SDCC 2016: DCEU Directors Talk Solo Films
At the Warner Bros panel at SDCC, the directors behind Justice League, Wonder Woman, Flash, and the Batman solo film took stage to talk about what it was like to bring these films to life. Here were their responses:
Scott Snyder stated, “It’s amazing. I’ve been blessed with these amazing actors, I have an awesome Batman, down there — I have an awesome Wonder Woman, I have an awesome Superman. As the rest of the group comes along to join, they each have something amazing to give. It is fun, as a fan, to just stand there and see them all in their costumes. looking how you hope they’d look.”
“I am very excited to be a part of this,” Rick Famuyiwa, director of Flash, who is at his very first Comic-Con, said. “DC is the foundation of what we all know about comic books and heroes. They’ve had great storytellers, great illustrates, as a part of that tradition. To have my voice be a part of this is really exciting. To bring Flash to the screen in a new way is pretty exciting, as well.”
“I’ve brought a lot of movies to Comic-Con, but I’ve never been in Hall H before,” James Wan said. “Listen — fucking Aquaman! What can I say! He’s never been portrayed in the feature world before. The opportunity to explore this universe, bring a little bit of my horror element into this, the deep sea, but also the wondrous world of Atlantis.”
“Taking on something like this character, the only analogous thing in drama is like taking on a great play that’s been done many times before,” Affleck told the crowd. “It’s terrifying, but it’s inspiring, and it’s really, really exciting.” Affleck called Batman “one of the most fascinating characters created in contemporary American drama.”