"Snyder Cut" News

There has been much talk about this alleged Snyder cut of the Justice League. Zack Snyder has been preaching for years that the “Justice League'' placed in cinemas around the world by Warner is not the “Justice League” that he created. Initially, I believed that Snyder was trying to distance himself from the nearly unwatchable film. I did put some merit in his comments because the director’s cut of “Batman V. Superman” did make a lot more sense than the theatrical release.  

When HBO Max was announced the rumors of the “Snyder Cut” being featured on the platform soon followed. At the beginning, there was much speculation about what the “Snyder Cut” would contain. Finally, Snyder himself started to weigh in on his version of “Justice League.” One of the more shocking statements was that the theatrical release was not even his product. Snyder stated that the “Justice League” that was seen across the world, was actually the product of Joss Whedon. Snyder insists that so much of the film was changed that it almost does not contain any original shots from Synder.  

This should come as no surprise to those of you that are familiar with Warner and the films that they produce. Warner has always been focused on the bottom line and what can make the most profit. It is called show business for a reason. Ultimately, movie making is still a business and Warner wants to profit as much as possible from their films. Unfortunately, that means that sacrifices need to be made. One way that Warner tried to reduce costs in “Justice League” was reducing the length of the film to a maximum of 2 hours. This is a prime example of the idiocrasy that takes place within the ivory tower at Warner. “Justice League” was created to be Warner's answer to “Avengers.” “Justice League” was going to lay out the DC Extended Universe for years to come. This means that the talking heads at Warner thought that a single two hour feature film could contain enough character development and backstory to set-up an entire extended universe the same way four films did for Marvel. That alone should be enough evidence to justify my argument that the Batman Franchise and The DC Extended Universe will forever be doomed while Warner is involved. 

One of my friends did send the following comment found on Reddit: 

“Some frequent questions I've seen coming up is what's different with this version to the 2017 version of Justice League.

Zack Snyder shot 5 hours of assembly footage during principle photography in 2016. From that, he edited it to 214 mins(3.5 hours) and was happy to call it his director's cut. From this, he was happy to edit it down to 3 hours for the theatrical cut, and release the 3.5 hour directors cut in Blu-ray.

But WB wanted Zack Snyder to cut it to 2 hours for the theatrical cut. Which is unbelievable, since cutting 1.5 hours from a 3.5 hour movie would make it extremely unwatchable and make absolutely no sense. Snyder tried his best to negotiate with WB to release a longer cut, even made a 2.5 hour cut, which was extremely compromised and makes no sense, but WB wasn't happy. This was when Snyder suffered a family tragedy and lost the will to fight with WB for the longer cut.

He stepped down and WB(Geoff Johns) used this opportunity to hire Joss Whedon, and use the 2 months of reshoots to reshoot almost the entire film. He wrote 88 pages of reshoots, which translates to almost 90 mins of the final movie.

The original cinematographer, Fabian Wagner, and later Snyder confirmed that only 30 mins of the theatrical cut of Justice League had shots by Zack Snyder, and even those were heavily edited. The rest were shot by Joss Whedon.

So Zack Snyder's Justice League releasing next month, which is 4 hours, will contain at minimum 3.5 hours of footage we never saw.

The only new idea is the 4 mins of new footage he shot recently with Jared Leto and Joe Mangeniello, which he added since he wanted this universe's Batman and Joker meet at least once. Other than that, it's all shot in 2016.”

 Unfortunately, I do not have the source of the comment. However, I did some minor research through different articles and it appears that the comment has factual information. 

That reddit comment has my excitement level rising for the “Snyder Cut.” From the sounds of it Snyder’s “Justice League” will be a completely different film than the one that was originally released. It would be nearly impossible to make a worse film than was released by Warner, so I am ready for this version to be released. The advertised release date is March 18th of this year and it cannot come soon enough.