“That’s not how you build a house”: The author of “Man Of Steel” explains how DC failed in its attempt to imitate Marvel

Man Of Steel author David S. Goyer recently appeared on Joshua Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast and spoke extensively about his career. Goyer also said that Henry Cavill should have gotten his own “Superman” sequel instead of immediately being faced with helping build a cinematic universe with “Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice” to compete with Marvel:

“I know the pressure we got from Warner Bros., which was, ‘We need our own MCU! We need our own MCU!” And I thought to myself, we shouldn’t run before we learn to walk. It was also difficult at the time because there was a revolving door between executives at Warner Bros. and DC. Someone new came every 18 months. We have whiplash. Every new person said, ‘We’re getting bigger!’”

Always more and more!

Goyer said in an interview with Horowitz: “I remember the person who opened Warner Bros. once published an overview of the next twenty films for the next ten years. But none of them had been written yet! It was crazy how much architecture was built on the run… You don’t build a house like that.”

David S. Goyer not only wrote the screenplays for ‘Man Of Steel’ and ‘Batman V Superman’, but also collaborated with Christopher Nolan on his ‘The Dark Knight’ trilogy. He also wrote the originals for all three “Blade” films with Wesley Snipes – and also took a seat in the director’s chair for “Blade: Trinity.”

What about DC? Meanwhile, James Gunn and Peter Safran continue to shape the new DC universe. The first chapter is called ‘Gods And Monsters’ and consists of five films and five series that are related to each other. James Gunn will also write and direct “Superman: Legacy.”