Originally published November 10, 2017. Updated April 18, 2018.
We’re now just a week away from the hotly-anticipated release of Warner Bros.’ DC blockbuster Justice League, and during the press conference for the blockbuster, producer Deborah Snyder spoke about her husband Zack’s departure from the director’s chair, and how they hope that audiences will still be able to appreciate the movie, rather than focussing the happenings behind-the-scenes.
“I think, for us, this whole thing is so bittersweet,” said Snyder. “We had been working on this franchise for the last, almost eight years, when we’d been developing the script for Man of Steel, and then we moved on to Batman vs Superman and also, Zack developed the story for Wonder Woman, which was leading up to the point of Justice League, where the characters were going to come together. I mean, this was a great hero’s journey, and a journey for these characters to be the characters that they are today. So not being able to complete his vision was extremely difficult. Our feeling is, we’re hoping that people don’t think about how this movie was made when they go to see it, because these characters are bigger than any director, they’re bigger than any of us. We love and adore these characters.”
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As we know, Joss Whedon came in to finish the movie for Snyder, scripting additional scenes and overseeing reshoots on the film, and producer Charles Roven has spoken to Newsday about Whedon’s influence on the final product, stating that while it is lighter than previous movies, it still works as a trilogy alongside Snyder’s Man of Steel and Batman v Superman:
“I really don’t know how to break down the scenes that Joss wrote with Zack versus the scenes that he wrote later. If you take Man of Steel, Batman v Superman and Justice League as a trilogy — they were all directed by Zack, with the third one having some influence by Joss — I would say this is the lightest of the three. That doesn’t mean it’s a comedy!”
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Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.
Justice League will reunite Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice stars Henry Cavill as Superman, Ben Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Ray Fisher as Cyborg, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, Ezra Miller as The Flash, Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth, Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, Connie Nielsen as Queen Hippolyta and Robin Wright as General Antiope alongside J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) as Commissioner Gordon, Amber Heard (The Danish Girl) as Mera, Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man) as Vulko, Kiersey Clemons (Dope) as Iris West, Ciaran Hinds (Game of Thrones) as Steppenwolf, and Julian Lewis Jones (Stella) and Michael McElhatton (Game of Thrones) in as-yet-unrevealed roles.
