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October 13, 2014: Batman's Backstory and Wonder Woman's Origins Revealed
Posted by Neil Cole
Producer Charles Roven recently sat down for an interview with the Loyola Marymount School of Film and TV as part of their "Hollywood Masters" series.
During the course of the interview, Roven spoke at length about "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" and revealed some interesting facts about Batman's backstory and the origins of Wonder Woman. Here's an excerpt:
The biggest difference between what Chris [Nolan] did in The Dark Knight Trilogy and what we're doing now is that Bruce Wayne, Batman, lived in what I called a closed universe, in that there were no superheroes in it. There's Batman, and he is a human being, and Bruce Wayne has taken himself and made himself - in many ways, even though he's definitely got some dysfunction - he's made himself into, in many ways, the best a human being can be intellectually, in terms of his ability to be a detective, physically, etcetera. But he's real. He's human, he's a human being. He has no superpowers.
When we embarked on Man of Steel... one of the things we were doing was we were creating a universe that had a superhero in it, because Superman is clearly a superhero, he has superpowers. So once we did that, it was with the knowledge that, if the movie was successful and we expanded the universe, we were going to expand it and populate it with other, like characters.
Wonder Woman's in it. We know that. She has powers, she's a goddess. She's a demigod. Her father was Zeus.
View the complete interview after the jump:
"Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" stars Henry Cavill as Clark Kent/Superman alongside Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, Ray Fisher as Cyborg, Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Laurence Fishburne as Perry White, and Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth. Holly Hunter, Callan Mulvey, Tao Okamoto, and Scoot McNairy also star in yet-to-be-confirmed roles.
The film is scheduled to hit theaters on March 25, 2016.
