When fans first started to put out the idea of the studio actually releasing The Snyder Cut of the hit film Justice League (looks at notes)…wait, it wasn’t a hit? Okay, when they first started to put out the idea of WB releasing The Snyder Cut of the universally-panned film Justice League, there wasn’t a lot of faith. Many outlets out there, including ours, thought it was a fool’s errand. That nothing would really come of it because of the great expense it would be for WB to actually make the darn thing.
And then it started to gain momentum. The movement was able to afford crazy things like billboards in New York Times Square and it even started to gain support from Snyder himself and actors Ray Fisher, Gal Gadot, and Ben Affleck. There were even rumblings that the studio was looking into potentially making it happen.
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However, a new report from Variety now indicates otherwise. According to the outlet, the logistics are just too great. This would likely require millions of dollars for visual effects and editing work, and given that the film was already a commercial bomb (the only one in the DCEU so far), they don’t see it as an option — even as an HBO Max release.
“That’s a pipe dream,” one insider told the outlet. “There’s no way it’s ever happening.”
There does seem to be a ridiculous amount of back and forth on this whole thing. While Jason Momoa and Kevin Smith claim there is a Snyder Cut, composer Danny Elfman has another story to tell.
“Well, the thing is, he never finished it,” Elfman told IndieWire of Snyder. “So, I don’t know quite how they’d do [a Snyder cut]. He had a tremendous tragedy, which forced him to not finish the film. I don’t quite understand this, because it wasn’t like he was fired, and that there is a Director’s Cut that is a finished movie and that the studio fired him and then hired Joss.”
“When Joss came on the film, he stepped in with only a few days notice, to pick up the helm because of this terrible, terrible tragedy that happened,” Elfman continued. “So it is kind of a unique situation. I mean, there is definitely other movies where the director was fired, and a studio radically changed the movie because they didn’t like it. And as a fan, you go ‘I wonder what the director did, before the studio changed the movie.’ But I’m not really aware of how that dynamic would really apply here.”
In short…we still don’t know. There’s at least a rumbling and interest, but whether or not there is anything to build off of or whether or not the studio is willing not…it seems to lean towards no. But, hey, crazier things have happened in Hollywood, right?
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