After years of reports calling it everything from a finished film to a pipe dream, the fabled “Snyder Cut” of Justice League is finally getting released this March, thanks to HBO Max. It is scheduled to drop on the Warner Bros. streaming platform in March under the title Zack Snyder’s Justice League, first as a four-part miniseries and later as a very long movie. With Zack Snyder finally seeing his version of Justice League released, one might assume that the director is planning to restore the DC Extended Universe he established before directors like Patty Jenkins and James Wan brought a lighter tone to the franchise. But despite reports that Zack Snyder’s Justice League leaves the door open for sequels, the director doesn’t intend to make any more DCEU movies.
Before the passing of his daughter forced him to step down from directing Justice League, Zack Snyder was planning the movie as the first part of a series that would’ve eventually taken DC’s iconic heroes into space to battle Darkseid. When Snyder departed from the project, Warner Bros. and Joss Whedon drastically retooled the movie to have a leaner runtime and a lighter, more Marvel-like tone. Dissatisfied with this version of the movie, many DC fans called for the studio to release Snyder’s version until eventually, Warner relented and pumped $70 million into making it happen.
In addition to bringing back some of his own material that got cut and cutting out scenes shot by Whedon, Snyder has reportedly brought back such retired DCEU actors as Ben Affleck and Jared Leto to shoot new footage for Zack Snyder’s Justice League. After all the money that the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut campaign raised for suicide prevention, the actual release just feels like the icing on the cake.
In an interview with ComicBook Debate, Zack Snyder said that since Justice League is “a years-old movie” and the DCEU has now “branched off and done its own thing,” he doesn’t intend to stick with the franchise after the release of the Snyder Cut. The 300 director added that he has “no issue” with the fact that the DCEU has headed in a different direction than the one he started it on with Man of Steel and Batman v Superman. Snyder elaborated, “As far as what I did and as far as what my vision for what I wanted to do with these characters and the journey I wanted them to go on, it’s well known that I planned on more movies – five movies or something – but I’m busy. I’ve got a lot going on…Would I continue [making DC movies]? I have no plan to. But, like I said, I didn’t think I’d be here, so who knows?”
Snyder’s plans to leave the franchise apparently line up with the plans of DC Films president Walter Hamada, who recently outlined the studio’s plans to create DCEU content for both theatrical release and streaming on HBO Max and clarified that Snyder isn’t involved in those plans. It won’t be clear whether or not DC fans would even want to see any sequels or spin-offs to Zack Snyder’s Justice League until it drops on HBO Max in March and the verdict comes in, although a number of fanboys seem to have decided it’s a masterpiece before it’s even been released.
Source: ComicBook Debate|Youtube
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