However, Jor-El didn’t reappear in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and according to Crowe, the adjustments made to the movie led to his absence from the story.
For decades, Marlon Brando was the actor who almost everyone associated with Superman’s Kryptonian father, Jor-El, but in 2013’s Man of Steel, Russell Crowe inherited the role.
Originally — I could be completely wrong — I think there was a number of Superman movies.
But I think they made the decision to jump past those and go to the idea of Batman and Superman in the same film.