Batman v Superman podcast: Excalibur, endings, and Ayn Rand

Entertainment Geekly Podcast: A deep dive.

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Darren Franich
Darren Franich
Darren Franich
Darren Franich is a former critic at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2023.
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Published on March 29, 2016 04:38PM EDT
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Batman v Superman is a movie! Or is it? These and other thought-provoking questions await you in a very special episode of the Entertainment Geekly podcast. How does the movie’s ending relate to The New Gods? What was this movie going to be, when it was just a Superman sequel and not a Batman reboot and a Justice League prologue? If Superman is God, and Lex Luthor is an atheist, then why does Batman kill people? Can The Fountainhead explain this movie? What’s the difference between mythology and propaganda?

Listen below, or subscribe on iTunes! Thoughts and feelings? Email me at darren_franich@ew.com, and we’ll respond in our next episode.

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