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Zack Snyder Discusses the 'Batman v Superman' Ending and What it Means Going Forward

HaydnSpurrell HaydnSpurrell Warning. Spoilers to follow.

Batman v Superman is proving to be as divisive as the battle between bat and alien itself, truly earning the moniker that audiences will either love it or hate it. There's no in-between on this one.

Zack Snyder has been doing press for a while, and will probably be doing it for a while longer. Now, he's come out to discuss that shocking ending that no one really saw coming, pulling straight from the famous comic book storyline of the 90s to culminate in the death of Superman.

Snyder, along with screenwriters Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer, made the decision to kill off Superman at the ending of the film, and on coming to that decision Snyder had this to say: "It was pretty early on, and [Christopher] Nolan and I had a long conversation about it, a really great, sort of philosophical conversation about it.

"He was really cool because he played an amazing devil's advocate about why not to do it, and then in the end was like, 'No you're right, it's better to do it.'" He elaborated on why he wanted to do it in the first place next, which boils down to having Batman lead the Justice League.

"We had a version that we talked about where [Superman] just - this isn't it, but where he got frozen and shot into space or something, so he's kinda gone. Because one of the big things I wanted to make sure of was that as we went into Justice League, Bruce Wayne was the one who was gathering the Justice League.

"I thought it was really important to have Bruce Wayne be the samurai who goes and finds the other samurai, that to me was important. And with Superman around it's kinda hard, because Superman's Superman so it's kinda hard for me to be like, 'Yeah I wanna put a Justice League together.'

It's like, 'Okay, but maybe Superman should be doing that. You're just a guy. You're a cool guy, don't get me wrong, but you're just a guy." So it seems Batman will be at the forefront of the formation of the Justice League, which gives the non-metahuman character added value to a team of superheroes.

Furthermore, Snyder wanted the death to resonate for the character of Superman himself. "I thought for the evolution of Superman's character, there's a crucible that he has to go through to really embrace his humanity or find what is the ultimate thing about being human? The ultimate thing you face is your mortality, and that's a thing that I think is really cool about this."

And to close a pretty fascinating look into the conception of Superman's fate in the film, Snyder responded to the question of the character's return. “I’m gonna say this: the second you do the first part of it, the death and resurrection are the same thing in a weird way.

"You have to know. The reason I wanted to do it the way we did it is because I don’t want the audience completely off the hook with it. They still have to go like, ‘What the fuck? Are you kidding me?’. There’s a way to signal towards a more definitive resurrection concept, but I didn’t wanna do that because I want that to be real for them when they see it, I want the experience to be real and then the sort of need to be real later on. Suffice it to say there is a plan, but that’s gonna be—you need to wait and see.”

Source: Collider

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