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TweetBatman v Superman is set two years after Man of Steel, but that doesn't it will be released in that time.
It
seems the ridiculous delay of the DC Comics film franchise will not effect the
timeline of the cinematic universe. Man
of Steel was released in 2013
and Batman v Superman was supposed to follow up in 2015.
Until a few weeks ago, Batman
v Superman was still just 'Untitled
Man of Steel sequel.' Let's breakdown Warner Bros. breakdown in
competence.
First!
As much as you loved Man of
Steel, it had some of the weakest storytelling of any superhero film.
It serves as an origin story, categorically, but the narrative was very loose
and disjointed. At times, the movie became needlessly existential, on the verge
of being convoluted. These negatives sent the film more to Sucker Punch territory, rather than the more
acclaimed 300 territory (all films directed by Zack
Snyder).
Although
Snyder has his style of digital backlots and hellacious action sequences, he is
not to blame. The great lapses in the film as a whole had to do with the
writing. I agree that the story took some new turns, compared to other Superman
films, but they happened to be the wrong turns. Superman's, and thus Clark
Kent's, character development was cut short by over extended trips to Krypton
and Clark's youth on Earth.
The
disjointed narrative overtook the movie during attempts to form chemistry
between a miscast Lois Lane and detached Clark. These scenes played out more
like a cinematic game of cat and mouse, rather than developing their
relationships to each other, or any of the other characters for that
matter.
I
won't even go into how the Man of Steel sequel turned into a
mini-Justice League film, then into Batman
v Superman: Dawn of Justice (way
to play it off).
Man
of Steel resulted
in a porous foundation on which to build a franchise. My points were
highlighted by the fact that the film received a 55% on Rotten Tomatoes and by
reports that the follow up film entered a form of development hell (maybe
limbo) due to story concerns. The list of cons outweighed the pros, and Warner
Bros. had to course correct on a massive scale. What we now know as Batman v Superman was pushed a full year to 2016, which
unavoidably delayed every other film in line.
Now
that Warner Bros. has their ducks in a row, they must resist the urge to shoot
them by moving out of the way of the shared Captain
America 3 release date.
Warner has WAY more to lose.
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