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Originally Posted by blankall
Nolan's universe, which was both closed and grounded in reality, really wouldn't allow for a Superman. The studios made the right decision with limiting Nolan's work to 3 films, as the story had run it's course. Adding super-powered aliens to that mix would just be strange.
In order to combine Batman with any of the other Justice League members, you need a total re-imagining from what Nolan presented.
DC's choice moving forward was to do an individual Batman movie and then combine it with Superman, or just go straight for the combo. Given how recent the Nolan movies were, I 100% see why they made the decision they did.
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See, I don't think that's necessarily true. The only elements they are missing from the Nolan universe is the backstory with the Joker/Robin, which they are obviously using for Batman's motivation here.
However, that could be easily ret-conned to say that JGL's character became Robin and was killed at the hands of a recently escaped Joker. Now Batman has been pulled back after all thought he had died.
The 'realism' of Nolan's universe isn't a hindrance IMO. They tried to set Superman in the same realism. "How would the real world react to the arrival of Superman?" is the essential question of both Man of Steel and BvS. The transition of the universe to a more sci-fi setting happens in the continuity as Superman rises, and we can see how Nolan's Batman would react to such an extreme change.
I'm not saying it would be better or worse, just that they could have conceivably used the same arc to continue the story.