Take this with a grain of salt and there's no official confirmation yet (until announcement), but word on the grapevine's already spreading that two of
DC Comics' most important heroes and icons will be starring together in their own feature team-up film, and COULD be announced during the WB Panel at the
San Diego Comic Con.
In anticipation and build up for a shared
DC Movie Universe, it looks like
The Hollywood Reporter is picking up reports that the next big
DC film may be in fact a
Superman/ Batman film, where
Henry Cavill returns to the big screen as
Superman and teams up with a new actor playing
Batman. Zack Snyder of course is set to return as director after
Man Of Steel, with
David S. Goyer penning the screenplay.
Now this is all rumor and hear say at the moment, and the
Warner Bros. Panel at the
San Diego Comic Con is currently happening. However, given the impending nature of reintroducing Batman into a DC Movie Universe with Cavill's Man Of Steel, this makes perfect sense and is a good lead on to a potential
Justice League film. The idea was also teased back in 2007 with a "
Superman/ Batman" poster seen in a post-apocalyptic Times Square on
Will Smith's "
I Am Legend", so the "
World's Finest" teaming together on their own flick isn't exactly a new idea. In fact, before the Superman reboot that is MoS happened, this was the plan. It would be a wise move by
WB and
DC Entertainment too, since it introduces A NEW Batman outside of
Christopher Nolan's epic
Dark Knight Trilogy of films, and sets the stage for the inevitable rise of a JL film. There's also the rumor of a
Flash film for 2016, then JL on 2017 (via
Bleeding Cool). Still, let's wait for official confirmation from the SDCC.
