Zack Snyder is putting out new versions of both Justice League and Batman v Superman, but he’s leaving his first DCEU entry alone.
Director Zack Snyder is hard at work spending $70 million to remake 2017’s Justice League (director Joss Whedon finished the movie after Snyder had to leave due to a family emergency), which will now be a four-hour mini-series event on HBO Max, dropping sometime next year. That’s in addition to Snyder releasing an extended version of 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. With the director’s love for this kind of thing, fans might wonder if Snyder had any plans to alter his first entry into the DC Extended Universe, 2013’s Man of Steel.
Speaking on the Film Junkie Vodka Stream, Snyder says there are no plans to touch Henry Cavill’s introduction as Superman.
As Snyder explains, he sees no reason to re-edit Man of Steel. “That was like one of those movies that, for me, few and far between, maybe and Man of Steel are the two movies that I made that are pretty much — and actually Army (of the Dead) — where it was exactly what I wanted to do.”
"It just worked out that that was the length of the movie and it’s not a short movie either, Man of Steel, by the way. There was only a few scenes that we deleted, but it wasn’t anything that would change the movie. So the real answer is no. That movie is pretty much, it is what it is, and I love it. It’s kind of exactly the size that it was, for me, that I wanted it to be."
Given the circumstances of Snyder’s exit from Justice League, I can understand him wanting to remake that film, even I don’t get why Warner Bros. would agree to spend so much money on a film that that didn’t do that well on its first go-round. It strikes me as odd to want to redo either Batman v. Superman or Man of Steel. Happily, in the case of Man of Steel, Snyder appears to agree…
…for the moment.
Meanwhile, the hype for the Snyder Cut of Justice League continues to build, with Ben Affleck — Batfleck himself — posting a new image of Batman wrecking s**t.
Still no release date for the Snyder cut, but it feels like they’re building to it.
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