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By George Robbins

There has been a lot going on in the world of DC at this moment in time and, given what we’ve learned over the past couple of months, this will not stop any time soon. Ever since the pandemic began we have been hearing about all kinds of DC news and about movies that are currently in the works in some way or another. Not too long after the start of the pandemic, Warner launched their premiere streaming service HBO Max which has been doing a solid job since its launch and with it they brought news of something fans have only really been dreaming of. That something would just so happen to be the long-awaited launch plans for the upcoming Snyder Director’s Cut for the ‘Justice League’ movie. Fans have been awaiting this version of the film for a long time now and we are finally getting the chance to see it be made.

The original ‘Justice League‘ movie was released back in 2017 and it was originally directed by Joss Whedon. While the movie managed to do well financially, it did not turn out as fans expected it to and the movie was not well-received on a critic-basis. Ever since the release of the film, fans have had the idea in their minds that this was not the version of the film that they were originally meant to end up with. With this idea in their minds, they decided to start petitioning Warner Bros. to release the true version of the film made by the original director for the film, Zack Snyder. Snyder was working on the film before he unfortunately had to step away from the director’s chair due to a tragic passing in his family.

Zack Snyder, as every fan knew, was the man behind the ‘Man of Steel‘ film which kicked off Warner’s DC Extended Universe, or DCEU. While this shared universe may not have been as financially successful as its Marvel predecessor thus far, it has still managed to bring in a fair bit of money as time has gone on. With that in mind, the films still fair pretty well at the box office and they manage to do pretty well critically. People have come to appreciate the “darker side” aspect of the DCEU since its inception, and fans have realized that Snyder can deliver it fairly well. This is why fans have been wanting to see his version of the film as they knew that if he was in charge of it, then it would have turned out very different from the film we got. Ever since the announcement that he would be putting his version of the film on HBO Max, fans have been excited for its release.

While the movie will be releasing on HBO Max, there are a lot of changes that we will apparently be seeing between the two versions of the story. Perhaps the biggest and most noticeable difference we have learned about is the fact that the film will actually be turned into a 4-part mini-series instead of a 4-hour film. This was something that was discussed during the all-online DC fan event, aptly named DC FanDome where the movie, as well as many other DC details, were discussed at length. Even after that fan event many more details about the impending director’s cut’s release have been made public. This has all served to make fans more and more excited about what seems to be an entirely new “film” for the DCEU.

Fans should absolutely not count on this being a DCEU film, however, because it has already been confirmed that whatever we end up witnessing on screen is not going to be canon. That being said, they seem to be pulling out all of the stops with more than just some special effects editing being done on the film. It turns out that even recently, Snyder has been doing reshoots for the film in order to create entirely new scenes that will be a part of the film. There are now things that will be a part of the film that no one would have ever expected there to be and it is growing into this thing that no DC fan would ever want to miss out on. Some of the more interesting content we have been finding out about is the fact that the film will be adding in characters that were missing from the original film.

We have recently found out that the film will actually include some scene, or scenes, that include the Joker from ‘Suicide Squad.’ That’s right, Jared Leto’s iteration of the Joker is set to make some kind of appearance in the upcoming Snyder Cut of ‘Justice League.’ The movie ‘Suicide Squad’ was not received well by anyone, but there has been a lot of information coming out that studio interference is the reason for why that movie ended up how it did. With the studio calling for apparently constant reshoots to make the film more appealing, not much of the original film was left by the end of filming. This news became public not long after the announcement of the Snyder Cut and the ‘Suicide Squad’ director David Ayer has put out his own petition for a director’s cut to release for his film.

While it is still not known if we will get to see a director’s cut of ‘Suicide Squad,’ especially with the spiritual sequel ‘The Suicide Squad‘ coming up, we will get to see the Joker on screen soon. It was officially confirmed that he will have his part to play in the upcoming Snyder cut and we will hopefully get to see more of what was promised when ‘Suicide Squad’ came out. When it first released, we heard all about Leto’s insane method acting, but his performance didn’t get a chance to shine on screen because most of his scenes were cut from the film. With his appearance in ‘Justice League’ perhaps Leto’s Joker will actually end up being one that fans fall in love with. All we have to do now is wait and see if this ends up becoming a reality when the movie releases some time early next year on HBO Max.