We got a brief taste of the new trailer on Monday, but now here comes the full power of round two for Zack Snyder’s latest Warner Bros./DC film, as the latest trailer for Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice smashes online. We’d caution that spoilers probably lie ahead if you’ve been trying to stay completely pure on this one, so take this as fair warning.
The new footage offers up a lot more of Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne and Henry Cavill’s Clark Kent as they meet at a ritzy event and immediately take a disliking to each other: Clark criticising Gotham City’s Bat vigilante and Bruce taking a swipe at the “puff pieces” the Daily Planet is running about Metropolis’s own hero. Of course, neither knows that the other is the very thing they’re running down, but that’s just part of the fun when you have secret identities.
Also featured this time around? More of Jesse Eisenberg’s take on Lex Luthor, which comes across as a younger, stringy-haired version of Woody Allen crossed with Seinfeld’s Kramer, and who clearly has a death-to-Supes plan that involves the body of Michael Shannon’s General Zod and either creating or unleashing the classic Man of Steel villain known as Doomsday. And what do you do when you have a seemingly unstoppable alien creature on your hands? Why, you’d better hope that Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman is around to help out. No sign of the other DC heroes just yet, but perhaps it’s best to just let the big three have their moments before the entire Justice League starts coming together.
With Amy Adams, Jeremy Irons, Jason Momoa and Holly Hunter also part of the cast, Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice brings its spandex showdown to UK screens on March 25 next year.