User blog comment:Damac1214/CoDWiki News - August 31st, 2014/@comment-1263839-20140831203738/@comment-1263839-20140901181031

I'll go through what I know of the film. When I sound like I'm stating opinions as facts I would like to reiterate that it is just opinion.

The plot has to have Batman being able to be in a fight with Superman, therefore there will be many contrived moments in the plot to accommodate it. Focus is lost, it gets messy.

Wonder Woman is being shoved in there for some reason, kinda making it a Justice League prequel. She has to change the plot in some way to prelude to the Justice League movie, and she would have to get involved with the Superman/Batman slapping contest.

No plans for the film and what it was about even began until after Man of Steel made major bank (yo) at the Box Office. This rushed (for a super hero) film will have to be the world building film because Man of Steel was mostly self contained. It will have to make connections to the previous film, and then make links to the next one. At least the Marvel films had this ready from the start.

The other day they announce a "no jokes" rule. This contradicts Man of Steel which was the Nolan film style of being serious and grim dark but having moments of humour. This changes the tone of the film and means the story has to be more focused on to make the characters remotely interesting.

Practically the only thing I can say is solidly being kept is the aesthetic, it doesn't look like Snyder is changing that just yet.