Bob Strauss March 17, 2021Updated: March 20, 2021, 8:42 am
Ben Affleck (Batman) and Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) with director Zack Snyder. Photo: Clay Enos, HBO Max
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The same can now be said about comic book movies.
“Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” a four-hour cut of the original director’s DC superhero epic, premieres on HBO Max on Thursday, March 18. It’s an expanded version of the disappointing, two-hour-long “Justice League” movie that Warner Bros. released to theaters in November 2017.
Zack Snyder, who had overseen the studio’s DC Extended Universe launch with 2013’s “Man of Steel” and the 2016 “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” was the credited director of the “Justice League” movie, though it was well-known that Joss Whedon, who had helmed the first two “Avengers” films for Disney’s rival (and more successful) Marvel Cinematic Universe, extensively rewrote, reshot and took over the editing of the theatrical release.