Batman v Superman wasn’t the original title Zack Snyder and Chris Terrio wanted to go with. The director and writer recently revealed what they were initially going to call it. In addition, Terrio took a jab at the studio [Warner Bros.] = saying that he and Snyder disowned Batman v Superman. Citing it sounded “tone-deaf” and “[like a] Las Vegas, bust ’em up, WWE match”.
Snyder elaborated:
“I remember when there was a back-and-forth that I had with the studio, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was like the only title that [Warner Bros. liked]. The whole ‘v’ instead of ‘versus,’ it was like this crazy negotiation … I was like, ‘Guys, can’t we just do something like Son of Sun and Knight of Night, or something that’s a little bit more poetic?’ And they were like, ‘Absolutely not’ (laughs). I was like, ‘Is it a court case?'”
Terrio also said:
“I would have loved something really simple, like ‘Batman and Superman.’ Or something in the vein of Man of Steel that feels more like it’s a progression from Man of Steel. For a while, we talked about actually titling it ‘Justice League: [Subtitle],’ to suggest that this movie was going to be the beginning of the Justice League, even though it didn’t really look like it. Like ‘Justice League: Foundations,’ or ‘Justice League: Rising.’ I’m just extemporaneously trying to think of titles that we batted back-and-forth.”
Snyder continued:
“People always ask me about BVS and I always go, ‘Listen. The truth is, we kind of stole that movie from the studio in some ways.’ It wasn’t 100% the movie the studio they wanted to make,” Snyder said. “If you look at sort of this arc of deconstruction, and construction, and deconstruction, and construction, that was kind of this rhythm that we were on. And certainly, BVS is a take-it-apart movie, and Justice League is a put-it-back-together movie.
So for me, in retrospect, I do agree with Chris, I wish that we had fought them harder. But I felt like I was sneaking one by them with BVS, that I feel like when they said, ‘Okay, but we just want to call it Batman v Superman.’ I go, ‘The movie that we’re talking about making? Oh, okay, in that case, that’s fine’ (laughs). As long as it’s not, ‘We don’t like the title and the movie.'”
What did you think about Batman v Superman?
Source: Justice Con
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