Despite the fact that WarnerMedia and HBO Max threw millions Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the project is shaping up to be a unique business, at least for now. Sunday morning, New York Times shared a profile of DC Films director Walter Hamada, where the producer presented his outfit plans for the foreseeable future. Visibly absent from the plans are tracked to Justice League Snyder Cut, either in the form of sequels or spinoffs.
Actually, Times The profile describes the project as a “storytelling bag”, going so far as to suggest that Snyder has no place in the future of DC Films. “At least for now, Mr. Snyder is not part of the new DC Films scheme, with studio directors describing his HBO Max project as a storytelling cul-de-sac – a street that leads nowhere.” Times’ Brooks Barnes writes.
This future, says Hamada, is an extended cinematic multiverse, in which filmmakers can use characters from the horizons required by their story.
Snyder Cut was officially green-lighted earlier this year after a years-long campaign proved successful. Snyder and Warner Brothers initially clashed with his vision for the film, which the studio considered too dark.
“The truth is that the ‘Knightmare sequence’ in this film, it was my idea that all this will be explained in the end – is it a surprise? And that we will reach the distant future where Darkseid took over Earth and where Superman gave in to Anti-Life [Equation]”Snyder said about teasing last year.” And there were a few members of the Justice League who survived that world and were fighting, Batman and the broken half of the Cyborg – there are only half of him because of what happened – were working on an equation to jump back to tell him Bruce … those were the things we were dealing with. And the studio, they were still a little depicted, but the deep depth of how and why everyone was upset with each other … “
Zack Snyder’s Justice League will arrive on HBO Max in March 2021.
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