Batman director Zack Snyder has gone HAM on a bunch of fans who criticised his character for being a violent iteration of a classic superhero.
The director addressed those who are perhaps a little too critical over Batman killing a whole bunch of people in the 2016 film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, as he labelled them living ‘in a dream world’.
Guess he wants to portray what’s going on in the world in his movies? A bold move for a comic character. But, evidently, Zack marches to the beat of his own drum.
Chilling at the Watchmen Q&A earlier this week, he began in the clip, since uploaded to Reddit: ‘Someone says to me: [Ben Affleck’s] Batman killed a guy. I’m like, “F*ck, really? Wake the f*ck up”.’
He wasn’t done, though. Oh, may we add this was during a three-day charity event.
‘Once you’ve lost your virginity to this f*cking movie and then you come and say to me something about like “My superhero wouldn’t do that.” I’m like “Are you serious?”’ he said, as people cheered and laughed. ‘I’m like down the f*cking road on that.
‘I’m 100% fine with it. It’s a cool point of view to be like “My heroes are still innocent. My heroes didn’t f*cking, you know, lie to America. My heroes didn’t embezzle money from their corporations. My heroes didn’t f*cking commit any atrocities.” That’s cool. But you’re living in a f*cking dream world.’
Okay, mate, we get it.
He has zero chill at the fact people take umbrage with Batman’s apparent 21 kill count, which went against Batman’s traditional ‘don’t-even-kill-the-bad-guys’ mentality, but obviously the fans themselves had some thoughts about Zack’s musings.
One wrote: ‘Zack Snyder: “That’s cool. But you’re living in a fucking dream world.”
‘People Who Need Superhero Stories: “That’s the whole idea, guy.”’
Another compared Batman to Superman and started a whole new war: ‘Zack Snyder talks a big game but not ONCE in any of his films did Superman punch someone into the sun.’
Not wrong.
A little more critical, one chimed in: ‘I wish Zack Snyder would have woke the f*ck up and realised you can’t just alter everything Batman stands for and think people will be happy.’
While another felt the move was what ‘broke’ DCEU’s back, as they wrote on Twitter: ‘Batman intentionally going out at night to commit murder makes him just as bad as the psychos he fights.
‘This change that Zack Snyder introduced was the first straw that ended up breaking the DCEU’s back.’
Look, it wasn’t all controversy and hell though, as another tried to reason the situation by adding: ‘I think you either get camp Batman or accept that Gritty Realism Batman has probably broken a neck or two.’
So, look, Batfleck may have been ‘brutal’ by some account, but welcome to the world, right.
Okay, we’ll get back in our box now.
Got a showbiz story?
If you’ve got a story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk Entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we’d love to hear from you.
MORE: Gotham season 5 Batman’s suit ‘leaked’ on social media ahead of final series
MORE: Armie Hammer is in ‘final talks’ to take over from Ben Affleck and become The Batman
