitting action. Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice arrives in theaters March 25, 2016.
