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If Zack Snyder had been able to shoot his intended take on “Justice League”, it would’ve been a much different movie than the version – Joss Whedon partly directed – released in theaters.
According to the filmmaker, his darker, grittier version of the film wasn’t shot but it was mapped out to a tee – and you’ll spot remnants of it in the current version.
“The original Justice League that Chris [Terrio] and I wrote, we didn’t even shoot,” Snyder confirmed at a screening of “Batman v Superman” this past weekend. “The actual idea, the hard, hard idea, the scary idea, we never filmed because the studio was like ‘That’s crazy.'”
“When this movie came out, understand that Chris Terrio and I had finished the script to Justice League before Batman v Superman came out. Some people didn’t like the movie. A vocal minority. So they said ‘There’s a lot of stuff we don’t want you to do,’ so we did a rewrite from that script.”
Before he was forced to tweak the script, Snyder said the film went much deeper than the thin farce that hit screens.
For starters, the “Knightmare” sequence that was in “Batman v. Superman”, says the filmmaker, was his idea but it would “eventually be explained” in the new film.
We would’ve ended up in the “distant future, where Darkseid has taken over Earth…[and] a few members of the Justice League that had survived in that world…were fighting.”
With Superman now an ‘anti-life’ being, Cyborg and Batman would send The Flash back in time – with a message for Bruce Wayne (“Lois is the key”) – so they could fix things.
Apparently Lois Lane would end up dead, which is why Superman ends up becoming all ‘anti-life’ later on. It would be up to Bruce Wayne to protect her and make sure that never happens.
The Flash would reportedly appear moments before Lois would be killed by Darkseid, thus preventing the bleak future in the ‘Knightmare’ sequence.
So sad we didn’t get to see this film, it sounds super-fun, even in it’s various complex entanglements.
As reported earlier today, Snyder does confirm that his cut of the movie – never released – does exist, but it’s not the version above.
