This Wednesday (20), something that until then was just a meme was confirmed as reality: the Warner Bros stated that it will release the "snyder cut” – a kind of “director’s cut” of the film Justice League (Justice League), which opened in 2017 in theaters around the world. This new version of the film will be released exclusively on HBO Max, the new movie and series streaming service from Warner, and will be available in 2021. 5k170
For now, it has not yet been defined which format will be used in the "snyder cut", and according to Deborah Snyder (director's wife Zack Snyder), the options being discussed are to release this new version as a single film lasting almost four hours, or in the format of a miniseries divided into six episodes.
Regardless of the format chosen, the cost to produce this new version – which will include not only a new edit of the film, but also the addition of a new soundtrack and changes to the special effects for many scenes – should be somewhere between $20 and $30. US$ XNUMX million.
Understanding the “Snyder Cut” 4w2b2c
Justice League it was one of the movies DCEU (DC's Expanded Universe, which is what the company calls the universe where all of its superhero movies that have been produced since The Man of Steel, 2013) that suffered the most from problems during production, and these problems are the basis of the entire story of the emergence of the “snyder cut".
As much as The Man of Steel e Batman vs Superman, the film Justice League should also have been directed by zach snyder, the director responsible for setting the entire tone and general narrative line that should be followed by the films of the DCEU. But with the death of his daughter in May 2017, snyder decided not only to relinquish his role as director of the film, but all his responsibilities in the DCEU so you can focus on your family's emotional recovery.
This occurred about six months before the film's theatrical release — that is, all the scenes had already been shot, and the film was already in its editing phase and adding special effects to finish the version of the story that would go to the theaters. screens. with the output of snyder, Warner Bros then ed the direction of the long to Joss Whedon, a director who had previously helped rewrite the film's screenplay and is recognized worldwide for his work with Marvel, in which he directed the first two films of the Avengers.
As soon as he took charge of the film, Joss Whedon needed to call the actors back for a series of re-recordings, as the material recorded by Zack Snyder had a very different vision of what he expected for the film. It was in these re-recordings that the first meme of Justice League, because at the time Henry Cavill (who played Superman) was already recording too Mission Impossible: Fallout, and couldn't shave off the mustache that was his character's trademark in the other film, forcing Warner to use special effects to digitally remove the actor's mustache in every scene of the reshoot.
When the film finally opened in theaters, the end result was quite different from what fans had expected, as the whedon abandoned all the emotional weight of each decision made by the characters – who always seemed to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders – that was a hallmark of the films of snyder. for the fans, Justice League it wasn't a movie DCEU, but a cheap copy of a film from Marvel that used characters from DC. Here in the showmetech, our review found the long fun to watch and without giving up the action.
And it was in this scenario that the first requests for the “snyder cut” — that is, the version of Zack Snyder of how the film should have ended. Until then, this was one of the biggest memes among movie fans, and despite the very low possibility of something like this existing — after all, never before has a director returned to finish a film that he himself abandoned — the request for a "snyder cut” always dominated the internet in any news involving the DCEU.
With confirmation that thesnyder cut” will finally come to fruition, it is clear that the internet has allowed us to enter a new phase of audiovisual production, where the public clamor for a product has as much weight in studio decision-making as projects by renowned actors and directors.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
