Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I te Pipiri 2013, i kii a Warner Bros. ko te kaiwhakahaere a Zack Snyder me te kaituhi a David S. Goyer ka hoki mai mo te Man of Steel sequel, me te whare wananga e whakaaro ana ki te tuku mo te kiriata i te tau 2015. I te marama e whai ake nei, i whakapumautia e Snyder i San Diego Comic-Con International ko te whakahoutanga o te Man of Steel ka whakaatu i te hui a Superman me Batman mo te wa tuatahi i runga i te kiriata. Ko Goyer raua ko Snyder te kaituhi o te korero, me Goyer te kaituhi o te tuhinga ahakoa i kii ia i te tau 2006 he 'Batman Vs. Ko te kiriata a Superman "ko te wahi e haere ana koe i te wa e whakaae ana koe ki a koe kua pau katoa nga mea ka taea... he whakaaetanga kua pau tenei raihana i tana manawa whakamutunga", me Christopher Nolan i uru ki te mahi tohutohu hei kaiwhakanao whakahaere. E ai ki a Snyder, ka whai mana te kiriata mai i te pakiwaitara The Dark Knight Returns. I te Whiringa-a-rangi 2013, i whakamarama a Snyder kaore tana kiriata e hangai ki te pukapuka whakairoiro i whakahuatia i runga ake nei. "Mēnā e hiahia ana koe ki te mahi i tērā, ka hiahia koe ki tētahi Superman kē. Ka kawea e mātou a Pāpā ki roto i te ao e noho nei a Pāpā". Ko Batman v Superman te putanga tuatahi o Wonder Woman i roto i te kiriata whakaari, kiriata whakaari, i hangaia e Warner Bros. mai i te tau 1996. I te Tihema 2013, i utua a Chris Terrio ki te tuhi ano i te tuhinga, na te mea i whakapau kaha a Goyer ki etahi atu kaupapa. I te korero ano mo nga awe, i whakaatuhia e Terrio i roto i tetahi tuhinga i whakaputaina e The Wall Street Journal ko te kiriata ka whai mana mai i te toru o Nolan's Batman, te tuhinga a te Itari a Umberto Eco o te 1972 "The Myth of Superman", me te W.H. Ko te waiata a Auden "Musée des Beaux Arts" e whakataurite ana i nga taipitopito o ia ra o te oranga o nga taangata noa me nga pakanga nui o nga korero pakiwaitara. E ai ki a ia, "I roto i ngā kōrero o ngā toa toa, ko Batman te Pluto, te atua o te ao o raro, ko Superman te Apollo, te atua o te rangi. I tīmata tēnei ki te tino whakamīharo ki a au <unk> ehara i te mea nā te whakatikatika anake o rātau pakanga, engari nā rātau oranga ake". Ko te Joker me te Riddler i whakaarohia kia puta i roto i te kiriata, engari ko Snyder...  Pātai: He aha te tau i tīmata ai a Chris Terrio ki te tuhi anō i a Batman V. Superman?
Ko te tau 2013