Debating ‘Dawn of Justice’ and the Future of the DC Movie Universe

This year’s Comic Con marked one year since the announcement of Batman vs. Superman. Since then, they’ve given it a surname (Dawn of Justice), casted Batman (Ben Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Cyborg (Ray Fisher), Alfred Pennyworth (Jeremy Irons), Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) and possibly Aquaman (rumored to be Jason Momoa). There have also been rumors galore concerning the script, controversy from one of it’s writers, David S. Goyer and just a lot of noise, period. Oz Longworth and William Evans both have strong opinions on these things, so as you can imagine, it was probably time for them to talk it out. William: We’ve had a year of Batman vs Superman news now and my optimism that things are going to get better is looking like Miss Sealy when she was sharpening the straight razor. Between the script rumor of the Amazons actually being ancient Kryptonians (that had to be publicly dispelled), the aspect of Affleck playing with the kiddies when it comes to casting, trying to arrange the cameo of every Justice League member or just everything possible with Gal Gadot including a jeans twerking video and controversial Facebook posts, I just don’t know how this doesn’t look like the Hindenburg. So please Oz, our DC man on the ground, tell me why I should still look forward to the now aptly titled Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice. Oz: Honestly, I’d mostly been in the “neutral” gear about this for quite some time. I didn’t lose my shit about Ben Affleck taking over the Bat-m…