The Batman Box Office Proves WB's Worst BvS and Justice League Mistakes
The Batman is one of the biggest post-pandemic box office hits despite its three-hour runtime and dark tone, proving one of Warner Bros.' biggest DCEU mistakes with Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League. Despite multiple attempts to course-correct their DC movie universe, it's now clear how counter-productive WB's filmmaking approach was.
After years of struggles with DC movies earning poor reviews and failing to meet box office expectations, Warner Bros. started to branch out from a single shared universe continuity with non-DCEU movies like Joker andThe Batman. While The Batman was originally supposed to be a Ben Affleck-directed solo movie, after Affleck decided to step away from the DCEU, Matt Reeves was hired as the new director and repurposed the movie into a new story in new continuity with Robert Pattinson as the World's Greatest Detective.
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In an attempt to improve reviews and box office, Warner Bros. had Zack Snyder cut 30 minutes from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and made even more drastic changes to drastically shorten and change the tone of Justice League (as well as David Ayers' Suicide Squad), but The Batman proves none of that was necessary. Both the Ultimate Cut (Zack Snyder's director's cut) of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Zack Snyder's Justice League are nearly universally considered superior to the versions released in theaters, particularly in the case of Zack Snyder's Justice League. Now, with The Batman receiving critical praise and making a big splash at the box office despite a similar tone and nearly three-hour runtime, it's especially clear those changes weren't necessary.
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