Zach Snyder’s Justice League, part deux
A few days ago (you can read it here), I wondered about the increasing appearances and statements coming from director Zach Snyder via his Vero account concerning his film Justice League.
The film is about to be released on home video, so one might be forgiven in thinking he’s trying to get people excited to buy the film.
Not so.
As I mentioned in that previous post and for those living in a rock until now, Zach Snyder left work on Justice League some six months before the movie’s release. His adopted daughter had committed suicide and, he stated, he couldn’t continue doing this work. Thus the film was completed by Joss Whedon and this was the version that was released to theaters.
To those who saw Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Zach Snyder’s previous film leading into Justice League, it was quite clear that Mr. Whedon made considerable changes to the film before it was released.
Since then, the people who are fans of Mr. Snyder’s work have clamoured for the release of “his” version of the film versus the one that was released.
The big question is: Is there an actual Zach Snyder “cut” of the film?
In that previous blog post, I noted they released a “Donner Cut” of Superman II. This despite the fact that Mr. Donner didn’t actually finish making that film back in the late 1970’s.
Unlike Mr. Donner, Mr. Snyder completed all principle photography of Justice League. He was working on some reshoots when he left the film but rumor has it that before he left there was a three hour “cut” of the film assembled. How complete -or good- the cut was is the question.
Regardless, several days have passed since my posting and if nothing else, it appears that more and more people are thinking that Mr. Snyder is hinting that a “Snyder Cut” of his film exists.
Over at polygon.com Julia Alexander wrote the following article, which examines the building feeling people have that perhaps, just maybe, there is something to the rumors:
Fans are convinced Zach Snyder is using an app to tease Justice League Snyder Cut
I will repeat: A “Donner Cut” of Superman II was eventually released to home video even though by the time Mr. Donner was fired from the movie he had filmed some 60% of it.
Again: Zach Snyder completed all principle photography. He was working on reshoots when he left the project.
There may be work to be done, but I strongly suspect if Warner Brothers/DC allows it, we will eventually get a Zach Snyder cut of Justice League.
