The Man of Steel writer weighs in on WB’s pursuit of an MCU rivalry and past collaborations.
I think he had done Alien 3 and maybe he was developing Se7en.
I developed a draft with him.
I remember going to our producers office…
There was this giant conference table.
Fincher laid out 40 to 50 books of photography and art with Post-It notes inside them.
He said, ‘This is the movie.'"
I had never seen something like that before.
A lot of that thinking infused my further revisions," Goyer said.
While Fincher wound up moving on to Se7en, Stephen Norrington ended up directing the first Blade film.
Mahershala Ali will star in the title role.
“I know the pressure we were getting from Warner Bros., which was, ‘We need our MCU!
We need our MCU!'”
“And I was like, let’s not run before we walk.”
He attributed some of the challenges to the constant turnover of executives at Warner Bros. and DC.
“Every 18 months someone new would come in.
We were just getting whiplash.
Every new person was like, ‘We’re going to go bigger!'”
“It was crazy how much architecture was being built on air…
This is not how you build a house.”
Instead, he was drawn into universe-building projects like Batman v Superman and Justice League.
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