The anonymous executive told Vanity Fair that no one at Warner Bros. I wanted to admit how horrible Whedon’s “Justice League” came out.
With the release of “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” now less than a month from being broadcast on HBO Max, a Warner Bros. executive. he is not hiding anything about his thoughts on the movie launch that hit critics in November 2017. Snyder left “Justice League” in post-production due to a family tragedy, and Warner Bros. brought in Joss Whedon to oversee the film’s completion and direct remakes that illuminated Snyder’s dark tone. The resulting “Justice League” theatrical cut was a commercial and critical failure for Warner Bros. Speaking anonymously to Vanity Fair, a studio executive said that everyone at Warner Bros. they knew that Whedon’s “Justice League” was a bomb.
“When we got to see what Joss really did, it was amazing,” said the Warner Bros. executive. “Everyone knew that. It was so weird because nobody wanted to admit what the shit was. “
Even before Snyder left “Justice League”, the director was forced to battle Warner Bros. for the creative control of the project. The studio sent DC Entertainment creative chief Geoff Johns and Warner Bros. co-production chief. Jon Berg for production, where one of them would need to be on set every day monitoring Snyder and making sure the film wasn’t getting too dark for Warner Bros. ‘ I like.
“You could say nanny,” Snyder told Vanity Fair about the role of Johns and Berg in the film. “It didn’t bother me too much because they weren’t so threatening. I just felt the ideas they had, where they were trying to inject humor and things like that, it was nothing that was too outrageous. “
The studio also forced Snyder to cut certain threads in the plot, including a proposed romance between Ben Affleck’s Batman and Amy Adams’s Lois Lane, and banned him from making a two-hour version of the film.
“How am I going to introduce six characters and an alien with the potential to take over the world in two hours?” Snyder said. “I mean, I can do this, it can be done. This was clearly done. But I did not see. “
To this day, Snyder has never seen the Whedon Justice League cut. Deborah Snyder, a production partner and Snyder’s wife, saw a private screening of Whedon’s version before the film’s release and advised Zack to stay away from Whedon’s version. Deborah told Vanity Fair: ““ It was just… it’s a strange experience. I don’t know how many people have had this experience. You worked on something for a long time and then you go away and see what happened. “
Deborah Snyder watched Whedon’s “Justice League” with Christopher Nolan, Warner Bros. ‘Director of the “Dark Knight” trilogy and one of the executive producers of Snyder’s films in DC. After the screening, Nolan and Deborah went to Zack with a clear message.
“They came and just said, ‘You can never see this movie,'” said Zack Snyder.
Warner Bros. is expected to broadcast Snyder’s “Justice League” lasting four hours on HBO Max from March 18. Visit the Vanity Fair website to read Snyder’s interview in full.
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