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    Holly Hunter cast as Leslie Thompkins
    It was recently announced that Holly Hunter would be joining the cast of Zack Snyder's Batman Vs. Superman. There was no information on the character she would be playing, other than that it would be a new character created for the movie.

    Latino Review may have been able to shed some light on who she will be playing in the movie. They think that the actress will be playing Leslie Thompkins, or "a Leslie Thompkins replacement character."

    The site goes on to explain that Leslie is "a doctor who went to medical school with Bruce’s dad before he was murdered and in some versions of the Batman mythos, comforted young Bruce the very night of. Think of her like a female Alfred, almost."

    The character did appear in Batman: The Animated Series. She knew Bruce Wayne was Batman and would even treat Bruce for medical injuries. Technically, she and Alfred are like surrogate parents to Bruce.
    http://geektyrant.com/news/holly-hun...erman-revealed
    http://latino-review.com/2014/04/rum...n-vs-superman/

    Hans Zimmer returns as Composer
    Batman vs. Superman marks director Zack Snyder’s first collaboration with acting talent like Ben Affleck (playing Batman), Gal Gadot (playing Wonder Woman), and Jesse Eisenberg (playing Lex Luthor), but the filmmaker’s crew behind the camera features more familiar names to the Snyder world of cinema. That includes the movie’s co-writer David S. Goyer (Man of Steel), director of photography Larry Fong (300, Watchmen), and production designer Patrick Tatopoulos (300: Rise of an Empire, which Snyder co-wrote and produced), among others.

    There’s been some doubt, however, surrounding the return of Man of Steel composer Hans Zimmer on the sequel, mostly due to the Oscar-nominee saying that he’s not sure he should be involved on the project. The simple explanation is that Zimmer also scored Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, so he’s had additional reason to be concerned about repeating himself in Batman vs. Superman – seeing how Affleck’s Caped Crusader is expected to be quite different from Christian Bale’s (and thus, his musical theme ought to reflect that).

    At the same time, though, neither Snyder nor anyone else associated with Batman vs. Superman has expressed any real strong doubt about Zimmer coming back into the fold. Which is to say: now that we have confirmation that Zimmer’s return is happening, it’s not a huge surprise.

    Zimmer is currently working on the score for Nolan’s sci-fi tentpole Interstellar (which releases later this year), but he informed Digital Spy that Snyder has asked him to come back for the Man of Steel sequel – a request that Zimmer seems happy to oblige, despite his own concerns about the task ahead of him. Nonetheless, Batman vs. Superman is still just over two years away (if not further), so there will be plenty of time for Zimmer and Snyder to brainstorm what sort of leitmotifs would be most befitting characters like Batman and Wonder Woman, as they are presented in this film:

    We’ve already had a couple of chats, and once I finish the movie that I shall not talk about [a.k.a. 'Interstellar'] I will probably head over to where Zack is shooting his movie and just hang out a bit and see if we can come up with any ideas.
    The multi-Oscar-nominee Zimmer has produced many a memorable and/or iconic theme over the course of his career, though sometimes his film scores can be noticeably derivative of his previous work (arguably, his efforts on The Lone Ranger being a recent example); that he’s more conscious about the need to be innovative with his Batman vs. Superman compositions, however, should only provide Zimmer with additional incentive to fashion something impressive, like (again, arguably) he managed with his Man of Steel score:

    That’s my problem, that’s my dilemma. I don’t want to betray, if that’s the right word, the Dark Knight movies. That was Christian [Bale], it was Christian’s role.

    It’s not just that it was nine years of our lives, so you want to stay honest and honourable to that period. So it’s really about, ‘Is there something else I can find that I haven’t tapped into?’ Which I don’t know until I sit down with Zack.
    Man of Steel, in part through Zimmer’s drum-tastic score, established the feel and vibe of Snyder’s take on DC’s comic book legends, so that will help provide a perimeter for the sandbox in which the composer and director play on the followup. Then again, with Batman vs. Superman being in a good position to open the floodgates for future DC films (see: Justice League), maybe that’ll encourage Zimmer and Synder to work outside the box on this particular comic book movie blockbuster – much like Zimmer apparently has on his latest superhero project Amazing Spider-Man 2, which he worked on alongside Pharrell Williams.
    http://screenrant.com/batman-vs-supe...r-hans-zimmer/
    http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/new...oBv6kHZfKE4F5G

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    So, I'll admit that I haven't been keeping up with this movie/thread, but I saw this and thought it was relevant/awesome.
    It's official: 'Batman vs. Superman' and 'Captain America 3' opening the same day
    http://www.hitfix.com/news/it-is-off...man-and-batman
    http://www.businessinsider.com/batma...ad-idea-2014-4
    http://variety.com/2014/film/news/ca...16-1201153550/
    http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/new...ease-date.html

    Movie studio chicken, okgo!

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    Marvel can probably make a movie about Squirrel Girl at this point and put it on the same opening day as Wonder Woman.

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    Marvel could seriously do a movie about Gwen Stacy's dad and it'll outsell Wonder Woman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Abandon View Post
    Marvel could seriously do a movie about Gwen Stacy's dad and it'll outsell Wonder Woman.
    From Spiderman 3.

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    From Spiderman 3.
    2 hours of knee socks. Well worth the admission price.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Abandon View Post
    Marvel could seriously do a movie about Gwen Stacy's dad and it'll outsell Wonder Woman.
    Wonder Woman wouldn't be too bad if they based it off the new 52 comics where you find out that her original birth story (born of clay) was a lie to protect her from the truth that Zeus is her biological father. You could have a whole story about Hera going after Zeus's illegitimate children. Not that great but probably better than what they had planned over on NBC for their series.

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    bondage wonder woman, best wonder woman.

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    Not related at all, but something awesome for Batman's 75th:
    https://movies.yahoo.com/video/batma...192211473.html

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    Just saw man of steel ugh loved the actor but hated the movie. Zach Snyder is the worse. Wish they would have had a different screen writer.

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    meh, i liked the movie. only thing i disliked was that he screamed everytime he performed a feat of strength

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    Goyer is an awful screenwriter. He claims to be comic book fan but he shit all over the Superman so fuck him. What's even worse he has tons of other projects coming out including Constantine tv show

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    I just don't get the hate. I'm grateful for a comic movie not needing humor every five seconds. I loved it completely. The damage was extreme and I hope they go into it in the next movie. I hope that's what draws the other superheroes to him. He has immeasurable power and he fought a dozen or so kryptonians.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hatedregret View Post
    I just don't get the hate. I'm grateful for a comic movie not needing humor every five seconds. I loved it completely. The damage was extreme and I hope they go into it in the next movie. I hope that's what draws the other superheros to him. He has immeasurable power and he fought a dozen or so kryptonians.
    This is sort of how I feel about it, but what can the others do against him? Bow? Be laughed at?

    My biggest issue is that they're trying to jump on the Avengers bandwagon by introducing everybody in one movie and it just doesn't work like that. They should just start logically (Batman) and work their way through the cast.

    That is why this movie is going to fail. It basically went from Superman: Batman Arrives to Superman (and the other people from the Justice League).

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    i really enjoyed the new superman. i don't get the hate, either.

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    I really like the actor that played him and fights were really cool. They did not think about the big picture with it. The back story of Krypton got butchered so hard and it's something that could been used to their great advantage in developing a franchise alone. That whole aspect is just completely retarded. Most of all they failed to make Superman human. They made it seemed like he got bullied all those years than he sides with humans. Why the fuck would he? All they showed is him getting beat up and Jonathan dying cuz of them.

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    The new superman was terrible. Besides the obvious plot holes, shit was emo corny garbage just for the sake of it. I don't blame any screenwriter, director, actor for this. Superman is just a terrible character. Dude is the equivalent of a 4 year old making the rules up as they go along, "nu uh i got uhhh um teh blue sun from west bubblefuck that makes me stronger!"

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    Superman absolutely works when he's well written. However, the number of writers who have actually done the character justice in the last twenty or so years could really be counted on one hand. The rest of it is just supes being supes.

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    Pretty sure I've said it before, but I feel the utter carnage portrayed in MoS is going to make it a hell of a hard sell for Batman to even stand a chance without superduperpowersuits and gratuitous kryptonite use. And to be blunt, I don't watch Batman stuff for mecha.

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    The bullying was showing his character. He learned to be a good man from his father. He was told that he would lead the world as a beacon of hope or a harbinger of fear.

    I don't have a clue why they handled Krypton the way they did, but that's my only real complaint. I wish this was just a sequel and not a Justice League tie in. They're already behind because of Nolanverse Batman making all superpowers unlikely at best and I guess they aren't willing to lay foundation for him, Flash, WW, etc. I'm hoping the Flash tv show is amazing so they see he is capable of a solo movie.

    If they would just make the animated movies into live action I'd be sold ; ;