I wrote on […] this version of Batman v Superman [around 2001 or 2002]— when Colin Farrell was cast as Batman and Jude Law was cast as Superman and Wolfgang Petersen was directing —we were in prep and it was the darkest thing you’ve ever seen.
It started with Alfred’s funeral and Bruce has fallen in love and renounced being Batman, the Joker kills his wife, and then you discover it was all a lie.
Just that the love itself was constructed by the Joker to break [Bruce].
It was a time where you would be able to get these sort of stories together in script form but they couldn’t quite land in the world.