Snyder has also taken small pieces of Miller’s Batman comic to develop his on screen Caped Crusader and while it may seem like an impossibility at the moment with Snyder’s DC days appearing to be over and Matt Reeves’ The Batman expected to be the future of the franchise for the foreseeable, the director has previously expressed a desire to develop a full live-action movie based on Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns.
Frank Miller is a comic book hero to many, having been responsible for the likes of Sin City, 300, Batman: Year One and The Dark Knight Returns, the latter of which is regarded as one of the best Batman comic arcs in the history of the Gotham crime fighter.
“I think it would just be its own thing,” Snyder said on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast about the Dark Knight Returns storyline.
“I mean, I came in and I came up with my idea for The Dark Knight Returns and that basically was the big splash I made, which started my whole career going.