[This is the launch of a three-part series chronicling the creation and release of director Zack Snyder’s DC Comics film adaptations starting with 2013’s Man of Steel. Our focus will lie on the forces at play in developing these films and the arc of Zack Snyder’s overtures towards asserting creative control in the realm of a blockbuster […]
Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman Takes Place in a Universe We Already Know
In this essay, I will establish that Zack Snyder’s latest movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is actually a continuation of the Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher Batman films. Needless to say, spoilers will follow. Batman v Superman opens up on a scene we know all too well: the death of Martha and Thomas Wayne. We […]
What Are Thooose on the Set of Batman v. Superman?
The sequel to a film that received a middling response from critics and took in a modest (by blockbuster standards) box office, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice was in a precarious position before reports of its ballooning budget started to make the news. After a string of expensive failures including Jupiter Ascending, The Man from […]