Batman's return to the big screen comes just four years after Christopher Nolan ended the Caped Crusader's story in The Dark Knight Rises, and it sounds like the filmmaker was a little take aback to learn that Zack Snyder wanted to pit him against Superman in a movie which, according to Empire Online, will essentially portray the character as a villain.
"You tell me if you don’t want me to do it," Snyder reportedly told Nolan before the director replied: "Well, we don’t own these characters. When you’re done making Batman movies, someone else will [make them]." Could this be why Nolan - who executive produced Man of Steel - decided to remove himself from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? Whatever the answer, Snyder got his blessing to move forward with his vision.
"I think he found it a little bit hard," Snyder admits. "I would feel the same way. In a lot of ways Batman v Superman is a very personal concept. It is just two people trying to understand each other’s point of view." Do you think Batman should have been left on the shelf a little longer?
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