triq267 Superman/Batman was a comic which ran for ~8 years. They aren't making something new, but they aren't just throwing in Batman like you were saying. They're bringing it back to one of their most successful series. Of course they don't know each other yet, they just rebooted the series. It'll all be in the movie. That complaint is like saying Avengers wouldn't work because Thor hadn't met Captain America before the movie. Dark Knight was never going to be canon, so let's not even go there. I don't know how much you read comics, but saying none of those heroes have a place being dark or gritty is just silly. Plus, that's the same kind of complaint people made about Arrow before it turned out to be like the best thing. Oh, and there's Blackest Night, because tumut Realistic? Who said anything about being realistic? MORE realistic, yes, but realism was thrown aside long ago. They just want to make it more, idk, not total bullshit. Like Marvel did. Oh, and whinging about rumors is silly. They're rumors, wait to whinge about them until they're real. I didn't want to do one of these types of responses, but as a big superhero fan, I couldn't let it go.

BlondLionEzel @triq267 For Batman and Superman thing, why do they need to fight each other? At this point, Batman doesn't even know who Superman is, so why would they even fight? I do wish that the Dark Knight was canon ,since other than Micheal Keaton, Christian Bale felt like the best Batman. And yes, I do read the comics. But the problem is that when the theme of an Cinematic Universe is "Dark and gritty", when it focuses on an alien who somehow looks like a human, a billionaire who dresses up like a bat, an amazonian warrior, a guy who can create constructs with a green power ring, a guy with robot parts, a guy who can run super fast because of the Speed Force, and a half-human, half-atlantean is not realistic. Gritty, maybe, but definitely not realistic. Also, at least Arrow had its own fair share of fun and happy moments, along with its darker moments. Though I do hope Blackest Night becomes a movie. But one of the things about Marvel is that they tend to poke fun at the fact that it's not realistic. I quote Hawkeye from Age of Ultron: "The city is flying. We're fighting an army of robots. And I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense." But if they're going to a Justice League movie, please don't base it off of the New 52. As for the rumored parts...we've seen question marks in Gotham, and from leaked things we might see Doomsday. This is just my opinion but Lex Luthor can't hold against Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Flash.

triq267 ^ As for why Superman and Batman have to fight, that will most likely be the very beginning of the film. If I had to guess, it'll be similar to the recent reboot of the Justice League animated film series, where they fight at first because there's all this shit going on with villains, and then one of them shows up and the other just assumes, "Hey, it's another one of those costumed freaks trying to blow up Gotham/Metropolis", and they fight, and then once they realize how wrong they were they awkwardly team up to take out the real threat. And even if that's not how it happens, I bet they could explain away why they fight, and barring some ridiculous reason, it should be fine. And you're right, there is no way to make any of these heroes realistic. But realism isn't what they're going for. They want to make it more realistic than the old movies or the cartoons, but I highly doubt anyone on the development team for this film honestly believes it can be made "realistic". Plus, with the whole Batman v. Superman idea, they could still make it fun by taking a page from the Superman/Batman interactions from the Worlds Finest animated film. I can definitely agree on the New 52 thing though. New 52 is the worst thing to happen to DC since Superboy Prime punched that wall. Riddle me this, what grows more the less substance there is to it? A rumor, of course! The Riddler rumor is probably the most likely to actually happen, although even then I feel like the Riddler is more likely to be in a solo Batman film than in the Superman v. Batman one, and what we've seen is just a teaser of what is to come. But I do agree Lex Luthor shouldn't be able to hold his own against all those heroes, which is what makes me think that there might be another villain (or two) that we haven't seen yet. Oh, and Doomsday I feel is another thing that they probably wouldn't do until later, because doing the Death of Superman this early into the reboot is just asking for trouble.

BlondLionEzel @triq267 It might be because Superman killed Zod, but that would be hypocritical, since Batman kills people all the time! But cartoons (Batman TAS, Superman TAS, Justice League / Justice League Unlimited, Batman Beyond) did a good job in keeping it balanced. I hope the Riddler is in his own Batman movie...also, I hope they save Doomsday for later. Also, we've got reports that Blue Beetle might be in the movie. I kind of hope he is, because I LOVE Blue Beetle (Jamie Reyes)