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decided to focus on individual franchises but began to start building a shared universe to compete with Marvel Studios' Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2011. After a planned Justice League film was put on hold and the success of The Dark Knight in 2008, Warner Bros. had plans to bring various DC Comics superheroes together in films since 2002, when Wolfgang Petersen was set to direct a crossover of the Batman and Superman film franchises. The DCEU, much like the original DC Universe in comic books, was established by crossing over common plot elements, settings, cast, and characters. The franchise also includes comic books, short films, novels, and video games.
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In spite of his powers as a sinister genius, Brainiac has never successfully plotted his way onto a movie.The DC Extended Universe ( DCEU) is an American media franchise and shared universe centered on a series of superhero films based on characters that appeared in American comic books by DC Comics, produced by DC Films and distributed by Warner Bros.
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Disgraced director Bryan Singer hoped to use Brainiac in his own sequel, Superman: The Man of Steel, a follow-up to his 2006 film Superman Returns, but that movie was canceled too.Īnd now, we know Snyder maybe would have brought Brainiac to the big screen, but that too wasn’t meant to be. He was also going to be the villain in the aborted Superman Lives in the 1990s, which would have starred Nicholas Cage as Superman.
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Brainiac’s big thing is “collecting” entire cities, like the Kryptonian capital of Kandor, by shrinking them and keeping them for his own.ĭespite his long history in DC media, including animated films, video games (recently as a playable character and final boss in Injustice 2), and TV shows like Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League, and the live-action Smallville and Krypton, Brainiac has never been in a live-action movie.īrainiac was almost the villain of Superman III in 1983, as writer Ilya Salkind wrote Brainiac as the antagonist in an early draft before he was cut. Created in 1958 by Otto Binder and Al Plastino, Brainiac is an alien cyborg who has long been one of Superman’s greatest foes.
Who is Brainiac? - Just because Brainiac isn’t appearing in a Man of Steel sequel doesn’t mean he’s never going to appear in a DC movie. By Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Jon Sibal, Brad Anderson, and Rob Leigh. I think you really have to look outside of the Earth for challenges for him because of how powerful he is.”īrainiac, in Action Comics #868. “I just think it’s best to give Superman these extraterrestrial challenges because I think you’ve got to be careful with. Snyder added that he felt alien antagonists were always best for a character like Superman, except for Lex Luthor. “That was a thing that was always out there that we talked about as a possible sequel.” And there was always a possibility for their return,” he said. “I do think that the Kryptonians that are in the Phantom Zone are probably still around.
Snyder doesn’t really elaborate, instead choosing to talk more about the rogue Kryptonians from the first (and only) Man of Steel. “We talked about a Brainiac movie,” Snyder said. When the podcast hosts asked Snyder which villains he would have introduced in a sequel to Man of Steel, Snyder mentioned one by name. What Happened? - On the May 10 episode of the podcast Post-Credit Podcast hosted by Brandon Katz and Eric Italiano, Zack Snyder was featured as a guest to promote his new zombie action movie Army of the Dead on Netflix. In a new interview, the filmmaker reveals one classic villain from Superman’s rogues gallery who would have featured in the sequel to Man of Steel. Still, that hasn’t stopped Snyder from talking about his superhero roads never traveled. and a new Superman movie in development with J.J.
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While it gave way to films like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016 and Justice League in 20, there has never been a full sequel to Man of Steel, and there very likely never will be, with Snyder done at DC and Warner Bros. It’s been eight years since Zack Snyder released Man of Steel.