Thursday, March 13, 2014

Movie Showdown: Man Of Steel/Bats VS Captain America

THR reports Marvel's "Captain America 3" will face rival DC Entertainment's Superman/Batman team-up Man of Steel Sequel head on.


Until now, the identity of the Marvel film slotted to open on May 6, 2016, has been kept secret; The company claimed the date first prior to Warner Bros moving the next Supes flick for the same weekend.

The release of MOS 2 was delayed a full 10 months for a number of reasons. As a result, the original release date of July 17th 2015 is no longer doable. Thus, the studio picked the May 6th 2016 date--forcing the showdown. They quickly inserted the fantasy Pan into that original slot.

 "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" helmers Joe Russo and Anthony Russo set to return to their post for part 3 using a script by screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.

 MOS 2 will see the return of Henry Cavill as Superman/Clark Kent, Affleck will play Bruce Wayne/Batman amid lots of fallout--while Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne and Diane Lane are set to reprise their roles as Lois Lane, Perry White and Martha Kent. "Fast Five" star Gal Gadot's playing Wonder Woman

"Man Of Steel" writer David S. Goyer was back on the keyboard but now--THR reports that  Chris Terrio, who won an Oscar for writing Affleck's “Argo,” has been hired to write the latest draft of the MOS 2 script for director Zack Snyder.

Goyer is in the midst of developing several projects including an adaptation of author Neil Gaiman's  popular comic book series Sandman, which he’ll produce with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Shooting schedules and post-production could always impact the plan. Also, Marvel has a second untitled movie scheduled to open that summer on July 8, so there is "wiggle room".

Of course all of the ballyhoo will likely be for nothing...Veteran box office observers doubt that the two films will ultimately open opposite each other. As fun as the showdown would be...Somebody will blink

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