Man of Steel 2: Zack Snyder Teases Superman vs. Brainiac

Zack Snyder’s 2013 Person of Metal was always supposed to kick off a shared universe of DC superhero films. And viewing it now, it nevertheless feels like a actually sound basis for particularly that. It’s a “first contact” movie in many approaches, effectively showcasing how humanity reacts to someone far more than human arriving in their midst, and Snyder’s signature design is tempered rather by an pretty much Nolan-esque tolerance and solution to the worldbuilding close to Superman.

Regrettably, Person of Steel was critically divisive, and “only” took in $668 million at the throughout the world box workplace. A additional than respectable blockbuster figure, but Warner Bros. execs had visions of the magic billion dollar amount dancing in their heads just after Marvel’s Avengers success the former summer months, and what ever initial plans there ended up for Man of Steel 2 ended up swiftly scuttled in favor of a additional aggressive staff-setting up technique that would rapid keep track of a Justice League movie. How quickly? Nicely, Guy of Steel opened on June 14, 2013 but by July 20, 2013 the studio declared that Person of Metal 2 would in point introduce Batman.

Of training course, we would arrive to know that film as the even far more divisive Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but at the time, admirers ended up glad that Man of Steel 2 was a actuality, despite its Gotham City visitor star. But as quite a few have suspected, that wasn’t the authentic program for the sequel, and Zack Snyder has been talking about the place his Superman motion pictures could have long gone were they not conscripted into the provider of hustling the Justice League to the major screen.

“We talked about a Brainiac motion picture,” Snyder told BroBible. Brainiac would have been a purely natural choice for the sequel, contemplating how significantly worldbuilding and treatment was done on Krypton in the initial film. At the time, Brainiac experienced in no way been performed appropriately in are living action (it remains the excellent missed possibility of the Christopher Reeve era, way too), and it wasn’t until 2018’s Krypton Tv series that we got a appropriate appear at just one of Superman’s most effective baddies in are living motion.