Scrapped Batman Vs Superman Movie Was Filled With Death

Before there was Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice there was Multiple other Attempts to make a DC Film crossover than never got off the ground, One infamous take was the Early 2000’s version that saw Batman played by  Colin Farrell take on Jude Law who was Superman, directed by Wolfgang Petersen. in a Recent interview with Collider we got a few more details.

“I wrote on this version of Batman v Superman around 2001or 2002 when Colin Farrell was cast as Batman and Jude Law was cast as Superman and Wolfgang Petersen was directing, We were in prep and it was the darkest thing you’ve ever seen," the writer said. "It started with Alfred’s funeral and Bruce has fallen in love and renounced being Batman, the Joker kills his wife, and then you discover it was all a lie. Just that the love itself was constructed by the Joker to break [Bruce]. It was a time where you would be able to get these sort of stories together in script form but they couldn’t quite land in the world. Somehow, the expectations of the object — whether they be audience or corporate or directorial — it wasn’t landing quite in the way I think we imagined when we put them on the page.”