While DC is playing catch-up with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fans have been interested in seeing the two film franchises clash in a potential Marvel DC crossover. And it turns out they aren’t the only ones – the cast of Justice League feels the same!
The cast was recently interviewed by Channel News Asia, who brought up the question of crossing over with Marvel. They all showed tremendous interest, particularly Ben Affleck who plays Batman.
“I don’t own Marvel or DC, but I think it would be great,” Affleck said. “I’m sure if it could be successful for everybody people would like to do it. I don’t see why not it’s a great idea.”
Henry Cavill feels similarly to Affleck, and explains that Marvel and DC need to work together despite the rivalry between fans.
“I think the rivalry lives in the fans more so than it does in us,” Cavill explained. “For all of us who are making these movies or I’m sure for the comic book artists and writers, there have been rivalries in the past but now it’s just about celebrating these characters, certainly for us. I mean, I’m sure when it comes to deep finances, when it comes to DC and Marvel there’s always going to be competition, yeah, but they need each other to survive as well. If one goes down that means superheroes aren’t popular and you don’t want that because if one goes down the other goes down.”
Cyborg actor Ray Fisher, meanwhile, relates the idea of a crossover to his childhood days. He explains that Batman would always win any battle.
“I’ve been a huge DC fan since I was growing up” Fisher said. “I had friends who were huge fans of Marvel we’d always, Batman would always win. I would always figure out a way for Batman to beat anybody no matter what universe they were in.”
Fisher also explained that the crossover would have to respect the styles and consistencies of both franchises.
“It’s like, it’s red and blue,” Fisher explained. “It’s literally down to what do you like, what are you into. I think to put it all together, you don’t want to take this sort of homogenized sort of tone either, I would love to see some of these characters fight one another, that would be really awesome to see, but you also want to make sure that you maintain your own style and integrity.”
Jason Momoa who plays Aquaman was especially enthusiastic about battling some Marvel heroes.
“I would love to be [in a crossover,]” Momoa said. “Hell yeah! I mean like, Hemsworth, I love him. It’s like, to be next to Thor, or to be next to the Hulk. It’s like ‘oh, I’m going to take you out on the water and drown your ass.'”
Although it would likely never happen until both franchises were starting to dry up. As Cavill explains,
“It’s been done in comic books and I think once stories start to run out or people feel like they’ve seen it all before, yeah, I think there’s something there in the future.”
Meanwhile you can see DC’s superheroes come together in Justice League on November 17, 2017.
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