This one’s for the true believers, petitioners, and unwavering torch bearers who called out to Warner Bros Pictures to release the version of Justice League with Zack Snyder’s unaltered creative stamp of approval. Today during the fan Q&A portion of a Man of Steel Vero Watch Party hosted by the director, Snyder announced Zack Snyder’s Justice League is officially set to stream on HBO Max in 2021.
The trades provided additional details immediately following the Man of Steel director’s reveal on Vero. “It will be an entirely new thing, and, especially talking to those who have seen the released movie, a new experience apart from that movie,” Snyder told The Hollywood Reporter. “You probably saw one-fourth of what I did,” he noted of how much of his footage actually made it to the big screen.
Shortly after Justice League hit theaters in March 2018, which suffered bad reviews and disappointing box office returns, a vocal legion of fans have been petitioning for the release of the film that was true to Zack Snyder’s original vision. Dubbed The Snyder Cut, this alternate version of Justice League ideally would not include the extensive additional shooting and edits under Joss Whedon. The Avengers director was given creative control of JL after Snyder left the project due to a family tragedy. What made it to theaters under Whedon’s direction was not at all received well by both fans and critics alike and the hashtag #ReleaseTheSynderCut took a on a life of its own in the two years to follow.
What Snyder’s version actually entailed before the reigns were turned over was not known to fans. In the very least it was an epic assembly cut sitting on a hard drive with unfinished FX, pre-viz sequences, and layers of unpolished edits typical of every film as it through an extensive post production process. Over time via various social media posts we learned Darkseid was indeed intended to be the big bad, Superman’s black suit was to get screen time, Harry Lennix’s General Swanwick was Martian Manhunter in disguise the whole time, and the messy third act presented with a red hue was not the original plan.
“With the new platform and streaming services, you can have something like this. You can’t release something like this theatrically, but you could with a streaming service. It’s an opportunity that wasn’t there two years ago, to be honest,” Deborah Snyder, Justice League producer and Zack’s wife, told THR.
This HBO Max release will allow Snyder to assemble many of the original Justice League tech crew for the necessary post production finishing touches with a budget somewhere between $20-30 million. With finished visual FX, additional ADR from select members the cast, and Synder reassembling all his original footage, among the many other things we can thankfully look forward to is the exclusion of anything to do with #MustacheGate.
Whether the project is released as a four-hour super cut or retooled into a six-part mini series are both possibilities on the table.
SOURCE: THR
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