Ben Affleck Talks THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS' Influence On BATMAN v SUPERMAN
Ben Affleck (Gone Girl) talks here briefly about the Comic-Con footage and the influence that Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns has had on Zack Snyder's vision. Oh, and what happens when he's asked to do that Batman voice? You'll have to hit the jump to find out!
Thanks to the leaked Comic-Con footage from back in July, we already know that Frank Miller's criticaly acclaimed The Dark Knight Returns will heavily influence Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and in a new interview, star Ben Affleck has addressed the impact he believes that will have on not just this movie but each of the Caped Crusader's past big screen adventures.
"Yeah, I don't want to answer too many Batman questions because it is a Gone Girl thing, but I will say that I think Zack [Snyder] was heavily influenced by that," Affleck tells MTV News in the video interview above. "I think everyone's heavily influenced by that...that's the seminal work. So, I don't think that there's any of these which have been made that haven't drawn from that book because it's so good. So, you know, I think if you're smart you steal from the best. That's why I'm going to rip David [Fincher] off from now on everywhere I go!" When he was asked to show off a little of his Batman voice for the movie, the actor adopted a slightly lower tone before correcting himself and jokingly saying: "Ah, you've gotta pay...that's IMAX money to see that!"
Starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Laurence Fishburne, Diane Lane, Jesse Eisenberg, and Jeremy Irons, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice is set to be released on March 25th, 2016.
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