Kevin Smith admitted "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" takes the back seat to "Star Wars Episode 7" any day.
The filmmaker has frequently commented on both productions, but has only visited the "Star Wars" set. Smith is a self-proclaimed Batman fanboy, but during the Neuchatel International Film Festival he couldn't stop talking about the Lucasfilm production.
"What I saw blew me away," Smith said. "I was...up until then the movie I couldn't wait to see, of course, Batman vs. Superman. Number one I love Batman. Number two I know the guy playing Batman this time, and you know [pointing to his Fat Man jersey] Fat Man. But that just took second place. Suddenly, the guy who was like, 'Yeah, Star Wars, I liked that as a kid.' That dude is now this dude, who's like, 'Star Wars still means the world to me."
Smith's love for the DC vigilante recently left him in the middle of the "Batman vs. Superman" rumor mills. A random Twitter user allegedly leaked a fake script to movie sites pretending to be a source connected to the Warner Bros. production.
The filmmaker took to his official blog to clear up the fake script speculation.
"However, none of those has been a fake BATS v SUPES script. C'mon, kids... No major studio would let a guy like me near their franchises - even if it was for a dummy script meant solely to fool the news sites," Smith said in his blog.
"No, anything I've said about 'Milo and Sage' was based on an image Zack showed me while hosting a MAN OF STEEL online event at Yahoo many months back," he added. "The little I know of the flick beyond that I learned from some cats involved (though never BatFleck himself; as I've said a few times now on the Babble-On podcast, beyond email, I haven't spoken to Ben in years). Fun story, though."
