10 Genuine Lessons Batman V Superman Can Learn From Batman & Robin

4. Care About The Comics

The Mistake Batman And Robin Made: You'd think a Batman movie in the nineties would take the character's relatively recent turn into the grit following The Dark Knight Returns as inspiration, exploring this new layer Frank Miller had added to both character and the wider comic medium. You'd be wrong - although Joel Schumacher would often describe himself as a Bat-fan, Batman & Robin was really calling back to the TV show from the '60s, only with none of the knowingness Adam West brought to it, actively disregarding the print source. Of course, Christopher Nolan was also pretty loose in how he adapted classic comic elements, but throughout The Dark Knight Trilogy there was still a sense of reverence to the graphic novel origins that just wasn't there for the Clooney movie. Will Dawn Of Justice Learn The Lesson? In the wake of source-disregarding duds like Catwoman, Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer and X-Men: The Last Stand, as well as the success of Marvel's geek-out Cinematic Universe, comic reverence is an even more potent drive in superhero cinema than it was twenty years ago. So it'd be highly unlikely for the new movie to completely eschew the graphic novels. Man Of Steel messed a lot with the culturally known Superman origin, but most of its changes did admittedly come from various comic sources. Likewise, Batman V Superman looks like it'll be borrowing liberally from The Dark Knight Returns and various runs of DC's New 52, which, when coupled with Snyder's affinity for the material, should mean the characters in the film are fitting adaptations.