‘Justice League’ Will Be The Last Movie Zack Snyder Makes In The DC Film Universe
After years of campaigns, protests, and crowdfunded billboards,Zack Snyder’s Justice Leagueis finally arriving this week. So what should fans who rallied for the “Snyder Cut” do with their time and energy now that they’ve gotten everything they wanted? What they shouldn’t do is prepare to continue the #RestoreTheSnyderVerse campaign in hope of sequels. According to the filmmaker himself, the upcoming HBO Max release will be his last film in the DC movie universe.
Zack Snyder confirmed thatJustice Leaguewill be the last movie he makes in the DC film universe, effectively shutting down the idea behind the growing #RestoreTheSnyderVerse campaign that is beginning to be mounted as we near the release of the long-awaited “Snyder Cut.” In an interview withThe New York Times, Snyder said that Warner Bros. has no plans to continue with his version of the DC film universe that is seen in his cut ofJustice League, despite pouring $70 million into the project.
“They are 100 percent moving away,” he said. “They consider the theatrical cut ofJustice Leagueas canon.”
But curiously,Zack Snyder’s Justice Leaguestill sets up a sequel, one that will apparently never come, according to the filmmaker. The Times asked him why end the movie on a cliffhanger at all if he didn’t intend to follow up the story and he said:
“I added it because this was going to be the last movie I make for the DCU, and to have this entire cinematic universe without Batman and Joker meeting up just felt weird…The ask was for my version of the movie.”
The upcomingFlashmovie will reportedly erase the “SnyderVerse” – the grim DC film universe on display inMan of Steel, Batman vSuperman, and the upcomingZack Snyder’sJustice League– with a time travel plot that is intended to create a multiverse crisis, allowing Ben Affleck’s Batman to exit andMichael Keaton’s Batmanto be reintroduced.The Flashwill allow Warner Bros. to start from scratch, effectively ending Snyder’s time in the DC film universe — and Snyder doesn’t seem to have any plans to expand the “SnyderVerse.”
“I’m trying to put together this movie calledHorse Latitudes, a super-microbudget movie that I’m going to go shoot with my buddies in South America,” Snyder said of his upcoming projects. He’s also got an adaptation of Ayn Rand’sThe Fountainheadon “the back burner,” for when the U.S. is “a less divided country and a little more liberal government…so people don’t react to it in a certain way.”
