Snyder Has Said That He Did Not Pick Whedon as Reshoot Director
By George Robbins
This past weekend was a big weekend for comic book fans from all different kinds of backgrounds as it was the weekend of Justice Con and Comic-Con @ Home. The Comic-Con @ Home event was held in lieu of there not being an actual Comic-Con this year due to the pandemic. Among the biggest selling points for the convention was the fact that anybody could have watched the panels for free. For vendors they also had a virtual marketplace in order to allow people the chance to buy merchandise they would have only got at San Diego Comic-Con. Unfortunately, the pandemic didn’t just impact the fact that an in-person convention couldn’t be held but also what made it to the convention.
Due to the pandemic, studios have had to change the release dates of their movies and they’ve had to push the productions of their upcoming films. This has resulted in studios not really having anything to show to the public and therefore they didn’t have a panel for this year’s convention. One of the biggest panels that was skipped this year was the one for Marvel studios who suffered from just that. They had nothing new to show as they only just started up production again for ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings‘ and they already did marketing for ‘Black Widow‘ which left them with very little to end up showing off. They weren’t the only ones as Star Wars was nowhere to be seen at the convention.
Justice Con, on the other hand, proved to turn out pretty well for the most part and shed light on what was happening there. The reason for the existence of Justice Con was solely centered around the release of the Snyder Cut of the ‘Justice League‘ movie. The movie is set for its release on HBO Max some time in 2021, but there are still questions that people wanted the answers to in regards to the new cut of the film and the original film. Snyder himself part of the biggest panel that discussed things about the movie and its development as well as changes that happened to the original film. As many people know by now, after Snyder had to give up the director’s chair for personal reasons, there were reshoots done to the film which apparently changed the movie.
Snyder has made comments about how the movie was changed such as characters being cut from the and scenes not playing out the way he originally intended. He also admitted that this new version of the film is one he is doing for free to get his version of the film out into the world. When asked if he had a hand in picking Joss Whedon to be the movie’s new director after his departure he admitted that he had no hand in picking him as director. The biggest reason this was being asked as of late is due to accusations of Whedon being abusive towards those on his set while filming. People wanted to know if they had the same vision in mind when making the movie, and it now appears this was not the case.