Despite WarnerMedia and HBO Max throwing in millions Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the project will be a one-off affair, at least for now. Sunday morning, the New York Times shared a profile of DC Films head Walter Hamada, where the producer outlined his outfit’s plans for the near future. Noticeably absent from the plans are any subsequent steps to the Justice League Snyder Cut, in the form of sequels or spin-offs.
In fact, the Times Profile describes the project as a ‘cul-de-sac of storytelling’, making every effort to suggest that Snyder no longer has a place in DC Films’ future. “For now, Mr. Snyder is not part of DC Films’ new blueprint, with studio executives describing his HBO Max project as a cul-de-sac of stories – a street that leads nowhere,” Times’ Brooks Barnes writes.
That future, Hamada says, is a sprawling cinematic multiverse where filmmakers can use characters from any timeline their story requires.
The Snyder Cut was officially given the green light earlier this year after a yearlong campaign proved successful. Snyder and Warner Brothers initially clashed over his vision for the movie, a vision the studio found too dark.
“The truth is, the ‘Knightmare Sequence’ in this movie, it was my idea that all of that would eventually be explained – is that any surprise? And that we would end up in the distant future where Darkseid took over Earth, and where Superman has succumbed to the Anti-Life [Equation]”Snyder said about last year’s plague.” And there were a few members of the Justice League who survived the world and they fought, Batman and a broken half of Cyborg – there’s only half of him because of whatever happened – they worked on an equation to jump back to tell Bruce … those were the things we had to deal with. And the studio, they still kind of loved the big look, but the deep depth of how and why everyone was mad at each other … “
Zack Snyder’s Justice League will be released on HBO Max in March 2021.
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