Snyder’s Cut Has A Budget of $70 Million Reportedly
By George Robbins
For those that haven’t been paying any attention to movie news as of late, Zack Snyder is in the midst of making a director’s cut for his version of ‘Justice League.’ Snyder was actually supposed to be the director for the film, but had to leave the project early for a personal matter. After much time was spent by fans trying to get his version of the film put out to the public, Warner Bros. finally relented and there will be a director’s cut releasing some time next year. The things is that there was never really meant to be any kind of director’s cut, but Warner wanted to appease fans in some way.
This isn’t necessarily a bad thing because it will both shut up the public and also make them a lot of money in the long run. The movie is being edited into a 4-part show with each part being about an hour long and it will premiere on HBO Max some time in early 2021. This gives people a good incentive to actually go and subscribe for the streaming service when the film launches. This has only ended up working out for them in the long run, and Snyder is apparently happy to be working on the film. What they are now hoping for is probably the fact that they will make back the money being spent on the new version.
While they already have pretty much all of the footage they need in order to complete a new version of the film, they still need to edit it properly. If people are going to get the version of the film that they want, they will have to wait for Snyder to edit it how he wants it done which takes a lot of work with stuff like CGI camera cuts. Basically, it is now mostly just digital processing and workarounds, but those are not cheap. Therefore they have apparently had to invest somewhere in the vicinity of $70 million in order to get the film to where they want it for release. Hopefully for Warner Bros. this version of the film will attract the amount of attention they are hoping for.