![]() ![]() Which is why these multi-year film slates usually don't work out. We're all speculating here but it does seem that Snyder would have had a large task to bring his vision together especially with middling results.Īll fair points. If they waited to see how JL2 did first, as J元 didn't actually have a release date and JL2 was another movie that left money on the table, we could have stopped at that movie instead. But maybe they would have held on and pushed to 2022. And if it were back to back, you'd have the issue of releasing in 2021 during the end of the pandemic but after HBO Max made a decision to release all their movies in 2021. Something Snyder has struggled in doing with $225+ budgets. It would have at least needed $1B to even warrant a sequel and probably closer to Avengers numbers to do a JL2/J元 back to back. It would have probably been 2 hours and 45 minutes to 3 hours. Even if they triple downed on him for JL, we wouldn't have had a 4 hour JL movie. We're talking a lot of ifs and ands for JL2 and J元 to be released at least close to Snyder's original vision. ![]() It invites variation and reconsideration. These comic book films are very broad, general adaptations of hundreds of stories. I understand not liking something because you don't think it works for the story it's telling in context, but not liking something because it's simply different than the general source material? That's weird to me.Īnd this isn't the same as, say, Dune, which is an adaptation of a very specific story. It wasn't trying to be an endless series where Batman doesn't age for 80 years and fights crime forever. It's like those that complain that Batman "dies" and secretly retires at the end of The Dark Knight Rises. They'd start a new Batman series again, because they always do. It seems like some fans think that if that J元 ending happened that they'd never get another Batman or Superman on screen ever again. Some comic fans, like myself, are also cinema fans and recognize the differences in the medium allow for things like "story conclusions". Some fans, like myself, like a variety of takes and approaches. The only film with zero WB interference was Man of Steel, so hard to know what the reception would have been if a longer cut closer to the BvS UE length was released theatrically, for example. His vision of these classic characters already struggled at the BO and critically without Warner Bros. Heroes In Crisis and Flashpoint went over badly with fans, both are similar to Zachs outline. ![]() So, the general idea was the same, but some of the details and much of the structure of when certain scenes happened had changed over the course of shooting BvS and JL. It had some tweaks along the way, including flipping which movie was mostly set in the Knightmare, which had been moved to mostly be in JL2. It's very stupid.Īgain, this was the original plan before BvS was even shot. Then the final battle would be the JL leading the armies of Earth, Atlantis, and Themyscira in a big battle against Darkseid.Īlso there's a "who's the daddy" subplot where Lois is pregnant and she doesn't know if it's Clark's or Bruce's baby. They'd use the Flash's time travel abilities to send a message back in time to prevent the bad future from happening, which leads Bruce to sacrifice himself in the past to save Lois, thus preventing Superman from succumbing to the Anti-Life Equation. The third film would have picked up five years later and focused on the team of survivors we see in the epilogue of ZSJL, though Joker and Deathstroke would've been replaced by a Green Lantern and Deadshot. Darkseid then kills Lois, allowing him to use the Equation to take over Superman's mind and, from there, the Earth. They'd launch attacks on Atlantis and Themyscira, killing Aquaman and Wonder Woman, while Lex gives the Equation to Darkseid. Justice League 2 would've been about Lex leading an "Injustice League" preparing for Darkseid's arrival. ![]()
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