While Marvel Studios may have a full slate of films scheduled through 2015 plus three untitled films slated beyond 2015, Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment are playing catch up. But WB and DC are planning to catch up fast and in a big way!
Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara has now said (per SuperHeroHype via ComicBook) that not only will Warners' future plans hinge a lot on DC's superheroes but there will be many DC movies coming out soon.
"I think the basis, foundation of those 12 to 14 pictures are going to be coming from DC Entertainment."
But wait... it sounds like the CEO may have confirmed the new title of the Batman/Superman film, even though what he calls is not a new title.
"We have 'Batman vs. Superman' coming out in 2015, but there are going to be in the coming months a lot of announcements regarding the future movie, television, games and consumer product pieces that are going to be coming from DC... DC really does touch a lot of parts of our business and is an important part of the strategy in how we are going to grow going forward."
Tsujihara also talked about what kind of Batman that actor Ben Affleck will play in the Man of Steel sequel.
"[He will be] tired and weary and seasoned and been doing it for awhile... We think it’s going to be huge."
Finally, and after a month since the news almost broke the Internet, Affleck finally spoke about being Batman on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (via Batman-News).
"It's so awesome, I'm so excited. They called me up and said 'do you want to do this', and I'm like, 'I'm not 25 man are you sure?'. So they said to come down and we'll show you what we're doing, and it was incredible. Zack has this incredible take on it..obviously we can't do what Christian (Bale) did, those movies are amazing, so he wants to do something different but still in keeping with that."