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'Justice League' Stars Demand Release of Director Zack Snyder's Original Cut (ew.com) 40

Posted by EditorDavid from the #releasetheysnydercut dept.
"On the 2-year anniversary of DC and Warner Bros.' Justice League, Wonder Woman and Batman themselves have joined fans' calls for the release of director Zack Snyder's cut of the much-maligned 2017 film," reports Entertainment Weekly: Both Ben Affleck and Gal Gadot tweeted "#ReleaseTheSnyderCut" on Sunday, with Gadot also posting a photo of her character, Diana Prince/Wonder Woman... Affleck and Gadot joined other DC actors, like Ray Fisher (Cyborg) and Christina Wren (Major Carrie Farris), who posted on social media for the anniversary to demand the release of Snyder's original vision for Justice League...

Jason Momoa and director Kevin Smith added fuel to the fire this summer after they said they've either seen the Snyder cut or heard about it from reliable sources. In August, Momoa posted an Instagram video with Snyder, saying the director had shown him the cut and that it was "ssssiiicccckkkkkk." Smith was less complimentary, saying the cut was "not a finished movie by any stretch of the imagination."

Still, it is a big deal that Justice League's own stars are calling for a redo of sorts.
Momoa, who plays Aquaman, said in early November "I think the public needs to see it," according to CNET. But The Hollywood Reporter isn't convinced that will happen.

"Despite the groundswell, and speculation that a Snyder Cut could go to Warner Bros.' upcoming streaming service HBO Max, insiders tell The Hollywood Reporter no announcement of a release of a Snyder Cut is imminent.
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'Justice League' Stars Demand Release of Director Zack Snyder's Original Cut

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  • âoessssiiicccckkkkkkâoe (sic)

  • I think we can really monetize this opportunity (Score:4, Funny)

    by SuperKendall ( 25149 ) on Sunday November 17, 2019 @10:43PM (#59424862)

    Hear me out on this one - the Snyder Cut Streaming Service, all Snyder cuts, all the time.

    You can name it "CutZ".

    Do you truly support the Snyder cut release? Prove it for just $5/month. After the first month Snyder will recut other movies too, as voted on by the public.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      Blade Runner was the first movie to really show how director's cuts could be profitable for studios. They found they could endlessly re-release different versions of the same movie with slight changes, a few extra seconds here or there.

      Thing is they aren't always better. Watchmen wasn't bad but the director's cut was badly paced with a tacked-on side plot that was rightly cut from the original.

  • It'll still suck (Score:4, Insightful)

    by ChromeAeonuim ( 1026946 ) on Monday November 18, 2019 @01:00AM (#59425100)
    The Justice League movie was hot garbage, and I have yet to hear anything about this mythical Snyder cut to convince me that it will salvage it. I didn't think they'd screw up one of the biggest comic book properties of all time, when there's years of material to draw from, but there it is.

    Batman vs Superman was awful, the set up of the DC cinematic universe was completely botched, they've clearly been trying to play catch-up with the Marvel movies (poorly), and what do they want to do now? A Harley Quinn movie! A Black Canary movie would be great if they want to introduce League characters, but nah, they're going to waste another movie, like they did with Suicide Squad, which so badly wanted tp be GotG but failed in every way.

    And I'm saying this as someone who wants to see a well one DC movie series, I really do. Shazam might have been a one off, but I don't have high hopes at this point, and all these people acting as if the Snyder cut will change that are saying that a slightly different shaped turd is suddenly going to stop being a turd.

    • That's my impression too, people want the Snyder cut not because they know it's better but because the Whedon cut kinda sucked and they're after anything that isn't the Whedon cut.

      It may be that, when released, the Snyder cut is even worse...

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      Snyder is the problem here. Wonder Woman was pretty good, Aquaman and Shazam were fun. The Nolan Batman trilogy was excellent. There are plenty of good stories and talented people to bring them to the screen.

      DC characters are harder to work with than Marvel ones in general. Guys like Superman are so OP it's hard to present them with real danger without it becoming too ridiculous. Man of Steel almost managed it but needed better writing. It's why a lot of the better Superman stories focus on his relationship

      • Aquaman was pretty terrible to someone not already familiar with the story, and it was a hot mess of mediocre CG.

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    • No director can save a story with a generic CGI villain without any form of motivation, attempting to destroy the world with a McGuffin box, defended by a dead pan boring cast without clear character development, and do so with a movie that just demands whatever happens it end up with epic destruction in the process.

      Aquaman in my opinion was great. The story at least somewhat makes sense. A director can't save a story which makes no sense.

  • Are Bats and Supes gonna kill folks in this cut? Do we get to see what few amazons survived get sexually assaulted by aliens?

    The as bad as the JL movie really was, it was far and away better than 'Superman vs. Batman'.

    The DCCU is just better off without Snyder.

  • Surely the actors are generating some ill will with the studios by agitating about this. Or, the studio is in on it and wants to sell more DVDs with the "ssssiiicccckkkkkk" Snyder cut.
  • Fuck, how good can a comic book film really be? Does it tell a better, tighter, more impactful story of is it just flashier with more big bangs I wonder.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by EvilSS ( 557649 )
      It would be interesting to see what the original director had intended. The film WB released (re-helmed by Joss Whedon with what I'm sure was plenty of interference by WB) was a mess. Not saying it will be better, I didn't agree with Synder's take on the previous films, but I would like to see where he was going with Justice League.

    • Has there ever been a director's cut that was shorter?

  • I am pretty much over the entire comic-book-superhero genre for now. Overkill. Excess. Repetitive.

    I loved comic books when I was a kid, and it was a lot of that nostalgia that fueled my interest in the occasional comic book movie. The Avengers saga changed that. By the time Thanos showed up, I was ready for it to be over. I even skipped that last couple of Spider-Man movies, and Spider-Man was my all-time favorite superhero in the comics.

    Like a child who has gorged himself on Halloween candy, the whole thi

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Zocalo ( 252965 )
      Same boat here - "all candy diet" is a good way of looking at it. The highly variable quality of DC movies hasn't helped, but the real culprit in my current comicbook movie burn-out is Marvel, with DC mostly being a victim of collateral damage; even having skipped most of the "non-arc" movies in the MCU I think I could still have done with several less movies between Iron Man and Endgame. For someone who wasn't a big comic book fan, and so probably missed a lot of in-jokes and references, once I take the

  • Kevin Smith talked about some of the reported changes on Fatman Beyond podcast/show a couple years ago, between the original Zach Snyder cut and the released version after Joss Whedon reshoots, which was confirmed largely by a woman in the audience that saw an early cut:

    https://youtu.be/MU3-FDFM_wM?t... [youtu.be] If the link doesn't work, go to the 1:56 mark.

    This appears to be what he was reading.

    https://cinemacure.wordpress.c... [wordpress.com]

    Sounds like a much better movie.

  • I doubt any other cut of the movie is really going to help it get better reviews. It wasn't very good.

  • The only way I can think of making it better is to entirely remove Ben Affleck.

  • Don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed watching some of his movies. But the only one he directed which made me look forward to a future installment was "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole". In fact, thinking on that makes me wonder if he suffers from an "uncanny valley" effect - when his characters are plausibly human, the fact that they interact as stylistic choices rather than real humans really sticks out.

    He definitely can create amazing scenes, which would be GREAT if he was just creating short

    • He definitely can create amazing scenes, which would be GREAT if he was just creating short art projects where you could structure the story around that scene

      Just like Michael Bay, Zack Snyder got his start in music videos.

      They're both great at creating cool, visually impressive scenes. And they both suck at telling a compelling story. They're the poster boys for style over substance.

    • Zak the Hack sucks rocks.
  • Wack Zack shouldn't be allowed within 10 inches of others' IP until he can successfully create his own.
  • It almost feels like they are trying to do some kind of viral marketing.

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