The Snyder Cut Seems Like It Is Making Some Big Changes
By George Robbins
This year has been an interesting one thus far, but mainly for all of the wrong reasons due to the pandemic we have all found ourselves trapped in. The pandemic is responsible for the shut down of countless businesses and has made it extremely difficult for those businesses to once again open their doors to the public. This has become something of a recurring issue throughout the past 8 months now and it will continue to be challenging as time rolls on. The truth of the matter is that, until the pandemic ends, businesses will not be able to return to their original functioning selves. There is no industry where this has become more clear than in the movie industry.
Whether it be movie theaters or just movie studios themselves coming up with ways of making money during this time, things are rough for everyone. In fact, movie theaters are the center point for a lot of the problems we are currently seeing in the movie industry because they can’t seem to draw in audiences right now. In order to deal with this fact, almost all movies that were meant to release this year were pushed out of this year’s line-up by the movie studios producing them. Those that haven’t been are either hopeful that people will change their minds suddenly and decide to go to the movies during a pandemic, or they are giving them digital releases. Whether it be their own streaming service or a service they have a contract with, studios are definitely thinking about digital releases.
One of the studios that has really been thinking about how to release their films as of late has been Warner Bros. who are still kind of dealing with the failure of ‘Tenet’s’ release. While the movie was reviewed pretty well, people just haven’t been willing to put their own health at risk to go and see the movie. As such, they are very willing to put a lot of their focus in HBO Max, their premiere streaming service. To further elaborate on this new focus they released pretty much all of their available content onto the service just like Disney did with Disney+. In order to draw even more attention to the service, they even made the announcement that the Snyder Cut for Justice League would be hitting the service some time in early 2021.
The Snyder Cut for ‘Justice League‘ is the director’s cut that fans have been waiting for since the release of the theatrical version of the film back in 2017. We knew immediately that this version would be more than the original version of the film ever was, especially after we found out that this special re-release was given a $70 million budget to work with. This made fans all the more excited for this upcoming release, but there is plenty more to be excited for, especially since the movie is actually going to be a four-part series shown in one hour increments on the service. On top of this, Snyder recently revealed that he is doing reshoots with a lot of the character in the film in order to fit more perfectly into the story he wants to tell. Certainly, this may just end up being the movie that we originally wanted back in 2017, and now we just need to wait a few more months for it.