Whilst the internet was busy breaking with the announcement that Batman and Superman will be sharing the big screen in 2015 for the first time, some other news went generally unnoticed. Of course plenty could change, so don’t take this as Gospel, but whilst Warner Bros. haven’t given the Man of Steel sequel a name, David S. Goyer may have let it slip.
During the Superman 75th Anniversary panel at Comic-Con, Goyer said, “So over in Hall H at the Warner Bros. – I guess most people know now – at the end of the Warner Bros. panel, Zack came out and he brought Harry Lennix, who plays General Swanwick in Man of Steel and we – actually, Harry read a bit from [The Dark Knight Returns] and so the next film we’re making, we’re already in pre-production, comes out in summer of 2015 and it’s – we’re actually not sure whether the title is Superman vs. Batman or Batman vs. Superman but yes, it’s – that rematch, that combination, the two guys onscreen and that’s happening.”
With Goyer having written Man of Steel and working on the new film, he’s in a pretty good position to know this. But with the panel taking place at the same time as the 20th Century Fox panel, where we got to see a hell of a lot of mutants, it was easy to overlook.
Various sites have since looked into this, and have discovered that Warner Bros. owns both SupermanVsBatman.com and BatmanVsSuperman.com, as well as BatmanVsSupermanMovie.com.
In all likelihood Warner Bros. will have registered the names before the announcement so that they safely had them for use. So WorldsFinestMovie.com being registered privately shouldn’t make any difference to them.
But so far it looks likely that ‘vs’ is what we’re heading towards.
What are your thoughts on the possible titles? Or even the whole idea? Let us know!
Originally published July 23, 2013. Updated April 11, 2018.
