DCCU: Putting the TV Shows And Part of Nolan Trilogy in it

I am baffled that people still cant accept the fact the the Nolan trilogy was its own thing and this Batman is a new one. Its over. The nolan movies were great but its over and they are definitely not part of the DCCU.
Affleck is gonna own in BVS.

No, enough with the Nolan "Batman" already.

Singer made the X-Men look like Nationwide Insurance agents.

* Batman*
*guarantee*

@ DeathstrokeTerminator

No the fault is ALL Warner Brothers. You cannot find me 1 quote from Nolan where he indicates that they cannot continue the universe he created. In fact he suggested the EXACT OPPOSITE when he encouraged Warner Brothers to do a Catwoman spinoff using the character he had established whether he was the director or not. I find it funny that he would encourage adding to the Catwoman story which exists in the same universe, but be opposed to Batman...AND... even more importantly...Who cares if Nolan did not want his Batman connected to something else. The rights of the movies and the character of Batman is owned by Warner Brothers. They do not need his permission.

Finally the nonsensical argument that the world of Batman is "too realistic" doesn’t hold water unless you believe in : a microwave emitter that turns water in to gas instantly; a Bat-mobile (which is essentially a tank) that can jump from building to building and later across a river; a device that can summon and apparently control swarms of bats; a gadget that can reconstruct shattered bullets; a man who walks around with half his face burned off; a sonar device that takes over peoples cell phone to create a sonic image of any place in the world; a mercenary (Bane) who is able to punch through concrete pillars without breaking his hands; or a program that can wipe out your entire existence from every computer on earth.

There is plenty of fantasy in Batman to accommodate a less fantastic Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern which despite claims to the contrary COULD BE DONE!

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let the nolan trilogy be done. its over. move on those movies were Great but we need something new for [frick]s sakes

Batman is like James Bond.
There can be several incarnations over the years and people don't need to directly know all of the backstory of each Bond, so with Ben Affleck's Bruce, we as an audience can recognise that Batman is older and retired without needing to know everything about his past or saying "Nolan's trilogy is his past".

The Nolan universe should not only be cannon but should anchor the entire DC universe. The only people to benefit from the Batman reboots are Marvel. Why? Because doing so saturates the market with the same character making anything unique about them less interesting - not more so. We recently learned this lesson with the Amazing Spider-man a reboot that happened too soon. As you can see the diminishing returns from that venture has made it so that neither rebooted movie from that franchise has thus far ever matched the success of the first three...no matter how many villains or iconic scenes like the death of Gwen Stacy that they put in the films.

Batman versus Superman will occur in exactly the same way. No matter how many Justice League members they try to shove into the film, it will barely do better if at all than Man of Steel. The idea that you can just replace characters every so often is absurd in CBM''s. Man of Steel which is over 30 years removed from the first two Superman films is STILL being compared with Reeves take on it. The fact that Zack Snyder seemed surprised by that when he stated "Everyone clings to the Christopher Reeve version of Superman" when his Superman was criticized is an echo of all of the other people on this site who are tone deaf to what the public wants and it is not a movie about an old super hero fighting with Superman played by an actor who nearly no one wants in the part. They will cling to the Christian Bale version which they have come to love and the fact that there was no reason to not continue with him in the role will make it all the more likely that fans reject this "new" Batman.

@sintzu

"when batman begins came out did it have the same problim as man of steel and amazing spider-man in terms of the public not accepting bale over michael keaton ?"

Excellent question!!!!

The reason that it was different was because the immediate past version of Batman was BAD! In the case of Spider-man and recently Batman, the immediate past versions were generally liked. You could argue "well what about Brandon Routh? But that actually somewhat proves the point the box office take for Man of Steel and Superman Returns domestically is $276,458,500, and $243,152,100 respectively...not that big a difference. Man of Steel made a huge amount more overseas, but it is common knowledge that the international market for films has exploded in the last decade which Superman Returns did not benefit as much from. Looking at the domestic numbers it did not do that much better. In fact neither film has reached the adjusted box office success of the first two Superman films.

I am glad someone on this site realizes that the public is vastly bigger than the people who are focused on comic books. While people may criticize Warner Brothers for a movie like Green Lantern, their biggest sin was listening ONLY to comic book nerds and making a film only they would like.

What should have been..

@ sintzu

Nice find!

I think those pictures speak for themselves. It was a bad mistake to change Batman. I think they are going to laugh at Affleck.

I am not sure what Affleck could do to win everyone over. I loved Henry Cavill as Superman. I don't think he is as good of an actor as Christopher Reeve, but I thought he did a fine job. But that still did not stop people from comparing him to Reeve even though Reeve is not even able to take over the role. When Fox studios' tried to reboot X-men with First Class we saw it happen again as it became one of the worst performing X-men films and luckily they did not try to reboot Logan (Wolverine).

That is why I say that Warner Brothers should have stuck with Bale and could have built a shared universe that is better than Marvels.