FACTS ABOUT BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

BATMAN V. SUPERMAN BORROWS ITS THEMATIC

ARC AND TONE FROM ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS

BATMAN STORIES THERE IS, THE DARK KNIGHT

RETURNS BY WRITER FRANK MILLER, WHOSE WORK

HAS BEEN THE INSPIRATION FOR SEVERAL ESTEEMED

COMIC BOOK MOVIES, INCLUDING 300 AND

BATMAN BEGINS

THIS WILL BE ZACK SNYDER’S THIRD FILM WITH DC.

HIS FIRST WAS WATCHMEN AND HIS SECOND WAS

MAN OF STEEL. TRUTH BE TOLD, MOST OF US WILL

ALWAYS REMEMBER HIM THANKS TO 300

IN THE COMIC BOOK MINISERIES THE DARK KNIGHT

RETURNS, BATMAN AND SUPERMAN FIGHT LONG

AFTER THE JUSTICE LEAGUE IS DISASSEMBLED.

IN THIS MOVIE, THEY WILL FIGHT BEFORE THE

LEAGUE IS EVEN FORMED

THE REASON FOR BATMAN TAKING ON SUPERMAN IS

BECAUSE IN THE EVENTS OF MAN OF STEEL (2013),

A WAYNE FINANCIAL BUILDING IS DESTROYED. BRUCE

WAYNE IS ALSO CONCERNED OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN

IF SUPERMAN DECIDES TO USE HIS POWERS FOR EVIL

THE FILM WAS ORIGINALLY PITCHED IN AUGUST

2001 BY ANDREW KEVIN WALKER, WITH WOLFGANG

PETERSEN TO DIRECT AND AKIVA GOLDSMAN TO

WRITE THE SCRIPT. GOLDSMAN’S SCRIPT HAD

BRUCE WAYNE’S FIANCÉE SLAIN BY THE JOKER,

WHICH SENDS HIM ON A REVENGE RAMPAGE AND

BRINGS HIM INTO CONFLICT WITH SUPERMAN,

WHO TRIES TO STOP HIM. THE FILM WAS

SHELVED, BUT IN GOLDSMAN’S I AM LEGEND (2007)

A TEASER POSTER FOR THE FILM (THE SUPERMAN

SHIELD INSIDE A BAT) IS SEEN IN THE OPENING SCENE

SUPERMAN’S SUIT IS CONSIDERABLY BRIGHTER IN

THIS FILM, WITH THE BLUE BEING LIGHTENED TO

SUIT THE COMIC VERSION. THE YELLOW BACKGROUND

BEHIND THE “S” HAS BEEN MADE INTO A BRIGHT

GOLD. CERTAIN PATTERNS IN THE SUIT HAVE

CHANGED ALSO, NOTABLY ON THE “S.”

THIS WILL BE THE FIRST FILM IN 3D TO FEATURE

NOT JUST BATMAN, BUT WONDER WOMAN, CYBORG,

THE FLASH, AND AQUAMAN. SUPERMAN’S FIRST 3D FILM

WAS THE MAN OF STEEL (2013)

IT WILL ALSO BE THE FIRST LIVE-ACTION FILM TO

INCLUDE BATMAN, SUPERMAN, AQUAMAN, AND

WONDER WOMAN TOGETHER

TALKING ABOUT WONDER WOMAN, KEEP IN MIND

THAT THIS IS HER FIRST LIVE-ACTION THEATRICAL

FILM APPEARANCE. THE CHARACTER HAS PREVIOUSLY

APPEARED IN TV PROGRAMS AND DIRECT-TO-DVD

ANIMATED FILMS