Is Superman being shortchanged by the DC movie universe?

Superman will appear at least three times in movies in the next five years.

But will any of them be a standalone Man Of Steel adventure?

A further, potentially important casting rumour forBatman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justicelanded over the weekend.

Its already well known that Ben Affleck as Batman and Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman are on board.

Thats on top of the characters returning fromMan Of Steel.

Warner Bros is gambling hard on this one, for a multitude of well known reasons.

Well firstly, its effectively a reboot ofBatman, the studios prized comic book movie asset.

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The Reboots

Warner Bros has twice gambled hard on resurrecting theSupermanmovie series.

In 2006, it had lured Bryan Singer away fromX-Men: The Last Standto instead directSuperman Returns.

For some time, Warner Bros puzzled over what to do next.

But he did not.

That, and whether its true to Superman or not.

A sequel was duly ordered, and Snyder was confirmed to return.

But then the plan seemed to alter.

That makes sense to a degree, given that the character of Superman has already been re-introduced.

The novelty lies elsewhere this time.

But still: just how much Superman are we going to get?

But is there going to be space to explore Clark now?

To tell the smaller, arguably more important story there?

About the problems of leading a double life?

And what about the rich, deep history of Superman comic stories that dont have any DC character crossover?

Is there room for those in the DC movie universe?

The Christopher NolanDark Knightfilms occasionally referenced and crossed over characters, of course.

Or were content to give some characters a little bit of space, but no more.

Yet the difference here is that Nolan seemed to have the choice.

Theyre coming from the board room too.

Is Superman the collateral damage of that strategy?

That said, Im far from one of those whove written offBatman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice.

And that, furthermore, Warner Bros affords space and time to explore Henry Cavills take on Superman/Clark Kent.

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