Is this news? I thought this happened before Christmas...
...but now there's talk of Christian Bale reconsidering his level of done-ness with Batman.
That's news.
But we all know there's a lot riding on Man of Steel...
DC knows it...
Warner Brothers knows it...
...but let's take a look at it:
First of all, MoS started production before DC comics came out with their "New 52" concept - which is why we were all scratching our heads at the first pics of the cinematic version of the costume.
Then Avengers came out, causing DC to scramble ideas to get a Justice League film going.
So in a little over a year, DC found themselves in quite the pickle - getting fans into their brand new revamp of the entire company while falling waaaaay behind Marvel in cinematic popularity and revenue.
Their answer was to put much more emphasis on MoS's success.
No pressure there.
Now let's look at Marvel...
They started with one film and yeah, they dealt with a lot of pressure to make it work, but it more a financial pressure than a "gotta beat the Distinguished Competition" mentality.
Make Iron Man the best film possible. If it didn't work, they had a few more tries to make things with sequels.
Iron Man ended up doing better than they expected, and that got the overall ball rolling.
My point is that DC's got so much riding on MoS, and believe me when I say I hope it does well, but I wish they either got the "New 52" started before production on the film began or got their s#!t together sooner and worked off of Nolan's Batman Begins concept...which was successful enough to go toe-to-toe with Marvel's films.
In other words DC has spent so much time re-inventing themselves that they may have missed their window of opportunity.
Again - I hope I'm wrong, and I would love to see Bale back...but how could they do it without messing with Nolan's continuity?
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