Some are about 20 minutes long, others closer to an hour. Zack Snyder’s Justice League is curiously divided into “parts” with interstitial title cards there are six parts (this review has fewer) followed by an epilogue. Second thing to get out of the way: Breaking this review up into sections wasn’t my idea. But the new edit also isn’t quite a movie. Let’s get the biggest question out of the way first: Yes, Zack Snyder’s Justice League is better than the theatrical cut of the film. It is, however, endlessly fascinating to think about.
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That sequel was doomed, though, and the movie we have now doesn’t necessarily make a good argument for it. Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a roughly assembled four-hour version of the movie he likely set out to make - one that was, according to those initial plans, guaranteed a sequel. It was a big, audacious plan to reverse-engineer a competitor’s success, entrusted to a man who could not have been any more different from that competitor. There are a lot of ways to read Zack Snyder’s Justice League - as a filmmaker’s passion project, a work of restorative justice geared toward righting wrongs, as a case study in the symbiosis of corporate opportunism and toxic fandom, as a swan song for the DC Extended Universe - but mostly, it’s a monument to the corporate hubris of October 2014.
conducted an internal investigation and, in a statement, said it has taken “ remedial action.” No one has said what that means, and perhaps no one ever will - for his part, Fisher has said he is not satisfied with the result. While Fisher has declined to cite many specifics, Warner Bros. Fisher has also accused DC Entertainment then-president Geoff Johns and producer Jon Berg of enabling Whedon. Since last summer, actor Ray Fisher, who plays the mechanically enhanced hero Cyborg in the film, has said that Whedon exhibited “abusive and unprofessional” behavior on the set during reshoots. That sense of disaster extended to his behind-the-scenes conduct, a still-unresolved scandal that has overtaken discussion about the film.
At the same time, Snyder suffered a terrible personal tragedy in the death of his daughter Autumn, and made the decision to leave the film rather than engage in a long creative struggle.įollowing Snyder’s exit, Justice League was handed off to Avengers writer/director Joss Whedon, who rewrote and reshot significant portions of the film, to mostly disastrous results. After two previous Zack Snyder DC films, Man of Steel and Batman v Superman, failed to match the impossible billion-dollar revenues of The Avengers, Warner Bros., according to Snyder, began to push back on his plans. The failure of Justice League’s theatrical release and the collapse of the initial DC film universe around it has made it one of the most infamous productions in the modern era of superhero cinema. Film studios make plans, and Darkseid laughs. Looking at the news release today, it seems hilarious in its hubris - while six of those 10 movies did come out, and a seventh ( The Flash) does seem like it will happen, it’s safe to say that the intended plan for all of them was initially very different. announced its long-awaited response to the Marvel Cinematic Universe: 10 DC films, kicking off with 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and concluding with a Green Lantern reboot planned for 2020.
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