Earlier this week we heard rumors that Warner Bros. requested that director Zack Snyder return to the set with Ben Affleck and film more Batman scenes for the movie. Apparently the film was heavily drenched in Superman and needed a little bit of evening out.
It turns out that yes, the film is getting more Batman, but not exactly for those reasons (although they could be – who knows). Zack Snyder revealed to The Daily Beast that the reason Dawn of Justice is getting the bat-treatment is because it's a whole new Batman and they have some serious explaining to do:
Only in that because it’s a different Batman than the Batman that was in the Chris Nolan movies, so we have a little bit more explaining to do—and you just had a whole Superman movie. But I think only in that way, because you need to understand where Batman is with everything. And that’s more toward the beginning, but it evens back out as it goes on.
As far as the interaction between Superman and Batman in the film, it sounds like there's going to be plenty of boundary testing between the two. Regardless of this film, Batman and Superman do end up on the Justice League together:
They’re actually opposite sides of the same coin. It’s interesting because Batman’s a man and Superman’s a god, if you think about it in those terms. So their relationship is very contentious. What Superman sees as Batman’s limits, Batman sees as Superman trying to control him, acting like an absolute dictator.
What we went after was the humanity of each character. We tried to say, ‘What would Batman have to do to unravel Superman, and what would Superman have to do to unravel Batman?’ Their conflict is based on each others’ understanding of the other’s weakness. The fun of that is when you’re dealing with these mythological creatures — to make them human again, bring them back to earth. And to do that you have to know the rules before you can break them. They have to go all the way to the stratosphere before you can bring them back down.
Listen, Superman might be a 'god' when considering his super powers, but he's still an alien to me.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is set to release on March 25, 2016
