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It’s Official: Warner Bros. Announce Batman-Superman Movie

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Warner Bros. ended their panel with a big surprise, or two. After Tom Cruise and company had shuffled away, out came Zack Snyder to take the chairman’s lectern.

“Some shit is gonna happen up here,” he said. And then it did. Snyder started by telling us that it’s official that there’s going to be another Superman movie… and then bringing out Harry Lennix, the actor from Man of Steel, to tell us that Batman is in it.

Lennix read from The Dark Knight Returns and that sealed it. And there it was, a logo on screen mixing the S shield and Batman logo.

And Hall H lost their minds. People were on their feet and screaming – literally screaming – and the girl next to me was in floods of tears.

Do note that the passage Lennix read was the following one, sugesting that Batman and Superman might not be the best of friends in the new movie:

I want you to remember, Clark… in all the years to come, in your most private moments, I want you to remember my hand at your throat. I want you to remember the one man who beat you…

LOOKS LIKE BATMAN/SUPERMAN MOVIE IS ALREADY BEING FILMED AND STARTING HERE IN LOCAL EAST L.A.

Check out Photos and Video from This Weekend’s BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN Filming
by Matt Goldberg

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Last week, we reported that while filming on Zack Snyder‘s Superman/Batman movie wouldn’t truly get underway until early 2014, they would be using East Los Angeles College’s Weingart Stadium to shoot a scene involving Gotham City University and Metropolis State University. They shot their scene this past weekend during halftime, and Collider reader Vahn Gharakhani was good enough to send us some photos and video he took. Gotham is the home team in this game, and my favorite part of the video is when someone in the stands shouts, “Metropolis sucks!” because that person really got into character.

Hit the jump to check out the photos, the videos, and some details you’re going to want to take with a grain of salt. The untitled Man of Steel sequel opens July 17, 2015.

Gal Gadot to Play Wonder Woman in BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN

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Ladies and gentlemen, we have our Wonder Woman. It’s been clear that Warner Bros. is ramping up its DC presence in the upcoming Man of Steel follow-up Batman vs. Superman, and rumors have swirled that Wonder Woman would be introduced in the film along with Ben Affleck’s Batman and a few other comics characters. A report surfaced last month that Olga Kurylenko (Oblivion), Elodie Yung (G.I. Joe: Retaliation), and Gal Gadot (Fast & Furious 6) were auditioning for the female lead in director Zack Snyder’s upcoming film, but the nature of the role was being kept under wraps. Well now not only do we know which actress won the role, but also that the identity of the character is indeed Wonder Woman. Hit the jump for more.

Warner Bros. announced today that Gal Gadot will be playing Wonder Woman in Batman vs. Superman. It’s unclear whether we’ll just see shades of the superhero character in the pic or if we’ll get to see plenty of Wonder Woman in action, but Zack Snyder had this to say about the casting:

“Wonder Woman is arguably one of the most powerful female characters of all time and a fan favorite in the DC Universe. Not only is Gal an amazing actress, but she also has that magical quality that makes her perfect for the role. We look forward to audiences discovering Gal in the first feature film incarnation of this beloved character.”

Gadot is an Israeli-born actress best known for her role as Gisele in the last three Fast & Furious films. This will be her first starring role in a feature film and is also no doubt the beginning of a series of appearances by Wonder Woman, likely in Justice League and a Wonder Woman franchise. WB has been trying to get the character off the ground for years, with plenty of feature film scripts developed and a failed TV pilot from David E. Kelley, but it’s nice to see that Wonder Woman will finally get her due in a feature film. Following the massive success of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Frozen, hopefully studios have learned that female-driven franchise films can be a very, very good thing.