Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice director Zack Snyder has revealed that he wanted to cast The Dark Knight Trilogy's Christian Bale in his superhero epic, but not as Batman.

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“This is a total and opposite reality from the Chris Nolan movies. It’s another universe, so we couldn’t hire Christian Bale if we wanted to, because he doesn’t exist in our world. Maybe we could hire him to play another part. We did talk about that briefly," Snyder told FilmInk "I just wanted to hire Christian to play another part to make that obvious. Christian could play, like, Alfred with age makeup. No! Of course not. But you know what I mean. Even people at the studio would say, ‘Who are you getting from the other movies?’ And I was like, ‘Hey, come on guys, let’s all understand, it’s a different world.’"Snyder added, "In the Batman universe that Chris Nolan created, Superman would have a hard time existing. That that’s why we did a reboot on the universe, so we could allow these characters to exist together. We needed to do that to have Batman exist in this world.”In related Bale-Batman news, the Oscar winner recently admitted that he "didn’t quite nail it" in his portrayal as Batman.