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Zack Snyder's JUSTICE LEAGUE on HBO Max (3/18/21)
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Deborah Snyder downplayed the scale of Zack Snyder's Justice League reshoots in a new interview. After years of anticipation, Snyder is gearing up to release his four hour version of the 2017 film on HBO Max. When Joss Whedon took over the film during post-production, he significantly altered Snyder's version of the film in the hopes of making it more palatable for a wider audience. His work seems to have had the opposite effect, though, with Justice League being poorly received by critics and fans.

 

Now, Snyder has the chance to redeem everything he has been working on for the better part of a decade. Long seen as the architect of the DCEU, Snyder's Man of Steel kicked off film's second biggest cinematic universe. Since then, though, DC Films has been plagued by problems, culminating in what happened with Justice League. Warner Bros. decided to give Snyder the chance to restore his original version for the film with hours of unused footage and a budget for reshoots.

 

The reshoots, conducted in October 2020, included bringing back Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, and Ray Fisher, as well as Jared Leto's Joker and Harry Lennix as Martian Manhunter, but they may not haver been expansive as originally thought. According to Deborah Snyder, production only shot one full scene over three days. Snyder told  LightCast Podcast that fans may be under the impression that the reshoots were more than they actually are.

 

"People kept thinking ‘Oh, they went and shot so much more stuff.’ And I go ‘We literally shot one scene, like one additional scene. I shot three days here. That’s it. That’s what we captured."

 

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Warner Bros. has confirmed that Zack Snyder's Justice League will be released on March 18 globally, the same day as its release on HBO Max in the USA. The long-awaited director's cut of the DC Extended Universe movie was finally announced in May 2020, and its US release on HBO Max was confirmed for March 18 earlier this year.

 

But with the streaming service only available in the U.S., global fans were left wondering when they would get a chance to see it. Snyder himself has teased that he and the studio were working on plans to get the Snyder Cut distributed worldwide, but with less than a month to go, nothing had been officially announced.

 

On Friday, however, WB finally confirmed that fans will be able to see the film on the same day worldwide. That means Zack Snyder's Justice League will be released everywhere (except China, France, and Japan) on Thursday, March 18. The movie will be available on HBO Go in Europe and Asia, and will also be available via PVOD, HBO, on local TV outlets and via other digital video options all on that day. The release dates for China, France and Japan are still being determined, so fans there will have to wait a little longer.

 

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After years of campaigning, fans can't wait to see Zack Snyder's Justice League on HBO Max. Now we know precisely when the Snyder cut will debut. Before releases the trailer for the four-hour film, HBO Max announced that Zack Snyder's Justice League would debut on the streaming service on March 18th. Well, that isn't technically true, at least not if you live on the west coast of the United States.

 

According to Dan Barrett, Zack Snyder's Justice League will debut at 2 AM EST on HBO Max and will debut concurrently in other regions on partner platforms at the same time. That means that the film will be available to stream on March 17th at 11 PM PST.

 

That moment will be a victory for the "Release the Snyder Cut" crowd. They've campaigned since the studio cut of Justice League hit theaters to Snyder's version of the film in its full glory. Even Snyder admitted he didn't think it would ever happen.

 

 

Zack Snyder's Justice League will debut on March 18th on HBO Max.

 

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2 minutes ago, Oddball said:

I just realized something. The Bat tank was there the whole time?! And wasn’t used?!  

Like was recently shared by Deborah Snyder, pretty much this entire movie was in those 214 minutes that Joss Whedon then ignored and went his own path. Only about 5 minutes were the reshoots.

‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Features 2,650 New Visual Effects and Only One Newly-Shot Scene; Hear a Track From Junkie XL’s Score

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Technically speaking, Zack Snyder’s Justice League is going to be full of new scenes. But almost all of those scenes were already shot years ago, waiting to be finished via VFX work or color correction. But what about newly-shot scenes? How many of them are there in the film? The answer may surprise you! It’s one – the answer is one. And we already know what the one scene is: Jared Leto as the Joker, talking about how we live in a society. So what the heck else did Zack Snyder spend that reported $70 million on to finish the film? Producer Deborah Snyder might have that answer, as she revealed there’s something like 2,650 new visual effects in the movie. Meanwhile, the first track from Tom Holkenborg‘s (aka Junkie XL‘s) score is now available for your listening pleasure.

 

There it is – a nearly 7-minute track from Junkie XL’s score for Zack Snyder’s Justice League. As you might recall, Danny Elfman scored the theatrical cut of Justice League – but Junkie XL was announced as composer first. This move was, for many, the first sign of trouble with the production. When news of the replacement broke, Junkie XL released the following statement: “As my mentor Hans Zimmer told me — you haven’t made it in Hollywood as a composer until you get replaced on a project. So I guess finally graduated this week. It pains me to leave the project, but a big thanks to Zack for asking me to part of his vision…” That was in 2017. Now, four years later, Junkie XL is back with his own score for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the infamous Snyder Cut that fans have been waiting for.

 

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41 minutes ago, Bosco685 said:

Like was recently shared by Deborah Snyder, pretty much this entire movie was in those 214 minutes that Joss Whedon then ignored and went his own path. Only about 5 minutes were the reshoots.

‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Features 2,650 New Visual Effects and Only One Newly-Shot Scene; Hear a Track From Junkie XL’s Score

 

That track is powerful, added it to my iTunes gym playlist.

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Whoa! So both Christopher Nolan and Deborah Snyder saw the 2017 Justice League back then and agreed Zack should never see this cut. :whatthe:

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Zack Snyder, the director of Justice League, has never seen Justice League. His name is in the credits as the filmmaker, but he’s never sat through the version released to the world three years ago. His wife, Deborah, who produced the movie, advised him not to.

 

In late 2017—months after the couple cut ties with the superhero epic amid an increasingly demoralizing battle with Warner Bros.—Deborah Snyder sat in a screening room on the studio lot alongside Christopher Nolan, one of the movie’s executive producers, as well as the director of the Dark Knight trilogy. She braced herself as the lights went down. “It was just…it’s a weird experience,” she says now. “I don’t know how many people have that experience. You’ve worked on something for a long time, and then you leave, and then you see what happened to it.”

 

What happened to Justice League was a crisis of infinite doubt: a team of executives who lost faith in the architect of their faltering comic book movie empire, and a director in the midst of a family tragedy that sapped him of the will to fight. Joss Whedon, a director from another universe, the Marvel Cinematic one, left the Avengers after two movies and crossed over to comics rival DC, picking up Justice League not where Snyder left off, but remaking it significantly with extensive rewrites and hurried reshoots, just as the studio demanded.

 

On November 17, 2017, the team-up between Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, Aquaman, and The Flash didn’t so much debut in theaters as crash into them. It was sneered at by critics, shrugged at by baffled moviegoers, and all but disowned by those who created it. Whedon has since been accused of unprofessional and abusive behavior on set. (The director declined repeated requests for a comment.) He left his name off the movie except to claim a shared writing credit with Chris Terrio, who had written Snyder’s previous installment, 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

 

Publicly, everyone close to the movie practiced their smiles and rehearsed their talking points in the hopes of doing no further damage to the project, not that it helped much. The movie earned $657 million globally, which sounds like a lot of money until you consider the nearly $300 million budget, including the reported $25 million for Whedon’s reworking, plus a conservative estimate of $100 million to $150 million in marketing costs. Factor in the sizable cut theaters take from the box office, and a return of only $657 million is a clear money loser. Six months later, Justice League’s box office was dwarfed by Marvel’s own all-star showcase Avengers: Infinity War, which flexed its muscles at $2 billion.

 

After their private screening of the Whedon cut, Nolan and Deborah Snyder emerged into the light with a shared mission. “They came and they just said, ‘You can never see that movie,’” Zack Snyder says during lunch at his Pasadena office, a modernist series of cubes jutting from a hillside that overlooks the Rose Bowl.

 

“Because I knew it would break his heart,” his wife adds.

 

That might seem overly dramatic. It’s just show business, after all. But the Snyders’ hearts had already been through a lot. The battle over Justice League was agonizing, but it wasn’t the worst thing to happen to their family that year. Not even close.

 

Professionally at least, things have vastly improved. For years, DC fans and Snyder enthusiasts—who worshipped his high-octane brawn-fests like his Dawn of the Dead remake, his ancient Greek battle saga 300, and his twisted Watchmen adaptation—beat a drum on social media demanding, demanding, demanding that Warner Bros. return Justice League to its original filmmaker and allow him to share his version of the movie. They dubbed it the #SnyderCut. The fans could be clever, but many were horrifically toxic. All of them were relentless, and they grew more numerous over time. Last May, they finally got their wish when Warner saw the potential to leverage all the free publicity and do something unprecedented on its upstart streaming service, HBO Max.

 

It’s not uncommon for directors to lose creative control of big-budget studio spectacles, or for other filmmakers to step in. But it’s unheard of for a studio to return to an exiled filmmaker and offer back the power and creative freedom it has yanked away, especially when some of the most beloved and lucrative characters in pop culture history are involved. The #SnyderCut is coming on March 18.

 

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9 minutes ago, bpc3qh said:

I mean...that's kind of absurd. Leto's Joker has for sure been my least favorite Joker, and I would've been perfectly happy to never deal with him again.

Without seeing what the lead-in will be to this scene, hard to say if it truly is absurd or not.

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