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@Brave -

To each their own. I always thought The Dark Knight trilogy would've been the perfect way to start off the DCEU. Batman v Superman would've made much more sense seeing Bale's Batman come out of retirement to investigate the alien threats that question his beliefs.

@E4Nigma -

Bravo!!!!!!

THAT IS EXACTLY HOW THEY SHOULD HAVE STARTED USING BALE'S BATMAN!!!

You are on the right track with your thinking. There was a very organic way that Man of Steel could have picked up and dove tail into the end of the Dark Knight Rises. But unfortunately, someone who shall remain nameless was not creative enough to think of this costing this studio probably BILLIONS in opportunity costs and continued derision!

@Forthas -

There's so much potential to build a great DC cinematic universe from the The Dark Knight Trilogy but sadly WB never realized it.

@Forthas

Well said. Nolan's Batman will always be my favorite. The movie's had the best tone, cast, reviews, box office performance, etc. They could've just expanded from there making movies about Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash, Green Lantern, etc, with out of retirement Batman/Bruce Wayne cameos connecting the films and showcasing the 'World's Greatest Detective' investigating each character leading into Justice League. Everything was set up perfectly for DC to compete with Marvel but WB had to mess it up.

@E4Nigma - I disagree. Bale's Batman was a bitch. They were right to go a new direction. They fumbled going the aged and overly cynical/murderous route. But Bale's Batman would not have worked

@E4Nigma -

It would have. Batman would have had a more understandable reason to hate Superman
if it had been Lucius Fox who died at Wayne Financial during the Battle of Metropolis
rather than a random executive guy. Fox was one of three surrogate father figures
in Bruce's life along with Alfred and Gordon.

Seeing Fox die in Metropolis would have hurt the audience and made Batman's rage and
ruthlessness more understandable. I understand that Snyder wanted the sense of helplessness
Bruce felt in the presence of Superman and Zod, to return him to what he felt seeing his parents
die.

But actually losing "another" father and have him be a man with a direct connection to Thomas
Wayne would have made Batman more sympathetic a character in spite of his actions because
we all loved Fox.

@WarnerBrother - It is completely Zack Snyder fault! According to an article by the Guardian.

“Snyder revealed he was initially encouraged by studio executives to recruit cast members from Nolan’s Batman trilogy but ultimately resisted the temptation.

“I was like, ‘Hey, come on guys, let’s all understand, it’s a different world.’ In the Batman universe that Chris Nolan created, Superman would have a hard time existing,” said the Watchmen director. “That’s why we did a reboot on the universe, so we could allow these characters to exist together. We needed to do that to have Batman exist in this world.”

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/10/zack-snyder-envisaged-christian-bale-in-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice

Nolan NEVER stated that the Dark Knight Trilogy is his own. Please back up that statement with a quote from him! He knows as well as everyone else that he does not own the rights to the characters and much of what appears in the films are themselves inspired by OTHER literature on Batman. So how could Nolan “own’ the franchise? He does not and he knows it. As far as Nolan “walled” off Batman by retiring him. He technically “retired” at the end of The Dark Knight yet contrary to your own logic, Nolan himself un-retired him to create the Dark Knight Rises. In addition, Nolan left Wayne in the exact same situation he was in at the beginning of Batman Begins...living overseas, leaving his wealth to Alfred and everyone thinking he was dead. If creatively that did not stop Batman from being created why would that stop him from returning?

The idea that Nolan would have been pissed off if they spun off from the Dark Knight Rises is an absurd idea that you and others made up. We know this because Nolan himself advocated in public that Warner Brothers should do a spinoff Catwoman film.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jul/12/anne-hathaway-dark-knight-rises

How can your statement be true? Show me a quote in which Nolan states that he is opposed to any spinoff films. That by itself blows up everything you wrote. There was absolute no reason for WB to not expand on the Dark Knight franchise and Man of Steel was perfectly positioned to start that. Once Zack Snyder decided - on his own - to reboot Batman in Batman V Superman, the terrible universe that resulted began. The studio has probably lost billions in opportunity costs, it is the constant focus of public derision and everything they do with regard to the DC film universe is second guessed all because of one of the worst decisions in the history of cinema. No other studio would be dumb enough to be given the greatest CBM franchise ever, then turn around and throw away all of that success and goodwill for a franchise. The longer they continue on this road the longer it will take for WB to reach its potential which it won’t do unless they reboot everything that came after Man of Steel.