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Watch Batman v Superman’s 2013 Comic-Con Announcement

Here at IGN we occasionally like to showcase something from geekdom’s rich history — a pop-culture Time Capsule, if you will, that gives us a peek in to the past, perhaps providing a new appreciation for previous projects.

If you’d like, please check out the past few Time Capsules:

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No, DC FanDome is not an enclosed barbaric battleground pitting fans against each other. Nor is it a nickname for Dick Grayson’s righteous rear. DC FanDome is a 24-hour immersive virtual fan experience that’s being held on August 22 where DC die-hards will be able to log in and see new announcements and trailers for a variety of upcoming DC movies, TV series, comics, and video games.

With this recent announcement rocking the virtual Con world, our Time Capsule this week whisks us back to San Diego Comic-Con 2013 when Zack Snyder, with a little help from Man of Steel actor Harry Lennix, announced Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Thus, the MCU was born. Er, that’s Martha Cinematic Universe.

Just kidding. It’s the DCEU. Diana Crushes Everything Utterly.

To tease the SDDC crowd into an unbridled frenzy, Snyder handed the mic over to Lennix who read the “I want you to remember, Clark…” lines from the end of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, where Batman is in the midst of handing Superman his Kryptonian keister. “My hand, at your throat. My Labradoodle’s poop, on your lawn. My incessant talking, while you’re trying to watch Outlander.” Yup, the Caped Crusader was opening up a can of “get off my lawn!”

Check it out…

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The video ends with the Batman v Superman logo and the audience going nuts. Clearly the idea of justice being dawned appealed to everyone. As did the notion of a reverse MCU, in which DC would start off with the team ups and then splinter off into solo films. As did the combination of Sriracha and popcorn. That’s unrelated, yes, but it’s a very popular snack item.

Little did everyone in the hall know at the time but Batman v Superman, while still raking in a ton of dough, would be the reason films like Suicide Squad and Justice League would get chopped up and tonally altered. Critics’ mixed reaction to Dawn of Justice had Warner Bros. scrambling to make their movies lighter, to match the vibe of the MCU. It was announced however, just a month ago that the Snyder Cut of Justice League would be completed and debut in 2021 on HBO Max.

The first clip of the Snyder Cut was recently released in fact, revealing Darkseid.

In more DC FanDome news, the event’s virtual panels will feature interviews from the cast and creators of many current and upcoming DC projects – including Wonder Woman 1984, The Batman, The Suicide Squad, Black Adam, the Arrowverse shows, and Zack Snyder’s Justice League. It will be a who’s who of Zoom screens as fans hear from celebs, check out new footage, learn of casting news, argue about casting news, start a hashtag to change the casting news, and then explode into a ball of smoke that evaporates into the clear blue ether.

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Hugh Jackman in Talks for Michael Mann’s Ferrari Biopic

Announced this weekend, Academy Award-nominated director Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral) will start production soon on his highly-anticipated biopic Ferrari and Academy Award-nominee Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman, Logan) is in discussions to star as the racing icon Enzo Ferrari.

Mann will direct a script he co-wrote with Troy Kennedy Martin (The Italian Job), based on Brock Yates’ book “Enzo Ferrari – The Man and the Machine.”

Ferrari will be set in the summer of 1957, when all the dynamic forces in Enzo Ferrari’s life collide. The racecar company he and his wife Laura built is going broke. Their tempestuous marriage has already suffered the death of their son, Dino, and Ferrari’s other son, 12-year old Piero, the product of a wartime romance, now wants to know his place in the world. Enzo boldly rolls the dice for all their futures on one race – 1,000 miles across Italy, the brutal and infamous 1957 Mille Miglia.

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Mann was recently an executive producer on James Mangold’s Ford vs Ferrari, starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale. In fact, Bale was originally slated to play Ferrari in Mann’s biopic back when it was supposed to kick off production in 2018, but was then replaced by Jackman after Bale developed health issues while putting on weight for the film. In Ford vs Ferrari, Bale played British racing engineer Ken Miles.

Principal photography for Ferrari is anticipated to start in spring 2021. STX is handling international sales at the upcoming Cannes Virtual Market and will directly distribute the film in the UK and Ireland.

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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.