Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice director Zack Snyder has been sharing black-and-white photos from his time in The DCEU to his recently-created Instagram account, and has now posted a never-before-seen shot of Ben Affleck as the Dark Knight.<\/p>\n
According to Snyder’s caption, this was from Affleck’s BvS costume test, and his first time putting on the Bat-suit. “Everything I hoped it would be,” the filmmaker adds.<\/p>\n
For many fans, this suit remains the best interpretation of the Caped Crusader’s iconic costume we have seen in live-action.<\/p>\n
Should we read anything into Snyder sharing these photos? The #RestoreTheSnyderVerse faithful remain hopeful that the filmmaker\u00a0will step\u00a0behind the camera for another DC Comics-based film at some point, but we can’t imagine there’s much more to this than\u00a0Snyder sharing some of his favorite work to his new Instagram account (though we’re sure he’s aware of the attention the pics have been getting).<\/p>\n
James Gunn and Zack Snyder have been in contact since the news that the DCEU was being rebooted as the DCU was announced, but the chances of the latter returning to the fold seem pretty slim. Still, the fact that Gunn and DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran will continue to develop Elseworlds projects means we can’t completely rule anything out.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, I\u2019m a pretty open book. I really feel like, you know, if the characters are treated with reverence, and mythologically correct, then I\u2019m down. I\u2019m in,\u201d Snyder said when asked about the DCU relaunch last year. \u201cLet\u2019s see what happens. I\u2019m pretty excited. I mean, we\u2019re going to get Superman pretty soon, so we\u2019ll see what that\u2019s like.\u201d <\/p>\n
When asked on Threads if he’d seen Snyder’s comments about being “excited for the DCU,” Gunn responded: \u201cI didn\u2019t, but I knew it already because he\u2019s texted me. He\u2019s been incredibly supportive throughout this process.”<\/p>\n
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“I had a really good time. I loved doing the Batman movie. I loved Batman v Superman,” Affleck said during a recent interview when asked about his experience playing Batman. “And I liked my brief stints on The Flash that I did and when I got to work with Viola Davis on Suicide Squad for a day or two.” “In terms of creatively, I really think that I like the idea and the ambition that I had for it, which was of the sort of older, broken, damaged Bruce Wayne. And it was something we really went for in the first movie. What happened was it started to skew too old for a big part of the audience. Like even my own son at the time was too scared to watch the movie. And so when I saw that I was like, ‘Oh shit, we have a problem.'”<\/p>\n
“Then I think that\u2019s when you had a filmmaker that wanted to continue down that road and a studio that wanted to recapture all the younger audience at cross purposes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice director Zack Snyder has been sharing black-and-white photos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,136880,136879],"class_list":{"0":"post-251356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-this-time-from-his-first-time-in-the-suit-during-his-costume-test-for-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice","11":"tag-zack-snyder-has-taken-to-instagram-again-to-share-another-black-and-white-shot-of-ben-affleck"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}