Man of Steel screenwriter: Warner's problem is that it wants to run before it learns to walk

"Man of Steel" screenwriter David S. Goyer was recently interviewed by a podcast. When talking about DC movies, he said that Warner should have let Henry Cavill star in an independent Superman sequel first, instead of rushing to shoot "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" to create a movie universe and try to catch up with Marvel.

"I know Warner put a lot of pressure on us at the time. They wanted their own Marvel Cinematic Universe. I thought at the time, can I learn to walk first and then think about running, okay!"

"Another difficult thing at the time was the poor communication between the executives of Warner Bros. and DC. New executives would join Warner every 18 months. Every time there was a change of leadership, we creative people would be whipped. Every new executive said, we want to do bigger!"

"I remember someone in charge of Warner Bros. announced a plan to release 20 movies in the next 10 years, but we hadn't written a single script yet." Goyer continued in amazement, "Many buildings were built in the air, which was crazy... This is not the way to build a house."

David S. Goyer worked closely with Christopher Nolan on the Dark Knight trilogy, and the two conceived a Superman film that would become Zack Snyder's masterpiece, Man of Steel. Goyer served as the screenwriter for Man of Steel, but Cavill never got the chance to star in another standalone Superman film, with the remainder of his time in the crimson cape being spent on attempted universe-building efforts like Batman v Superman and Justice League.

Before the Batman and Superman movies got underway, Goyer wrote three Blade movies starring Wesley Snipes, and he even directed the third one, Blade 3.

He revealed that the first "Blade" was originally a collaboration with David Fincher. "Finch had already completed "Alien 3" and might be preparing "Seven Deadly Sins". I worked with him on a rough draft of the script. I remember going to his office, where there was a huge conference table. David Fincher had 40 to 50 photography and art books with various bookmarks and sticky notes inside, and he said, 'This is the movie.'"

Goyer continued: “Finch took us through a two-hour process of going over the aesthetics of the set and the characters. It was such a fleshed-out visual pitch… I had never seen anything like it before, and the ideas inspired further revisions.”

In the end, Stephen Norrington took over "Blade" and David Fincher turned to shoot "Seven".