Zack Snyder’s Justice League “ends in a massive cliffhanger”

By now we all know the story of how Zack Snyder’s Justice League came to be. He worked on the original movie, had to leave partway through filming due to a family emergency, Joss Whedon took over, it came out to middling applause, and then fans started to cry for Warner Bros. to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut. I didn’t think it would happen…but it is. Zack Snyder’s redo of the movie, which runs for four hours and two minutes, comes out on HBO Max this month. Check out a new promo:

Slow pans over grey superhero statues while it rains and Tom Waits sings a dirge in the background? Whatever it else it ends up being, this superhero redux doesn’t look like it’ll be boring. It might be an over-indulgent disaster — I also direct your attention to Joker Jesus — but it won’t be boring.

And Snyder keeps giving us new info that either rings alarm bells or fulfills your deepest wishes, depending on what side of the hashtag you fall on. Speaking at IGN Fan Fest, the director revealed the movie “ends in a massive cliffhanger.”

If Zack Snyder’s Justice League ends on a cliffhanger, will there be a sequel?

“Well, it was meant to be two more movies,” Snyder said, remembering the time when Warner Bros. was trying out-Marvel Marvel and make the DCEU into a sprawling multiverse with Snyder at the helm. “It hints, as you would, at a potential other world. I’d plant the seeds as I had wanted to of what would come in the later films. That’s in there, but as far as those stories that would be to come — if ever that happened, which it does not look like it would — but I think it’s easy to speculate based on that and we can talk about that for quite a while.”

The big bad of the first Justice League movie is Steppenwolf, who’s on Earth on behalf of Darkseid, an even bigger bad Snyder was saving for the second movie. Darkseid has a much bigger presence in the Snyder Cut. “He’s running the show,” the director said. “He’s there. I don’t want to, again, spoil it but, yeah, he’s definitely there.”

As Snyder notes, a sequel to his movie isn’t likely to happen — since the original Justice League came out in 2017, Warner Bros. has pivoted direction and made more standalone and spin-off movies. You might think Snyder wouldn’t end his new movie on a cliffhanger if he knows it’s never going to get a sequel, but you saw the Tom Waits clip above; clearly the man does what he wants.

And honestly, I never thought the original Snyder Cut would become a thing either, so who’s to say what’ll happen down the line? We’ll see how Zack Snyder’s Justice League does when it drops on HBO Max on March 18.

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h/t The A.V. Club