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Zack Snyder Reveals His Original Plans for "Justice League"
by Neil Cole
The ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California recently hosted a screening of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Ultimate Edition" as part of their "The Director's Cuts" series.
Director Zack Snyder was also in attendance for the special event and took questions from the audience as well as explaining his original plans for "Justice League" which had to be altered due to changes the studio made to "Batman v Superman".
"The original Justice League that Chris [Terrio] and I wrote, we didn't even shoot," stated Snyder. "The actual idea, the hard, hard idea, the scary idea, we never filmed because the studio was like 'That's crazy'."
"It's a long story," added Snyder. "The truth is that, the Knightmare sequence in this movie was always my idea [and] that all of that would eventually be explained... and that we would end up in the distant future, where Darkseid has taken over Earth and where Superman has succumbed to the Anti-Life [Equation] ... There were a few members of the Justice League that had survived in that world, that they were fighting. Batman broke a pact with Cyborg because something happened... They were working on an equation to jump Flash back to tell Bruce."
Snyder went on to reveal that although Warner Bros. was on board with the overall story he wanted to tell, they were nervous about "the details of how and why" the Justice League broke up which resulted in a completely different "Justice League" film being shot.
Check out the complete Q&A session here with Zack Snyder's comments on "Justice League" beginning at the 1:19 mark.
