“There IS a Snyder cut”, according to Kevin Smith

“I’ve not seen it firsthand,” Smith, who has directed several episodes of DC’s slate of small-screen efforts including “Supergirl” and “The Flash”, confirmed. “I’ve spoken now to enough people at various levels in that production. There IS a Snyder cut. For sure. That’s not a mythical beast. It exists. Now, it’s not a finished movie by any stretch of the imagination. There were things that went away from the story that they shot that didn’t wind up going into (visual) effects or anything like that.”

“So I would assume, based on what I’ve been told, that large sections of that Snyder Cut are, you know, pre-viz (with) a lot of green screen,” he continued. “We’re not talking a finished movie…the one I’ve heard everyone speak of was never a finished film. It was a movie that people in production could watch and fill in the blanks. It was certainly not meant for mass consumption.”

Smith offers the suggestion of having Snyder appear during those missing scenes to explain what was meant to happen there.

Snyder, who departed “Justice League” part-way through due to a family tragedy, has confirmed numerous times that he didn’t even shoot many of the rumored scenes said to be in his version of the film.

“The original Justice League that Chris [Terrio] and I wrote, we didn’t even shoot,” the filmmaker said recently. “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.”

Despite this, fans have been clamoring WB to release the so-called ‘Snyder Cut’ – even going so far as to pool enough money together to have a plane fly over San Diego Comic-Con in July, urging the studio to release the film.