Snyder tweeted: "Could be time to pull the tarp … Tomorrow?"
THIS, IN green-screen and heavy rubber, is the new entertainment-world order. Especially come summer.
Nearly daily now, we expect some announcement, some release or some photo, from the heart of the comics-industrial complex. And then we expect a superhero-content rival to steal a bit of that spotlight, if not the entire Bat-signal glow.
Holy axle grease: director Zack Snyder's snapshot of the new Batmobile from the as-yet-untitled Batman v Superman film. |
Not an afternoon can pass, though, before a filmmaker “at a rival studio” — in this case, Zack Snyder, aka director of Warner Bros./DC’s untitled-but-you-know-it-as “Batman vs. Superman” — tweets out a would-be snapshot (actually, polished and buffed within an inch of its life) of the quasi-controversial Ben Affleck debuting the newest Batsuit, with his eye-candy Batmobile idling with arched menace as backdrop. Snyder “releases” the image in black-and-white tones as artful as a Jim Lee page (with even a Leica camera plug sneaked in the tweet for good, sly, perhaps contractual measure).