A dead Batman, Superman takes over the Justice League and Wonder Woman battles Darkseid … Zack Snyder has revealed his vision for a five-movie plan.
Pity it’ll probably never happenThe idea that Zack Snyder is a visionary still doesn’t sit quite right, even following his surprisingly excellent Justice League re-cut.
After all, this is the director of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a movie that always seemed as if it had been named by the marketing department and only then sent to the scriptwriter.
Was Snyder’s Batman always intended from the start to be a brutish, gun-toting meanie? Or was he forced to reimagine him that way because somebody at DC was determined to see Kal-El and the Dark Knight battle it out on the big screen? It is hard to imagine Michael Keaton or Christian Bale’s good-hearted superheroes suddenly deciding to destroy the last son of Krypton.
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