The hype this week for Superman/Batman: Public Enemies just keeps coming and coming. Newsarama also have conducted an interview with writer Stan Berkowitz to talk more about his screenplay adaption of Jeph Loebs Superman/Batman comic.

“Compared to other writers, I think Jeph Loeb intended this to be like a movie,” says Berkowitz. “It was fairly easy to adapt in a screenplay. The big difference is the original comic was a six-parter. That meant there were five cliffhangers. That structure had to be changed a little bit because you don’t have four cliffhangers in a screenplay form. You have a three-act structure. So I had to change that a little bit. Otherwise, it was pretty easy to deal with.”

It also didn’t hurt that Berkowitz has been working with the DCAU’s leading lights, Bruce Timm, Alan Burnett and Andrea Romano for over a decade.

“I’ve been writing for those two characters since 1996-7,” he said. “I got to know them pretty well. Also, a lot of the dialogue comes from the comic book. You can tell. It was like someone started the tune and I just had to pick it up, like good jazz. We were just inspired by what was already there and just took it further, when necessary.

“Don’t forget, with these movies, they are trying to be faithful to the comic books, not just in story, but also in images. I think (director) Sam Liu and the entire art crew, from Bruce Timm on down, wanted to be respectful to the work Ed McGuiness did. I do know that we have some of the best animators in the world working here.

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(Source - Newsarama)