We’re back. With a new logo, a new
design, and some big news: the Superman/Batman movie is happening. Set to
release in 2015, it’s a dream come true.
Saturday at the San Diego
Comic-Con, at the end of the Warner Bros. exhibit, surprise guest sat Zach
Snyder took to the stage and revealed the release of another Superman film. He
then called out friend and actor in Man of Steel Harry Lennix who read a
passage from The Dark Knight Returns: “I want you to remember Clark, in all the
years to come and in your most private moments, I want you to remember the one
man who beat you”. The lights faded and an image of the Man of Steel movie logo
appeared on screen, followed by a Batman symbol, resembling The Dark Knight
Returns logo, appeared behind it. Its official.
Of course, this is the greatest
thing to happen in recent memory, probably since the announcement of the Man of
Steel movie. Finally after 74 years of these two iconic characters, appearing
in comics and cartoons, side-by-side, we get to see them together on the big
screen. Unfortunately, this poses many new questions, and many new
complications. The biggest being: who will play the Dark Knight? Another is who
will be the villain worthy of challenging the World’s Finest? Another: what is
the potential of this film? If done correctly, it has the makings to be the
greatest superhero film of all time.
General Zod posed a big threat to
Superman, and along with his Kryptonian minions, the world too. A villain
capable of battling both Superman and Batman has to pose just as big a threat,
but perhaps someone of Zod’s power is too threatening. Darkseid is better left
for the entire Justice League, Braniac, for another Superman film down the
road, and any Batman villain is out of the question as this is still a Superman
film first. The front-runner, of course, is Lex Luthor. He has all the
motivation, after the destruction caused in the first one, to start his
campaign against the Man of Steel, and he has the money and the resources to
still make a good villain. He is also on par with the characteristics of Bruce
Wayne to be an adversary to both heroes. And based on the amount of LexCorp
teases in Man of Steel, he appears to be the obvious choice. There’s one
question pretty much answered.
