Sounds like Affleck has had a hands-on approach to BvS and Batman. Apparently re-wrote the script multiple times while in costume.
And for the gritty fans, seems as though there will be a Blu-Ray release of the film that is rated R for violence. I have to admit, the final trailer has re-invigorated my optimism for this movie.
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“[Affleck] would go into wardrobe and get all suited up for the day in his Batman suit,” said the source. “Then he would sit around reworking the script. Ben wasn’t thrilled with it and would find himself on multiple occasions fixing it the day of.”
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Recently, it was reported that an “Ultimate Edition” Blu-ray of the film will be rated R for “sequences of violence.”
Here's what I want to see, an hour and 30 minutes of Super man absolutely kicking Batman's butt. I'm talking hitting him with the old freeze breath, and then shattering him with the heat vision. The donkey punch from hell. Followed by a 10 km running start field goal kick to Batman's jubblies. Then punching him into orbit and piledriving Bats through the first 3 layers of the planet.
Then he fly's batman into space, says a clever quip and tosses him into the sun.
Then he spends 10 minutes bragging about killing batman and then spends 30 minutes telling Wonder Woman to give him some suger while making out with her.
Then we can move onto a real relevant fight like Superman versus Aquaman. Or Superman versus a jar of kryptonite sealed pickles.
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Sounds like Affleck has had a hands-on approach to BvS and Batman. Apparently re-wrote the script multiple times while in costume.
And for the gritty fans, seems as though there will be a Blu-Ray release of the film that is rated R for violence. I have to admit, the final trailer has re-invigorated my optimism for this movie.
I have a lot of faith in Ben Affleck after his last few films, but rewriting the script in costume on the day of shooting doesnt inspire a ton of confidence.
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I have a lot of faith in Ben Affleck after his last few films, but rewriting the script in costume on the day of shooting doesnt inspire a ton of confidence.
I think it alludes more to altering the way he speaks than changing key things in the moment.
If you see Ford's script from A New Hope, it's covered in edits. Just about getting the character right.
Affleck was on Kimmel after the Oscars. Here's a clip of a "deleted scene" featuring Kimmel. Recommend watching the whole thing. I found it pretty funny.
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Latest word on advance ticket sales for Warner Bros’ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justiceper various sources is that they’re outstripping 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool (opening weekend $132.4M), The Avengers ($207.4M) and Universal’s Furious 7 ($147.1M) two weeks prior to their stateside releases. One non-Warner Bros analyst has the figure between $20M-$25M, which isn’t that far from where The Dark Knight Rises’ advance ticket sales were before it debuted to $160.9M.
They put a leaks forum up on reddit now in light of some recent major spoilers coming to light, so this is a good time to start going dark in regards to internet searching about the film.
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That's funny because I was just talking to a coworker about how no one we know is excited. Like nobody. Even this thread hadn't been bumped in two weeks. Just my anecdotal observation.
Also interesting that the article says it is outpacing the Avengers pre-sales but then says they only expect it to make $140M which would put it $60M behind Avengers and lower than even Deadpool.
I'd guess the marketplace has changed in the last 5 years or whatever since the Avengers. I don't remember pre-sales being as big a deal 5 years ago. I'm not even sure if there were reserved seats back then.
The thing that is different about this is that it has far, far more name recognition and mainstream appeal then pretty much any other comic book movie ever.
While comic book fans are burning out on being hyped, Joe movie-goer sees Batman AND Superman in one movie and gets hyped. Everyone knows them. So while the 'Internet hype' (which has historically been a poor indicator for success) isn't astronomical, the mainstream hype is just getting going, and will be huge.
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The thing that is different about this is that it has far, far more name recognition and mainstream appeal then pretty much any other comic book movie ever.
While comic book fans are burning out on being hyped, Joe movie-goer sees Batman AND Superman in one movie and gets hyped. Everyone knows them. So while the 'Internet hype' (which has historically been a poor indicator for success) isn't astronomical, the mainstream hype is just getting going, and will be huge.
I guess that depends on how that hype plays out. If it is supposedly more mainstream than the Avengers then surely it should easily best the $207M the Avengers made, no? It just seems weird to me that there is excitement for a $150M opening. That seems like the minimum it should do.
I don't know maybe I expect too much. I'd have to think not even beating Deadpool would be a massive disappointment for them, even if the worldwide numbers to prop up the box office.
I agree that it is external hype, I am a DC fanboi and I am kind of like 'meh', I will go see it opening weekend but I don't expect much nor am I really excited. I am wayyyyyy more excited for Civil War than this... I don't really think there is much argument about that? I fully expect Civil War to crush any previous Comic Book Movies numbers, should be in that 1.5 billion range at least.
I don't really know anyone excited about this either, but I generally just talk to comic book fans, so again I agree I think this appeals more to the casual comic book fans than the hard cores. I fully expect to be let down and hopefully they re tool the entire franchise after this film. Prove me wrong Zach!! The only hope I have is that the Argo writer penned this, and I really really enjoyed Argo.
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I guess that depends on how that hype plays out. If it is supposedly more mainstream than the Avengers then surely it should easily best the $207M the Avengers made, no? It just seems weird to me that there is excitement for a $150M opening. That seems like the minimum it should do.
I don't know maybe I expect too much. I'd have to think not even beating Deadpool would be a massive disappointment for them, even if the worldwide numbers to prop up the box office.
Maybe -- the article is worded a little strange, but the way I saw it was that, two weeks prior to release, it is out-pacing all those movies were at two weeks prior to their releasem and is at the level The Dark Knight Rises was at just before release. A lot can happen in those two weeks -- if it maintains or builds hype it could crush everything, but if it stops here it would probably end in the $130-140 million range.
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Really? they can't spoil it mush more than the trailer that was released a month or two back. What's left to spoil......................don't answer that. :P
That's funny because I was just talking to a coworker about how no one we know is excited. Like nobody. Even this thread hadn't been bumped in two weeks. Just my anecdotal observation.
Also interesting that the article says it is outpacing the Avengers pre-sales but then says they only expect it to make $140M which would put it $60M behind Avengers and lower than even Deadpool.
I'd guess the marketplace has changed in the last 5 years or whatever since the Avengers. I don't remember pre-sales being as big a deal 5 years ago. I'm not even sure if there were reserved seats back then.
Don't really see Avengers as a comparable for the film. The Avengers has the 3rd highest opening of all time, and when it opened it had the highest of all time. It was also building off several established franchises.
The last Superman film did 116 million opening. This was the previous movie in the franchise.
If BvS hits the $140M mark it'll be considered a success. At $160 million you hit the Dark Knight type levels of success, which is probably more what the studio is hoping for. In other words, just because BvS doesn't have the biggest opening of all time, they won't consider it a failure.
Don't really see Avengers as a comparable for the film. The Avengers has the 3rd highest opening of all time, and when it opened it had the highest of all time. It was also building off several established franchises.
The last Superman film did 116 million opening. This was the previous movie in the franchise.
If BvS hits the $140M mark it'll be considered a success. At $160 million you hit the Dark Knight type levels of success, which is probably more what the studio is hoping for. In other words, just because BvS doesn't have the biggest opening of all time, they won't consider it a failure.
Well if they are comparing pre-sales numbers to the Avengers then obviously someone thinks it is a comparable.
But I agree, I don't think it is comparable at all, but as mentioned above by OOTC this movie seems to have much more mainstream appeal. I find that comparison interesting since it can't be more mainstream than the Avengers if it isn't doing the business that Avengers did. Yet Avengers is referred both as not as mainstream and as having the groundwork so it is not fair to compare the two. There's a disconnect in the comparison somewhere. It can't be both.
