{"id":35959,"date":"2021-02-22T17:57:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T01:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=35959"},"modified":"2021-06-15T14:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T21:09:16","slug":"zack-snyder-has-never-seen-joss-whedons-version-of-justice-league-nor-is-he-getting-paid-to-finish-his-own-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=35959","title":{"rendered":"Zack Snyder Has Never Seen Joss Whedon’s Version of “Justice League,” Nor is He Getting Paid to Finish His Own Version"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Zack Snyder<\/strong> has never seen the theatrical cut of Justice League<\/strong><\/em>, or what some refer to as Josstice League <\/strong><\/em>aka Joss Whedon’s<\/strong> version of the film. As Snyder himself gears up to release Zack Snyder’s Justice League<\/strong><\/em> on HBO Max<\/strong> less than a month from now, fans and critics alike are chomping at the bit to watch his four-hour epic to immediately compare it to the mediocre two-hour outing we originally got in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow am I supposed to introduce six characters and an alien with potential for world domination in two hours? I mean, I can do it, it can be done. Clearly it was<\/em> done,\u201d Snyder told Vanity Fair<\/a>. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t see it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It’s well known now that both Zack and his wife Deborah<\/strong> (a producer on most of her husband’s films) eventually left the production on their own. The reasoning behind the departure was due to constant disagreements with the tone, compromises, and a family tragedy where they lost their 20-year old daughter Autumn<\/strong> to suicide. The production took a sharp turn in a completely different direction after Snyder’s departure, leaving just fragments of his original footage in the theatrical release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snyder himself is listed as the sole director on 2017’s Justice League<\/em>, despite the fact that we now know over 75% of the film was reshot and rewritten by Avengers <\/strong><\/em>director Joss Whedon. When the finished film was finally screened on the Warner Bros.<\/strong> lot, executive producers Christopher Nolan <\/strong>and Deborah Snyder<\/strong> were less than enthused and more concerned with keeping it away from Zack than anything else. Snyder tells Vanity Fair<\/a> that the two showed up with a very straight forward message; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“They came and they just said, ‘You can never see that movie’.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The film had been so heavily tampered with that both Nolan and Deborah Snyder could not bear to have Snyder watch this patched together, unearned last ditch effort at Avengers<\/em> level success. It wasn’t an accident that Joss Whedon was brought on in the first place. Whedon had already directed two films for Marvel Studios<\/strong>, helping guide both over the billion dollar mark at the box office, something WB<\/strong> was unable to pull-off since the Christopher Nolan\/Christian Bale Batman<\/em> <\/strong>trilogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The executives began to lose faith in the “Snyderverse<\/strong>” after the critical and financial failure that was Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice<\/strong><\/em> in March 2016. The director was immediately put on thin ice with the studio as a result. His every move from that point on was carefully ‘supervised’ by the likes of executive producers Geoff Johns<\/strong> and Jon Berg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, after years of fans lending their support to the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut movement, we are finally getting what everyone has been asking for, and then some. Not only did Snyder shoot additional footage involving Ben Affleck<\/strong>, Jared Leto<\/strong>, Ray Fisher<\/strong> and others, but he also has a few other surprises that have yet to be revealed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Checkout these official images from the filming of additional scenes for Zack Snyder’s Justice League <\/em>that take place last fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n