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But then Batfleck wouldn't have happened.

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In the months leading up to MoS, I was fully expecting it to be a continuation of the same universe as the TDK trilogy.

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I don't think that would had worked well at all.

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Having Wayne take back the mantle feeling Superman as a threat makes sense, especially if Lucius or Blake died during the battle of Metropolis. I love Affleck as Batman, but after the bad taste Rises left me in I wouldn't have minded him having another go with a different director.

That being said, props to Bale turning down a ton of money.

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TDK was absolute garbage. TDKR was one of the worst illogical movies of all time.
Batman Begins was really good but The Dark Knight was average and The Dark Knight Return was utter illogical garbage. If Man Of Steel tied in with TDK, it would've been even more horrendous than it was.

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i actually agree with you to a certain extent - BB was great i thought that upon seeing it late one night summer 2005 and still consider it the best of TDK trilogy - was like a melding of the gothic/Burton with the realistic take of Nolans previous work (Memento/Insomnia). TDK in 2008 i was perplexed as everyone was raving about it and praising it to the hilt as a modern masterpiece (no doubt mostly due to Ledgers untimely end) but i was like 'is that it?' all the gothic stuff of BB was gone and it was basically 'Heat' with batman and joker (with some big plot conveniences). and TDKR took the stuff i didnt care for in TDK and went up to 11 (and MoS/BvS wernt too far away from TDK/TDKR)

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Goyer talks about this in a recent interview:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/david-s-goyer-interview-1234983774/

-Zack Snyder recently claimed that it wasn’t off the table to set Man of Steel in the Nolan-verse, which is tough to imagine. Was that ever discussed?

Not amongst us when I was doing Man of Steel, or among Nolan and myself. Chris always wanted to keep the Dark Knight films as a separate entity and [the studio] kept wanting, understandably, to pull him into a whole DC expanded universe. Chris obviously was a producer on Man of Steel, and it’s tempting to think they were linked, but they really weren’t. I mean, I’m sure one could retroactively do it.

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