While Comic-Con @ Home has been getting all of the attention the last few days, another Con put on by fans has been going on. JusticeCon is a fan event organized for Zack Snyder’s Justice League and charitable organizations linked to the filmmaker. And unsurprisingly given the amount of teases Snyder has dropped over the years, there were some juicy nuggets of info that came out of today’s presentation.
First of all, Snyder revealed his Snyder Cut of Justice League, which is due to hit HBO Max in 2021, will be 214 minutes long. The 2016 Joss Whedon cut was around 2-hours, which is what Warner Bros. always wanted, but Snyder said he always preferred a longer movie or a miniseries release. He says he’s working with Junkie XL on the score to coincide with the additional footage.
Speaking of that footage, Snyder also says his version of Justice League will have ZERO shots by Whedon. Snyder was especially adamant about this point, too, stating that he still hasn’t watched Whedon’s “Frankencut” of the film which combined new footage with re-edited, re-colored versions of Snyder’s work…
“I would set the movie on fire, I’d destroy it before I used a single frame that I did not photograph,” Snyder said.
Also, while there have been images of Henry Cavill’s Superman in his infamous black suit going around for a long time, those were always re-colored scenes. Snyder actually debuted the first official look at Superman in the black suit, taken directly from his Snyder Cut. In the scene, we see Superman descend from the air and confront Jeremy Irons’ Alfred Pennyworth. Not much else to go on, but it’s pretty cool to finally see the suit being used.
Superman's black suit will be featured in Zack Snyder's Justice League, thanks to this new clip from Justice Con. https://t.co/H9O16LdvAy pic.twitter.com/IWoeuH1Bnh
— IGN (@IGN) July 25, 2020
Snyder said, “I would argue for the black suit all the time and they said it was not a good idea. We had done little adjustments to the suit that would make it easier to adjust. We knew how to do this transformation. We had done a bunch of private experiments to make sure we could switch it, because frankly [the studio] was just not into it. I knew it was the correct evolution for him after he rose from the dead. But the perception of the black suit was just, ‘You’re trying to make the movie dark and not hilarious.'”
Finally, Cyborg actor Ray Fisher put himself out there during his JusticeCon panel, expanding on comments he made this month about Joss Whedon’s abusive behavior on set.
Fisher said, “Obviously I put out some pretty strong words, and some pretty strong comments about Joss Whedon and every single one of those words, and every single one of those comments is true.”
He continued with, “there is a process that is being undergone as we speak to get to the heart of everything that I’m talking about. The man is probably scared, and he should be because we are going to get to the heart of everything — everything — that went down.”
Damn.
You can watch both JusticeCon panels below!
