Technically speaking, Zack Snyder’s Justice League it will be full of new scenes. But almost all of these scenes were already filmed years ago, waiting to be completed via VFX work or color correction. But what about newly shot scenes? How many of them are there in the film? The answer may surprise you! It’s one – the answer is one. And we already know what the scene is: Jared Leto like the Joker, talking about how we live in a society. So what the hell else did Zack Snyder spend that reported $ 70 million to finish the film? Producer Deborah Snyder may have that answer, as it revealed that there are something like 2,650 new visual effects in the film. Meanwhile, the first track Tom Holkenborgde (also known as Junkie XLThe score of) is now available for your listening pleasure.
Zack Snyder’s official Justice League soundtrack
Here it is – a nearly 7-minute track from Junkie XL’s score for Zack Snyder’s Justice League. As you may remember, Danny Elfman marked the theatrical cut of Justice League – but Junkie XL was announced as a composer first. This change was, for many, the first sign of problems with production. When news of the replacement was released, Junkie XL released the following statement: “As my mentor Hans Zimmer told me – you were not successful in Hollywood as a songwriter until you were replaced on a project. So I think [I] finally graduated this week. It is painful for me to leave the project, but a big thank you to Zack for inviting me to part of his vision … ”That was in 2017. Now, four years later, Junkie XL is back with his own score for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the infamous Snyder Cut that fans expected.
It is my duty to recap what happened every time I write about this film, just in case you’re somehow in the dark, so here it goes: Zack Snyder originally was supposed to direct Justice League. But after a family tragedy, he abandoned the project. After your departure, Joss Whedon intervened to finish the film – and a large part of the film that was released in theaters was shot by Whedon. The end result was very insufficient, and Snyder’s diehard fans began to insist that if Snyder’s true vision had been realized, Justice League it would have been much better. They started demanding to see the Snyder cut.
There was only one problem: the Snyder cut did not same exist. Not in any coherent and finished form, at least. Snyder made a preliminary cut of the footage he shot and showed it to studio executives before his departure. But despite all the excitement, there was no finished film on the shelf, waiting to be released. This did not stop the fans – they maintained their campaign. For a while, it looked like it was all a chimera. But then HBO Max came on the scene. WarnerMedia’s fledgling streaming service realized it could attract many new subscribers if it finally promised to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut, and so they decided to do just that.
But then again: there was no such cut completed. Which meant Snyder had to go back and finish what he started. And to do that, he would need money. How much money? According to reports, $ 70 million. And this is a Shit of money, guys. So what the hell did Snyder spend on? There were announcements that several actors would return for the remakes, which looks like it could consume some money. But, it seems, the rumors of those reshoots were far-fetched.
During an appearance on the LightCast podcast (via The Playlist), Justice League producer Deborah Snyder revealed that only one new scene was filmed for the new cut: “People were thinking, ‘Oh, they went and filmed a lot more stuff’ and I said, ‘We literally shot a scene, like one more [scene]. I filmed three days here. That’s it. This is what we capture. “
And we already know what that scene is: the addition of Jared Leto’s Joker to the “Knightmare” sequel we saw for the first time in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, where Batman has a vision of an alternative world where everyone is wearing cardigans and Superman is evil. However, other actors besides Leto were also involved.
“It was also strange because Ezra [Miller] was shooting [Fantastic Beasts at the time] and he’s on the scene, ”said Snyder in the podcast interview. “So, we shot him remotely. Zack expanded because he was on Fantastic animals. Fortunately, his team is amazing, they say, ‘We will help you!’ So, we got a green screen and they had a camera feed and a zoom. He drove Ezra via Zoom and we put him on. “
That still begs the question: what did they spend all that extra money on? The answer seems to be the visual effects. As Snyder explained:
“The execution time is about four hours. If you think about it, about how much extra time it is, and then think about what these superhero movies full of visual effects are like, we had to do, in six months, 2,650 photos of weird visual effects. And normally, when you make these films, what happens is that, as you are filming, you start to flip the photos. Listen, we had a lot of assets built, but I think the way the theatrical release was done, they changed a lot of things. And during the process, while we were working on the film, [there were] some of the things they wanted Zack to change, some of the character designs. So, we want to go back to the original intention, of Zack’s intention, in terms of the characters and we had to reconstruct these models. But then there were so many pictures to take. “
I still have my doubts that it all needed a high price of $ 70 million, but it’s me. Zack Snyder’s Justice League access HBO Max in March 18th, 2021.
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