Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice Pitch Meeting

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**Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice Pitch Meeting** is the sixteenth episode of the Pitch Meeting series on Screen Rant.

## Description

So Batman is finally coming to the DCEU, and since his origin story has already been done a million times, they decided to do it again. But this time in super slow motion. So the movie starts off with Batman mad at Superman because while he was fighting Zod, Batman's friend Jack got killed. Lex Luthor then orchestrates a plan to get Batman and Superman to fight each other. But this isn't your typical Lex Luthor. This one is young, has hair, likes candy and makes a lot of funny Mickey Mouse noises. His whole plan is super easy, barely an inconvenience. So Batman and Superman fight for a couple minute until Batman realizes that Superman has a mom. Then Superman dies fighting Doomsday and we all pretend that he's going to stay dead. And Wonder Woman is there. They also send emails.

## Cast

* Producer Guy - Ryan George
* Screenwriter Guy - Ryan George

**Producer Guy:** So we're bringing Batman into the DCEU.

**Screenwriter Guy:** That's right! And you know I was thinking, everybody's already kind of seen Batman's origin story.

**Producer Guy:** Oh yeah, everybody's seen that like a thousand times.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Exactly, so I figure let's do it again.

**Producer Guy:** Oh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah but this time we'll do it suuuuuuper slowly.

**Producer Guy:** Ooh, slow motion? That is so cool!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, you like slow-mo?

**Producer Guy:** Oh-ho, yes I do! In fact let's use it in all the scenes, all- e- e- every scene.

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[confused]* Oh, really? Every scene?

**Producer Guy:** Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[concerned]* I mean the script is already kind of long; I feel like that might extend the runtime to over three hours.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, we can just cut out some scenes at random then.

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[concerned]* At random? What i- What if some important stuff gets cut?

**Producer Guy:** Even better!

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[confused]* What do you mean?

**Producer Guy:** Well if people want the movie to make more sense they can pay for an Ultimate Edition.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, that's smart.

**Producer Guy:** Right?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Or maybe evil?

**Producer Guy:** No it's smart.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Okay gotcha.

**Producer Guy:** So anyway, what happens in the movie?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well first off Batman is mad at Superman because when Superman was fighting Zod in *Man of Steel* somebody close to him got killed.

**Producer Guy:** Was it Robin?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No.

**Producer Guy:** Alfred?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Nope.

**Producer Guy:** Lucius?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Uh-uh.

**Producer Guy:** Well who was it?

**Screenwriter Guy:** It was Jack.

**Producer Guy:** *[confused]* Who's… Who's Jack?

**Screenwriter Guy:** He works at Wayne Enterprises as a financial advisor.

**Producer Guy:** Is he like from the comics or something?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No no no, I made him up.

**Producer Guy:** Gotcha.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Anyway we're gonna have Lex Luthor orchestrate a plan to get Batman and Superman to fight each other.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, Lex Luthor is in this?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, but this isn't your typical Lex Luthor.

**Producer Guy:** How so?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well he's young, he has hair, he likes candy, and he makes really high pitched Mickey Mouse noises like "Hm". "Hmhm".

**Producer Guy:** Oh, so he's like… a toddler.

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, he's like thirty.

**Producer Guy:** Wow. So… what's his plan?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, it's super simple. First he has to find out the secret identities of Batman and Superman, then lure Lois Lane to Africa to interview a rebel general but then sabotage it by outing a CIA operative named Jimmy so they can capture Lois and Superman shows up. Then he has to make sure all the rebels get murdered and that Superman gets blamed for the whole thing. Also he has to make sure that someone from that African village will lie to Congress about that so they force Superman to testify. Then he's gonna force-feed candy to a guy, and ask Congress for an import license because he wants to use Kryptonite to make a weapon in exchange for access to General Zod's body and also he needs to steal Zod's fingerprints. Then since Batman brands criminals for some reason, Luthor will hire other inmates to kill those criminals in jail because that'll make Superman want to investigate Batman instead of doing his actual job which is to cover football for the paper. Then he has to send some crazy stuff in the mail, then invite both of them to the same event and introduce them to each other in a very excited and suspicious way, even though there's no real reason to be introducing Bruce Wayne to low-level journalist Clark Kent. Then Lex has to blow up the Capitol building via a rigged wheelchair and a former Wayne employee so people will be mad that Superman didn't stop the explosion somehow. Lex assumes that this'll send Batman over the edge and luckily for him it does. Then Lex will access the Kryptonian spaceship for his backup plan of combining his DNA with Zod's body to make a giant monster with alien science or whatever. He'll call that thing Doomsday, kidnap Lois Lane, kidnap Superman's mom, tell Superman to kill Batman or she dies, then hope that Superman doesn't explain the situation to Batman and that they just fight each other.

**Producer Guy:** Oh. *[thinks about it]* Okay, simple enough.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, pretty straightforward.

**Producer Guy:** Cool.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah so instead of explaining the situation right away to Batman, Superman will be like "Bruce. I gotta talk to you. Bru- Bruce. Bruce listen. Listen to me Bruce. Bruce, this is important. Bruce. Bruce. Bruce, I'm gonna say something important.".

**Producer Guy:** And so then they fight?

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[smugly]* Yes they do. For a couple of minutes.

**Producer Guy:** Very cool.

**Screenwriter Guy:** But then Batman finds out that Superman's mom has the same name as his mom.

**Producer Guy:** *[confused]* That… makes them… stop fighting?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, because it makes Batman realize "Oh, this guy has a mom. He can't be that bad. Every concern I had about this super powerful alien is gone.".

**Producer Guy:** Interesting.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And so they're gonna team up to fight the giant Doomsday monster that Lex somehow knew how to make.

**Producer Guy:** How does that go?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well they manage to kill it but Superman dies in the process.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, well, I mean he's not really dead, right?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Of course not.

**Producer Guy:** Obviously.

**Screenwriter Guy:** But we *will* spend a looooong time pretending like he is.

**Producer Guy:** Even though nobody's gonna buy that?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Even though nobody's gonna buy that.

**Producer Guy:** Cool. So, listen, we also have to kind of use this movie to set up the *Justice League* film. Is that gonna be hard to shoehorn in there?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No no no, super easy, barely an inconvenience.

**Producer Guy:** Really?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, actually way ahead of you on that one. Batman is gonna meet Wonder Woman at Lex's party.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, why is she there?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Because.

**Producer Guy:** Gotcha, and they're gonna go on kind of a sidequest to uncover the other heroes?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No no no but what they *will* do, and people are gonna love this, is send each other some emails.

**Producer Guy:** Why- Why- Why are people gonna love that?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well think about it, what is the big thing missing from the modern superhero movie?

**Producer Guy:** I- I feel like you're gonna say "emails", but-

**Screenwriter Guy:** Emails! People wanna see superheroes email each other!

**Producer Guy:** Alright, I mean you seem really excited about emails.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, I am!

**Producer Guy:** Great, well I hope people share your excitement.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, so these emails are gonna have attachments of video files showing the other heroes.

**Producer Guy:** You know what, I guess that is pretty cool.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Right?

**Producer Guy:** Yeah, it's much more efficient than taking the time to set up these characters before jumping into the big teamup movie.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh yeah, Marvel wishes they thought of an email scene.

**Producer Guy:** Oh yeah, they're kickin' themselves!

**Screenwriter Guy:** So what do you think of the movie overall?

**Producer Guy:** Meh, doesn't matter.

**Screenwriter Guy:** What do you mean?

**Producer Guy:** Look, we have Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman in the *same movie*. We can do anything we want and everyone's gonna love it!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, really?

**Producer Guy:** Listen to me. *Everyone*.

*[cut to headline: **Early Batman V Superman Reviews Are Largely Negative**]*