Anna Daniels
Snyder’s latest look behind the curtain of Batman v Superman came via a recent livestream of the film that saw him delivering insightful commentary about the Flash’s cameo (via ComicBook.com). As it happens, the confusing scene was likely intended to be just that, as Snyder stated he was planning to use the moment to frame an intricate overarching narrative that would’ve impacted the planned Justice League sequels.
“I had this idea that in the future when they [the Justice League] are talking about sending Flash back to warn [Bruce Wayne], that Cyborg would be doing the calculations to send him back and would say, ‘I have two possibilities of where to send Flash back in time. The numbers point to two moments to warn you [Bruce],'” Snyder revealed. “If it’s right near the moment when this vent might happen — where Lois might get killed, or Bruce isn’t able to stop it, however that’s happening — it would be important if Flash came closer to that moment so that Bruce could understand the reality of it.”
He continued, “So, in the future, Bruce says to Cyborg, ‘Well, what times would you send me back to — what time right now would you send me back?’ And Cyborg says, ‘I’m leaning toward this.’ And Bruce says, ‘Do the other one, because you already sent him back here and it was too early, so send me to the other one.’ So that’s how he’s able to get him [Flash] back again: because in the new timeline, he goes to a different point in time that’s closer to the event that we haven’t seen yet in this film.”
It seems Snyder’s plan was to use the Flash’s time-hopping interventions to explore disparate timelines: one that saw Superman break bad and enslave humanity, and one in which Batman and the gang get ahead of Superman’s Darkseid team-up to get Supes back on the side of the righteous.
Written by: Looper
