Snyder is Finishing His Cut for Free
By George Robbins
Warner Media’s ‘Justice League’ movie is regarded by many to be a film that was not what fans expected it to be. Much of the film felt different from how fans expected it to be which made many think that the film was interfered with in some way. Even if it wasn’t interfered with, the fact remains that part way through the production, director Zack Snyder had to step down from the directing chair. His family had to unfortunately cope with a family crisis and he could no longer remain director so it was handed over to Joss Whedon. After Whedon took over as director it became known that there were many reshoots that were done to the film before its release. This is why many fans decided that it really was studio interference and they petitioned for Snyder to release his film as intended.
Just a couple of months ago, Snyder confirmed that he was actually working on a director’s cut of the film based on his vision of how the film would work. This version of the film was referred to by fans simply as the Snyder Cut and it was speculated to have existed by fans for a couple of years. That being said, the Snyder Cut version of the film is only now being worked on and it will end up on HBO Max some time next year. What needed to be done before the movie released was that Snyder has to put in his own footage that he planned on using and he also has to put in his own VFX. He was given a budget to work on the new cut of the film, but that didn’t really answer a question people had.
This past weekend was the weekend that the Comic-Con @ Home convention had taken place and it saw a few different things being discussed. Among those things was the Snyder Cut which was thought unlikely because Snyder is attending DC’s own event next month, DC FanDome. It would be expected that this is where we would see more information about the film. However, it would seem that Snyder just wanted to share what he could about his upcoming release. One of the big questions on people’s minds was whether he was getting paid to work on this new version of the film. The answer to which was no and he was, in fact, making the movie of his own volition and he is not getting paid for working on it.