Zack Snyder’s Man Of Steel was almost part of The Dark Knight-iverse

When Zack Snyder abruptly received the keys to the castle at D.C. following a series of box office disappointments, it felt like a weird pick. D.C. and Warner Bros. had such a seismic phenomenon in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy that, for many, the hiring was step down. It was strange to hand the Batmobile over to the guy coming off Watchmen and heading into Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole. But that’s what happened. Snyder’s first challenge was a Superman reboot that would hopefully instill the same gravitas and real-world heft that Nolan brought to Batman. Christopher Nolan would stay on as a producer and nabbed a story by credit, so many thought he would be, not so much steering the ship, but at the very least finessing it.

However, it was also clear that this would not exist within the same world as Nolan’s Batman movies. Even though Man Of Steel took on similar qualities, including a title that eschews the hero’s actual name and uses one of their many nicknames instead, the movie would be the start of something new. It wasn’t always that way it would appear.

Speaking with MTV’s Josh Horowitz on Happy Sad Confused podcast, Snyder, who’s been on a tear recently in regards to headline-grabbing comments, told Horowitz that setting Man Of Steel in the Dark Knight world wasn’t “100 percent off the table.”

“We did talk about it a little bit. The whole thing is that I think it’s difficult,” Snyder said.