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[HEATHEN]

Sum of all fears trash tho.

 

[kingkoopa]

*takes deep breath*

 

[HEATHEN]

*takes deep breath*

You mad b? Sad b?


You should make a film called....

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

Sum of All Tears.

 

[rfx45]

Flash makes a cameo in BvS. There might be spoiler-ish in the interview so be warned.

Earlier today, at the CCXP - Comic Con Experience 2015, Michael Wilkinson, who designed the costumes for Warner Bros.' Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice, spoke at length about creating the costumes for DC's iconic Trinity - Superman, Batman, & Wonder Woman. In his chat with Omelete, he dropped a handful of very interesting details about the upcoming Zack Snyder-directed film.



Omelete: What are you planning for the Justice League?

Michael Wilkinson: Well, I just started preparation on the Justice League. So, we're shooting the film in London. I'm going to be there for a year. Six months of prepping, six months of shooting. And we have all sorts of fantastic actors that we're bringing to London, all sorts of interesting universes. We're looking forward to doing a whole new Justice League for the 21st century.

Omelete: Aquaman, different from the comics? Where did you get the idea?

MW: My inspiration for Aquaman is actually Jason Momoa, he was born to play Aquaman. And so, he has some fantastic tattoos of his own. And got my mind thinking about how to go in a really interesting new direction for the scales that we usually see on Aquaman, so we decided to do them with tattoos and with some cool armor. So, we had this whole plan for Aquaman in this universe and so we look forward to the next few years evolving this exciting DC universe.

Omelete: What about Batman? The batsuit, the bat armor? What were you thinking when you were making those costumes? What was the process?

MW: When I was talking to the director Zack Snyder, he really wanted to go back to how it's being shown in the comic books cause when you think about Batman in the last twenty years from the films, it's sort of really stepped away from the really simple, powerful, intimidating silhouette of Batman in the graphic novels, and so, we wanted to return to that and we wanted to do a Batman that's a little bit older, he's been fighting crime for twenty years on the big bad streets of Gotham and so his costume is shredded and it's ripped and it's torn. It's distressed, it's got bullet holes in it. We wanted to say, 'this Batman doesn't really need gadgets or armor,' his intimidating strength is his real power. Incredible, burly silhouette is what really, and his incredible fighting skills of course, he doesn't need the armor and the gadgets so much.

Omelete: One of the ideas I like from the comics about The Flash's costume is just one red uniform and the bolt. There's a sense of movement in the ears and all that. How do you translate that to the screen and to make it modern and different?

MW: Well, I'm not really at the liberty to talk about The Flash right now, but it's something that you'll be seeing in the future in our films. You do get a glimpse of him, of course, in Batman v Superman. But I'm really looking forward to taking the amazing, iconic costume for The Flash and interpreting it in a fresh way where Ezra Miller is playing The Flash. He's an extraordinary performer, he has a sort of interesting sense of humor and the youth that will be great for Barry Allen and I think he's going to make a great Flash.

MW: "It's a different silhouette than the other ones and I think that's what makes the Justice League so amazing. They all are different, together they are super strong, but they all have their own different fighting styles, their own different look, their own different physique. The Flash is more like an Olympic marathon runner or something like that. He's shredded and he's not as bulky and as huge as a lot of the other guys in the League.

Omelete: What about Wonder Woman? What was the main challenge to make her character, the look of the character not too sexy, but that of a warrior?

MW: That was the most important thing for us. We wanted her strength, her power to be tangible. We wanted her to stand next to the two male counterparts and be very much their equal. So, she brings something very different to the table and she has this incredible power and strength and she also combines that with a grace and a compassion and a majesty that makes her special. It makes her incredibly powerful. And working with the beautiful Gal Gadot was an absolute pleasure. She's one person that's as beautiful on the inside as she's on the outside, so she made my job very easy.

Omelete: Is the Superman costume the same one from Man of Steel?

MW: It's a little bit different. The amazing thing about working on these big franchise films is that everytime you do another, you get to make the costumes even more compelling and more exciting. The one thing I love about my job is that we get to explore new costume technologies and new ways of making costumes. Two years later, there's new materials, new digital technologies. We use a lot of 3D printing and we scan our actors and we build costumes in the computer.

MW: So, with the Superman costume, we have a new material. The suit is a little bit more sheer, so you really get the sense of this metal undersuit coming through the blue oversuit and we have a new fabric for the cape. And, also, Zack wanted to include a Joseph Campbell quote in the suit, so there's a quote from Joseph Campbell: 'Where we thought to stand alone, we will be with all the world' and we decided to translate that into Kryptonian and we put it through the 'S' on his chest, through his cuffs, his belt, through his bicep, just to give a little extra something for the fan with very sharp vision to appreciate.

Omelete: What about Batman's cowl? Seems like the fabric allows more movement?

MW: That was something that was important to Zack. He wanted something that Ben could move in, something he could do all his amazing fight moves in. The choreography was extremely complex like all Zack Snyder stunt sequences. We wanted to have a Batsuit that he could look over his shoulder and do all of these moves. That was very important to us. There's a lot of engineering in the cowl of the Batsuit. We did many, many prototypes with different materials, different shapes. We really wanted the sense that we have the musculature of Ben sorting of coming through the cowl, so we didn't know where the cowl finished and the actor started, so it was really a part of him. And so we found a great material to do that with. The movement was great and I think it was reasonably comfortable.

Omelete: What about the nightmare Batman? It's a different uniform than the Batman we are seeing here?

MW: "It is a different look. Zack had a great idea of this sort of nightmare-ish vision, almost a vision of the future, a post-apocalyptic vision. It's like a dream that Ben has, so we wanted to, it has almost a Mad Max quality to it where it's like the end of the world, trying to survive and then of course Superman and his minions come, so it's sort of a way of representing the amazing amounts of, the sort of obsessive quality that Bruce Wayne has about the threat of Superman. In this film, Superman, of course he's normally seen as a figure of hope, a positive thing, but in this film, his motivations, the consequences of his actions are really being questioned by the world. Is he a savior? Or is he a dangerous alien with unknown intentions? And this becomes an obsession for Bruce Wayne. And he really wants to sort it out. So, it's manifested in this sort of incredible dream that Zack decided to create.

"This film takes place about 8 months after Man Of Steel. This cataclysmic event at the end of Man of Steel. And now we're in a world where the consequences of that event are being processed. Many people were killed in that event and a lot of people see Superman as being responsible for those deaths. And that's something we deal with in this film. It's the nature of power, the responsibility that comes with having this incredible superpowers. It's a film that's not only an amazing summer blockbuster with incredible action scenes, but it's also about ideas and I think that's what's going to make it such an appealing film for people.

 

[Cashflow]

Why not just put that all in a Spoiler? Not to mention the article is unreasonably long.

 

[everysingletime]

That's unreasonably long to you? I'd gobble that article up if it had been a marvel article lol

 

[Cashflow]

Not as reading material but as a post

 

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[KingdomFlatbush]

Based on that interview I'm incredibly interested in Battfleck's fighting style. It seems the focus with regards to this Batman is the physicality and intimidating presence of the character as opposed to the gadgets and armor. Which is OK with me. I want nimble kung fu acrobat Batman and not stiff as **** Bale Batman

 

[tay1]

Can we all agree that Afflecks chin was born to be in that mask. The chin should have its own seperate contract.

 

[everysingletime]

We shall see how worthy Affleck's chin is in 3 months.

 

[Master Zik]

I still don't understand why they got Gal as WW.

Should I be checking out her previous roles?

There are none. Unless you want to watch a few Fast & Furious movies and forget she was even in them. She was in nothing but bit roles before that.

I'm convinced she gives great head or her agent does.

 

[ghenges]

Sturdy chin..

 

[KingdomFlatbush]

There are none. Unless you want to watch a few Fast & Furious movies and forget she was even in them. She was in nothing but bit roles before that.

I'm convinced she gives great head or her agent does.

Ain't nobody gonna be checking for WW solo flick or no

Let's hope the wigs at Disney don't make the same mistake with Captain Marvel

 

[Master Zik]

Ben is far from a good actor. You don't have to be a great actor to be in a popcorn movie but like I said, historically the guys who have played Batman before won Academy awards for acting.

Theres only one man who won an academy award before he donned the cape. Guess who?

My dude clooney wasnt getting no awards for facts of life, return of the killer tomatos, or horror high

Ben got that for the movie (or writing depending on which you're talking about) not for acting.

Straight up blurring lines.

I have a feeling this will end up being a stupid action movie but the actor behind and the character of batman will not be the reason it's not that great of a movie 

Yeah, I think we're all really waiting for the Batfleck directed solo Batman film.

Basically.

I'll be in theaters opening night for the solo movie.

Anything bad about Batffleck in this movie dialogue or even acting wise I'm blaming on Snyder and the writers cuz I know for a fact a Ben Affleck co-written Batman movie will be really good.

 good, not @Master Zik
 bad   

I haven't even gone in with Ben is a bad actor talk. I just think it's clear that he is what he is at this point. More movie star than talented actor. He's a known name more than your eyes light up in anticipation when you hear his name paired with a great director.

Also Christian Bale is a vastly superior actor to Ben Affleck in every shape and form. The subtleness to his acting alone is praiseworthy. Bale's problem is he likes to do these epic/action movies and he picks terrible ones (that Egypt movie, Terminator (granted he probably thought that was a sure thing), etc.)

 

[slighted]

 

There are none. Unless you want to watch a few Fast & Furious movies and forget she was even in them. She was in nothing but bit roles before that.

I'm convinced she gives great head or her agent does.

Ain't nobody gonna be checking for WW solo flick or no

Let's hope the wigs at Disney don't make the same mistake with Captain Marvel

You don't think a superhero female-led movie will work?

 

[Master Zik]

Why not just put that all in a Spoiler? Not to mention the article is unreasonably long.

I only gave it a look to read about Flash showing up in the movie but couldn't even find that given the length

Stopped caring.

There are none. Unless you want to watch a few Fast

Ain't nobody gonna be checking for WW solo flick or no

Let's hope the wigs at Disney don't make the same mistake with Captain Marvel

To me that's all that's really interesting that's left as far as announcements. Marvel gotta get it right on her casting.

I won't lie the WW2 setting sounds interesting for WW but Gadot as the lead got me like blah. I don't even remember who is directing it.

 

[KingdomFlatbush]

 
You don't think a superhero female-led movie will work?

It won't work with an actress nobody has heard of and who lacks any sort of credentials with which to validate as massive a role as Wonder Woman

But we'll see. The period piece setting alone is very interesting

 

[ksteezy]

Charlize Theron as Cpt Marvel or bust, there is not a single actress with as much screen presence to hold a film on her own as her....only other would be Jolie....not only that but Charlize with long hair could fit the look easily.

She outshined Tom Hardy in his own film....she's too dope, Disney would drop the ball not locking her in.

 

[shogun]

I'll be watching because Gal is bae.

 

[sea manup]

pick the best talent for the role, not the biggest star

the marvel brand name sells itself 

 

[KingdomFlatbush]

Charlize Theron as Cpt Marvel or bust, there is not a single actress with as much screen presence to hold a film on her own as her....only other would be Jolie....not only that but Charlize with long hair could fit the look easily.

She outshined Tom Hardy in his own film....she's too dope, Disney would drop the ball not locking her in.

I don't care who they cast as long as it's an established and reliable talent...and for the love of God put some damn muscle mass on these female superheroes

 

[slighted]

 

 
You don't think a superhero female-led movie will work?

It won't work with an actress nobody has heard of and who lacks any sort of credentials with which to validate as massive a role as Wonder Woman

But we'll see. The period piece setting alone is very interesting

Agreed, I won't be surprised if this WW film is a bust. I hope Chris Pine got a multi-movie deal out of this.

Charlize Theron as Cpt Marvel or bust, there is not a single actress with as much screen presence to hold a film on her own as her....only other would be Jolie....not only that but Charlize with long hair could fit the look easily.

She outshined Tom Hardy in his own film....she's too dope, Disney would drop the ball not locking her in.

A lot of people want her, but the studios are probably hesitant because she's already 40yo.

And then factor in multiple movies over the next 5+ years.

 

[ksteezy]

pick the best talent for the role, not the biggest star

the marvel brand name sells itself 

Is the first marvel female led in this new age of CBMs time to go all in.

 

[sea manup]

 

pick the best talent for the role, not the biggest star

the marvel brand name sells itself 

Is the first marvel female led in this new age of CBMs time to go all in.

going all in would mean putting out the best possible product

most times that's not going to be the biggest star on the market

force awakens is about to become the highest grossing movie of all time with a female lead that has never been in a movie before