Zack Snyder’s Justice League, AKA the “Snyder Cut”, will arrive on HBO Max.
Its release marks a watershed moment in the world of pop culture, not just for Zack and Deborah Snyder, who got the chance to complete their film on their own terms, but also for the fans who not only managed to persuade a studio (in this case, Warner Bros) to release, well, anything at all, but to also revisit an alternative, not-yet-fully-existing version of a project from several years ago.
To recap: Snyder had to pull out of
Justice League during production due to a family tragedy, which saw Joss Whedon come on board to complete it in his absence. Whedon’s final product – which Snyder says is an entirely different film than the one he had been working on – was both a critical flop and a disappointment to many fans, who bemoaned the total loss of Snyder’s artistic vision. Almost immediately after the film arrived in theatres, Snyder’s supporters began to organise on Vero with one demand