The Snyder Cut will have only “four or five” minutes of new footage
By Dan Selcke
The Snyder Cut will be over four hours long, but while there will be a lot of stuff we haven’t seen before, not much of it will be NEW, if you get me.
Warner Bros. is spending $70 million on the Snyder Cut, Zack Snyder’s epic, four-plus hour revamp of his 2017 movie Justice League, which will be out on HBO Max early near year. We’ve heard that he’s been shooting new stuff with cast members Ben Affleck (Batman), Ray Fisher (Cygorg), Amber Heard (Mera) and even Jared Leto, who played the Joker in 2016’s Suicide Squad. It sounds like there could be a whole lot of new stuff in there.
And there will be, but most of it will be touched-up footage cut from the original film. As for brand new stuff, Snyder tells Beyond The Trailer that there’s only “four or five minutes of additional photography…for the entire movie.”
It just goes to show you how much money it can take to restart a production on a movie this huge, even if only for a few new minutes of footage. That also means that Jared Leto’s Joker probably isn’t going to have a huge role or anything, more like a cameo to show how things are different in the movie’s “Knightmare” timeline. According to Snyder, this Joker will be “road weary.”
If the Snyder Cut is a success, perhaps Zack Snyder could be back in the director’s chair for more DC projects? And if he is, he knows just want he’d want to make: a proper movie version of Frank Miller’s classic comic book The Dark Knight Returns, which already served as inspiration for his 2016 film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
“I am still obsessed with that comic book,” Snyder said while speaking with The Nerd Queens. “I always had this fantasy, that I go, ‘Ok, maybe in a couple years down the road I just one-off — I just do Dark Knight Returns with some crusty, old Batman.’”
"It’s just a great [story]. I’ve ripped it off so much, that I’ve almost done it, but I do feel like I’ve only homaged it. I haven’t really taken the heart of it … People haven’t really experienced it as a movie, that story. It still can be made."
Snyder has already taken Batman to a darker, grittier place than many before him…too dark and gritty, some say, to the point where it seems like parody. But clearly, that’s where Snyder’s heart lies. On on the set of Batman v Superman, Snyder told Ben Affleck, “‘‘Ben, you’re not the classic monk warrior Batman. You’re more broken than that in the sense that you drink too much, you take painkillers, you f*** to forget.'”
That’s heavy, man.
Finally, Snyder stopped by TheFilmJunkee YouTube channel (he sure is doing a lot of these interviews) to reveal that while the Snyder Cut is closer to his original vision for the movie that Justice League was in 2017, it’s still pretty far away from his “ideal version”:
"My ideal version of the movie is the black and white IMAX version of the movie. That, to me, is the most fan-centric, most pure, most Justice League experience. Because that’s how I lived with the movie for two years, in black and white…when I do the live-stream of the trailer, Steph and I colored a black and white version of the trailer."
So prepare the Snyder Cut of the Snyder Cut sometime in 2022.
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