lol this is stupid
1. alphabetical order, neither character needs to be above the other, its obviously no longer a superman movie, its a justice league beginnings movie, why does the title matter whatsoever seeing as that is the case? you want it to be man of steel 2 yet contain 4 or 5 other justice league members and basically be “superman & the justice league” lol cause thats just worse, its not mos2 accept it
2. the script was written with the intent of bale joining the cast, so they worked in the original story, why do you think the new batman is older and more withered? alot of superheros retire and go back to it, because he retired in bales movies dosnt mean thats where it ends, so we HAVE heard of and seen batman, just because he isnt mentioned in man of steel, he is seen in terms of the wayne logo and the call batman sign in the background, the wayne logo also is the exact one from bales movies, they would have revamped it if they didnt intend on using bales universe, so likelyhood is batman will come up at first as a legend, a myth, something only some people believe in, when an aliens ie superman lands on the planet, bruce is the first person to worry and start planning, same as he does in the comics and cartoons, he plans ahead, he tries to find weakness’s incase this all powerful being from another planet decides to basically enslave the human race because… he could if he wanted to, batman isnt trusting right away or even 100% ever, but you need to know your knowledge and background on these characters and the DC universe if you are going to judge it correctly
3. also loved that frank millers story so im with you on that, but i already expected as much from the beginning because its the only realistic fight between the two that dosnt feel silly and wasted like “why didnt superman just do this and kill him” kind of thing, not that he would kill him but you get my point. but now you have to consider something, as ive said about the bale universe, batman is older, more withered, but smarter, the fight between to two works still in terms of millers stories, batman dosnt need to be a major part of the justice league movies, for a few reasons, firstly batman spent alot of time at the watchtower, he is like the leading tactical expert they have, his justice league stories where always best when he did very little yet had the most impact, for instance mid fight he would just disapear, you would wonder wtf but then usually find he was off doing something that was much more important tactically and something that usually saved everyone, like when doomsday is going to destroy earth prime and batman just slips away to stop it, or when he arms all the bombs and tells doomsday to let them all leave with kara or he wont tell him the disarm code, doomsday cant kill him, has to let them go, over, thats the batman we will see, older but smarter, less fighting (because lets face it, seeing a human fight a human amongst supermhumans having a huge battle just feels insignificant, they may restart batman but im not so sure yet, as they then would have to distance themselves from bales movies and theyve already not dont that
4. wonder woman will just be her civilian self not wonder woman, lex will likely just be that, lex luther, not supermans arch rival, not yet, just a businessman, green lantern i reckon is a big no no, renolds movie was so bad, but theyre already considering a sequel, but i duno if it will be with him, maybe john stewart? as he fits in better i think with the justice league personally, plus we already know cyborg is gona be in the film, so i think were more likely to see his origins otherwise he wouldnt be cast as cyborg yet, just his footballing human self, keeping the surprise for longer
5. nolan hardly paved the way with the batman movies, i know everyone raves about them and i did like them, but they wernt groundbreaking or anything, it was basically die hard with a batman lol, and they would never have fitted into the universe they are building now unless it was like “a long time ago in a gotham far far away” thats another reason i think batman being old makes sense, its the only way to tie a more realistic movie franchise into a superpowered superhuman metahuman world they are moving into now
i think you need to relax, we comic fans can think of a million stories that would be amazing to follow and worry when they dont follow them, yet most marvel movies have done the same and veered off at times and still done amazingly well, have faith, dont get your hopes up, just wait for it and when it comes judge it then, DC need to not rush to catch up to marvel, and yes it could be their downfall, but i think theyre smarter than that after films like superman returns and green lantern, just look at the animated movies, almost all of them the past few years have been amazing, faultless.