Comic-Con 2013. Man of Steel director Zack Snyder calls Harry Lennix, an actor in Man of Steel, to the stage at a heaving auditorium in San Diego, California. Lennix, under spotlight, reads the following text in authoritative, rich tones:
I want you to remember, Clark…in all the years to come…in your most private moments…I want you to remember…my hand…at your throat…I want you to remember…the one man who beat you…
The lights in the auditorium dim out. Only darkness, apt darkness, filling the excitable, but now attentive room. Creeping orchestral strings rise slowly to a climax as the Superman symbol shines proudly on a giant video screen. The crowd cheers. The cheers give way to silence. A dark, foreboding bass thumps out as the Bat symbol then appears behind, eclipsing the Superman sign with a Gothic majesty. The crowd erupts into an uncontrollable hysteria.
I get a little tear in my eye, as I absorb a huge rush of adrenaline.
And I wasn’t even there…
2015. Batman vs Superman.
Bring it.
dantandy 