HBO Max has taken down the trailer for the Snyder Cut over “music rights issues.”
The Snyder Cut — director Zack Snyder’s updated, four-hour version of his DC superhero team-up movie Justice League — is still coming to HBO Max sometimes next year. But there’s been a small snag: HBO Max itself has removed the August trailer for the movie — the one set to Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” that old montage standby — from YouTube, although you can still watch it at the end of the DC FanDome Panel on the movie. Shhh, don’t tell anyone:
And why has HBO Max removed the trailer? According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Aaron Couch, it’s over “music rights issues,” although he expects it to go back on YouTube once the problem is resolved.
So did Snyder and co just cut the trailer to “Hallelujah” without getting the rights first? Snyder is a huge fan of that song; anyone who saw his 2009 adaptation of Watchmen might remember he played it over a sex scene between Nite Owl and Silk Spectre…to somewhat cringeworthy results. I’ll stick to the Shrek rendition myself.
Clearly, the song is a hot commodity among filmmakers. Hopefully things get worked out before the movie is released, reportedly in multiple parts. They better be; otherwise what music is gonna play over all the new montages Snyder has planned?
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