Zack Snyder Has Expressed Interest In Doing A ‘Dark Knight Returns’ Movie
By George Robbins
Hollywood is abuzz for many a reason at the moment whether that be due to scandal, as per usual, or due to the developments currently in play for many upcoming films. There are a lot of films that actually just got started up once again not too long ago after months of waiting to finally get everyone and their equipment back on set. Beyond just being able to get people back on set, they had to wait for the proper conditions as they had to wait for local and foreign governments to allow them back onto the set to begin with. That is not all that is going on in the world of movie development and production as it seems there are plenty of newer projects being worked on as well. Things seem to never calm down in Hollywood as there are new movies being drafted up everyday and because people have been trapped inside or on their own for so long, there are now more than usual.
People always get excited when they hear about possible new movie releases showing up in the not-too-distant future, especially when it is something that would interest them. As of late, there have been a lot of discussions about future comic book character interpretations and those talks don’t seem like they will be dying down at any point in the near future. Most of this new discussion comes from the fact that people found out earlier this year that director Zack Snyder would actually be putting out his version of the ‘Justice League’ movie. His version of the film is one that fans have been after for a long time now and the announcement that it was going to be real sent tons of fans into an excitement phase. All fans of DC characters and the DCEU films quickly became excited by the prospect of seeing the film how they believe it should have been done.
When the ‘Justice League’ movie was in production, Snyder was the original director on the film and he was making it to be in-line with his previous films that he directed. Unfortunately, partway through the filming process, he had to leave the production because of a family tragedy and the movie was handed off to director Joss Whedon. Whedon decided not to go along with his original plans and instead reshot a large number of scenes from the film to try and make the movie his way. The end result was an alright film, but many fans were just disappointed in the end due to the fact they felt it was not the film they should have ended up with. Thus began the petitioning from fans that would see Zack Snyder’s version of the movie come to fruition instead of sitting off in the wings somewhere.
Apparently that petitioning from fans managed to pay off in the end because those fans would go on to rejoice as the Snyder Cut for ‘Justice League’ was announced when HBO Max launched. The new Snyder Cut version of the film is set up to be a four part mini-series where each episode is an hour long; making the overall new version of the film about 4 hours in length. This has further hyped up the movie for fans and people are getting more excited for this version of the film, but fans of the DCEU as a whole are faced with a bit of sadness. Apparently the Snyder version of the film will not be the version that is canon to the whole film series like some people were hoping it would be. That being said, fans are most definitely looking forward to seeing the movie when it finally gets to release some time early next year.
It is pretty evident to people everywhere that Zack Snyder does care about the characters that he has been given the reins over and he wants to make a film he and fans will be proud of. This is why it is even more exciting to fans when he spoke recently about wanting to possibly do a Dark Knight Returns storyline in his version of the DCEU. This storyline sees Bruce Wayne return with the cape on when he is much older to try and defend the people of Gotham once again and it ends with Bruce finally hanging up his cape for good by staging his own death. It is a storyline that people have been wanting to see for years and some are now hoping Snyder could possibly bring that storyline to the big screen. Even if it is a long time off, it would still be something that is fascinating to see.