Zack Snyder Talks Christopher Nolan's Batman Legacy & Building The DC Universe From The Ground Up
There's still about eight months to go until "Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice" hits theaters, but given how heartily Warner Bros. has thrown the movie into the press machine already, you might think it was coming out in just a couple of weeks. Perhaps part of the reason the promotion has started this early is to get everyone used to Ben Affleck now wearing the cape and cowl, and give Zack Snyder an opportunity to move out of what he admits is a very long shadow cast by Christopher Nolan's trilogy of Dark Knight movies. And in fact, he's a bit relieved not to be shouldering the weight of delivering a solo movie about the character.
"If it was a Batman movie it would be a much more difficult proposition because of how good Chris' movies are. We live in gratitude to those movies," Snyder told Empire. "Chris set a tone for the DC Universe, and separated us from Marvel in a great way. We are the legacy of those movies."
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