He’s added the Joker (Jared Leto). Snyder swipes through his phone to show a selfie Autumn took in the letterman jacket worn by Ray Fisher’s character in Justice League, a football star horrendously wounded in a car accident and rebuilt by his scientist father into the half robot warrior Cyborg. What am I about?’” Snyder stumbles on his words, his eyes glassy. Snyder’s DC universe approached its superheroes from the opposite direction, depicting gods and immortals who are at ease wielding cosmic strengths but strain to be human and connect to the ordinary world. It was devoid of visual effects, music, and all the fine-tuning that make a movie a movie. His name is in the credits as the filmmaker, but he’s never sat through the version released to the world three years ago. “Zack had made these movies, like 300, that were such crowd-pleasers. “Without her, this absolutely would not have happened.”. The director is also layering in some deeply personal elements. This would be a prologue to Justice League, a superhero crossover event that some moviegoers had been pining for forever. He really valued the crew. But it’s unheard of for a studio to return to an exiled filmmaker and offer back the power and creative freedom it has yanked away, especially when some of the most beloved and lucrative characters in pop culture history are involved. Joker is sort of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, supplying motivation through terror. “They came and they just said, ‘You can never see that movie,’” Zack Snyder says during lunch at his Pasadena office, a modernist series of cubes jutting from a hillside that overlooks the Rose Bowl. Zack Snyder is answering Autumn’s questions for himself. In some quarters, the worst behavior metastasized. Berg, who’s now production president at Stampede, recalls that duty as a low point. Zack Snyder's Justice League. “I don’t get this from the Birds of Prey fans or the Shazam fans,” says Donaldson. An important year.”. The rest of them…” He shrugs. I just felt the ideas they did have, where they were trying to inject humor and stuff like that, it wasn’t anything that was too outrageous.”, But Warner Bros. did nix some of his more sweeping notions for Justice League, like adding a romance between Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne and Amy Adams’s Lois Lane, who was mourning Superman’s death in the previous film. I would rather just have the Snyder cut be a mythical unicorn for all time.”, Snyder estimates that it cost around $70 million to undo Whedon’s redo. Whatever comes, he’s okay. When he talks about his daughter, the otherwise scrappy, ebullient 54-year-old filmmaker always looks away. More than three years after Autumn’s death, Snyder still slips between the past and present tense when talking about her. “But I will say that it was always my intention to bring Joker into that world.”. The jokes fell flat. In some of his Justice League scenes, Leto’s Joker also sports a bulletproof vest festooned with grimy law enforcement badges. “When we got to see what Joss actually did, it was stupefying,” says a studio executive, who requested anonymity. With Gal Gadot, whom he gave a career-making role as Wonder Woman. His name is in the credits as the filmmaker, but he’s never sat through the version released to the world three years ago. “I remember Gal saying to me, ‘Zack, I was going to quit the business. The Russian family—so useless and pointless. Zack Snyder's Justice League - Top 5 Scenes BREAKDOWN. People. “For some people, that is amazing, and for other people that becomes the problem because they have fixed opinions about who these DC characters are and are not.”. And I felt like we didn’t really know where to turn.”. “But this fan base has saved lives. “And they’re like, ‘But why? “She’s super creative,” he says. ‘What is my worth? Aquaman, for instance, has always looked WASPy in the comics. “And so if there was a way to make it logistically and financially possible, which HBO Max did, and Zack had a willingness to do it, it seemed like a win for everybody.”, Initially, says Snyder, Warner Bros. just wanted to release the raw footage on his laptop. As much as they wanted something for themselves, they’ve come together for this amazing cause. ... Zack Snyder's Justice League Teaser VF. He’d become the architect of the entire DC cinematic universe—and his casting choices continue to resonate. Only half of that was true. (On the day Vanity Fair visited his office, Snyder was working on finalizing the music for the restored scene in which The Flash rescues her from a car crash. See Zendaya, Michael B. Jordan, Charlize Theron, and More in V.F.’s 2021 Hollywood Portfolio— Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins on The Silence of the Lambs’ Legacy— Amanda Seyfried’s Golden Age— Did Warner Bros. “I don’t think that anyone should be calling anyone anything. ), Among the issues was the length of the film. Scott Stuber, head of original films at Netflix, says it’s a chance to build a world with a filmmaker who’s hungry to return: “Zack went through something very difficult, and I think he probably realized, like we all do, it’s okay to be vulnerable. Rebuilding the story he had always envisioned is what invigorates Snyder most. “A little over one,” he says, smiling at the memory of her wild energy. It’s a dream sequence, a psychic vision, experienced by Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne that reveals what will happen if the superheroes fail to stop the onslaught. “I’d be stronger than that,” says Silverman. He’d emerged from music videos and commercials with the breakout remake of Dawn of the Dead in 2004 and followed it up with the otherworldly, visually audacious tale of resistance 300, which became a box office behemoth in 2007. Now she is the main reason he decided to come back. Snyder gradually began to encourage the movement, but it was hardly the first thing on his mind. Katy Perry Jokes She'll Be the Good Cop and Orlando Bloom Will Be the Bad Cop to Their Daughter. But by then the situation with Warner Bros. had imploded. “She was the only fan. Two, you get to feel vindicated for making things right, I guess, on some level. I never imagined a world for me beyond this. Variation is not just allowed, but expected. “I tried to be forthright about what I thought creatively. Days before that announcement, HBO, a division of WarnerMedia, parted ways with Whedon on the sci-fi series The Nevers. The #SnyderCut is coming on March 18. Maybe they hoped to silence dissenters, or maybe they were just trolls being trolls. From the awards race to the box office, with everything in between: get the entertainment industry's must-read newsletter. In any case, film journalists with negative takes reported getting swarmed with insults and even threats. Justice League director Zack Snyder shared a teasing glimpse of Jared Leto's new-look Joker last week, but Vanity Fair has now given us a proper look … “I 100 percent think it’s wrong,” he says. Zack Snyder's resurrection is nearly complete.. With his four-hour, R-rated Justice League set to premiere on HBO Max on March 18 –– thrilling legions of fans who demanded Warner Bros. "release the Snyder Cut!" Ad Choices, A demoralizing battle with Warner Bros. A devastating personal tragedy. Diane Nelson, who was president of DC Entertainment at the time, says she appreciated that Snyder was more into deconstructing the familiar than just recapitulating it. PremiereFR. Ahead of the arrival of Zack Snyder’s ‘Justice League’ on HBO Max, the long story behind the troubled production of Whedon’s version is coming to light. Factor in the sizable cut theaters take from the box office, and a return of only $657 million is a clear money loser. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Your California Privacy Rights. “I probably should have let it go. This time, he wants creative control, and forgoing a fee helped. When it debuted in 2013, Man of Steel established Henry Cavill as an object of global thirst, just as 300 had done for Gerard Butler and his washboard abs. Even the director’s champions, like production head Greg Silverman, were worried. The filmmaker has often said being an adoptive father is one of the reasons he was so invested in the story of Kal-El, a powerful being who became Superman thanks to the love and care of Jonathan and Martha Kent. But this woman makes me think that if I can get this group of gods together, then my job is done. Three reasons: One, you get the internet off your back, which is probably your main reason for wanting to do this. Leto is wearing a hospital gown and surgical mask in the photos Snyder released exclusively to Vanity Fair, which the director says is probably a remnant of his escape into the wild when the world fell. Snyder had two sons with line producer Kirsten Elin before marrying Deborah, his longtime producing partner, in 2004, with whom he adopted two more children. “A lot of the people at the company, myself included, always felt badly that Zack didn’t get to finish his vision of this film because of the circumstances,” says Emmerich. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Your California Privacy Rights. Le Diable dans la Peau - VF. Snyder then made a pair of box office disappointments—a digitally animated adventure about warring owls called Legend of the Guardians and the surreal, and some would say sexist, action movie Sucker Punch—before being called to take on a legend among legends: Superman. The studio had hoped for more than the $668 million it made at the box office. “When Batman v Superman came out and we did get a negative reaction from the fans, it was disheartening for all of us,” says Silverman, now the founder and head of independent content company Stampede Ventures. HBO Max annonce le film pour "bientôt", donc aucune date de fixée pour le moment. I was going to do this one more audition.’ Then she came in, and I was like, ‘That’s my Wonder Woman.’” Now she’s the whole world’s. The Snyders tried to keep going for two months after Autumn’s death, finding solace in finishing Justice League. They had two more children before they divorced. But the Snyders’ hearts had already been through a lot. “It’s Joker analyzing Batman about who he is and what he is. That is to say, the Jared Leto Joker and the Ben Affleck Batman, they never really got together. “What I have observed is an enduring false sense of ownership, which can manifest as abuse, threats, and strong, intense reactions when a story doesn’t go their way,” she says. Batman’s nemesis was one of them. His 2009 adaptation upended comic book expectations just as Hollywood was building epic new franchises. Mov Fun. As Joker might advise, just roll with the chaos. (The director declined repeated requests for a comment.) “And in a lot of ways it has informed everything we’ve done since.”. The fans could be clever, but many were horrifically toxic. When they spoke to Vanity Fair for this story, they were completing Army of the Dead—a zombie-filled heist extravaganza that will launch a new, multipronged franchise for Netflix—as well as restoring Zack’s original vision for Justice League. That’s the thing I also felt like fans deserved from the DC Universe. Maybe he hunts down those striving for order until he finds someone still capable of being hurt. Everyone knew it. He left his name off the movie except to claim a shared writing credit with Chris Terrio, who had written Snyder’s previous installment, 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. “I got a little bit from Joker fans but nowhere near the same level.” Nonetheless, she’s looking forward to Snyder’s movie: “I think 300 is great fun. All rights reserved. Ticket Box. ), Snyder also saw a bigger structural problem with the “make it shorter” order: “How am I supposed to introduce six characters and an alien with potential for world domination in two hours? What becomes of a prophet of mayhem in a world that has already fallen apart? “The scene explains why Bruce had the Joker card taped to his gun that you see in Batman v Superman,” the director says of his 2016 film, which also hinted that that Joker murdered the Caped Crusader’s sidekick by showing the absent Robin’s armor, spray-painted with “Ha Ha, Joke’s On You, Batman.”, “I’d always wanted to explore the death of Robin,” Snyder said. His version of Justice League will exist on its own, making use of some material from other DC movies, but standing alone as a kind of “Elseworlds” tale. Snyder’s twist was to present a conflicted Clark Kent rather than the sunny alter ego played by Christopher Reeve. “It didn’t bother me too much because they weren’t that threatening. Snyder’s movies tend to be about strength and what it means to wield it. That order had a paradoxical impact, because it meant eliminating much of the heart and humor the studio also wanted, like a comical romantic subplot between Ezra Miller’s Flash and Kiersey Clemons’s Iris, the latter of whom was absent entirely from the Whedon film. “He’s a Pacific Islander, there’s a connection to the sea—what if he’s Aquaman?” he remembers thinking. “So he had this insane conflict, because Lois, of course, was still in love with Superman. What is my worth? A fan base he couldn’t control. It’s a completely different movie.”, As for the fan base, the Snyder movement has contributed half a million dollars to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention through donations, sales of merchandise, and auctions of props. 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In this case, Snyder chose to cast his Joker as Leto, who played the part (in an entirely different form) in David Ayer’s Suicide Squad in 2016. Maybe he did. Professionally at least, things have vastly improved. (Johns’s representatives didn’t respond to a request for comment.) In 2016, as principal photography got under way on Justice League in the United Kingdom, rumors percolated that Snyder had been fired from the film. What am I about? My job was to try to mediate between a creator whose vision is instinctually dark and a studio that perceived, rightly or wrong, that the fans wanted something lighter. “She was a writer. My heart sank.”, Whedon rewrote and reshot about three quarters of Justice League, from what Snyder can gather. 3:40. 50 Nuances de Grey - VF (2) PremiereFR. HTML Editor Rich Content Editor You can just put up the rough cut.’” Snyder didn’t trust their motivations. All rights reserved. 7:59. In the aftermath of Whedon’s version, a new narrative arose on social media: #ReleaseTheSnyderCut. Zack Snyder, the director of Justice League, has never seen Justice League. It was sneered at by critics, shrugged at by baffled moviegoers, and all but disowned by those who created it. “Everyone was like, ‘You’re insane. For years, DC fans and Snyder enthusiasts—who worshipped his high-octane brawn-fests like his Dawn of the Dead remake, his ancient Greek battle saga 300, and his twisted Watchmen adaptation—beat a drum on social media demanding, demanding, demanding that Warner Bros. return Justice League to its original filmmaker and allow him to share his version of the movie. Groups paid to have single-engine airplanes fly a “Release the Snyder Cut” banner around both the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank and the annual Comic-Con gathering in San Diego. In what may be a divisive move, he’s also presenting the movie in the boxy 4:3 format rather than wide-screen so that one day it can be watched on IMAX screens. “It was really tricky and not a position that I loved, to be honest,” he says. 1984 Sojky v hlave Part 2. “It was just…it’s a weird experience,” she says now. Kill Moviegoing as We Know It?— For the latest awards-season news, sign up here or text (917) 809-7096 to receive text message updates from the Little Gold Men podcast hosts— From the Archive: Mia Farrow’s Story — Not a subscriber? The subtitle was a giveaway. Given his choice of projects, Snyder picked Watchmen, the iconic graphic novel that scorned the classic tropes of superhero storytelling and explored the corrupting nature of power. “It has informed everything we’ve done since.”. The Suicide Squad Bande-annonce VO. “I remember I was in a movie theater, coincidentally enough,” Ray Fisher said on the set of Snyder’s reshoots last fall. And I got the call from Zack and he was saying that he had to deal with stuff with the fam and he was having to step away. “It’s such a lightning strike in the center of this whole saga,” Snyder says of his daughter Autumn’s death. “I was walking into the AMC right in Times Square. All of them were relentless, and they grew more numerous over time. Remarque voir le film Zack Snyder's Justice League en streaming hd gratuit en français (vf) et vostfr. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. “[The cast] were very loyal to Zack, and they were hurting for him,” says Nelson, the former DC president. In 2010, when he first began working on DC movies for Warner Bros., Snyder was promoted as a visionary director, though critics sometimes differed. For the director’s devotees, it’s a Hollywood ending for a Hollywood story, but for the truly devastating thing that happened to Zack Snyder and his loved ones in 2017, there can be no fix, no do-over. On November 17, 2017, the team-up between Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, Aquaman, and The Flash didn’t so much debut in theaters as crash into them. That might seem overly dramatic. The movie closes with Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” performed by Allison Crowe, a friend who also sang it at Autumn’s funeral. 12:22. Maybe he just lurks among the other nightmares in their blighted landscape. But harsh reviews for Batman v Superman demolished Warner Bros.’ confidence in Snyder. Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach/Walter Kovacs in, Ray Fisher in his motion capture suit for. “The Joker is really the only thing that I thought of in retrospect,” Snyder tells Vanity Fair. Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. When Snyder quit, he took his unfinished Justice League on a laptop as a memento. “When you think about the catharsis of it, if I was a potter, I would’ve made some pottery to look for some way through this,” he says. Justice League opened on November 17, 2017, and cratered. After concluding its investigation, Warner Bros. announced that “remedial action” had been taken, though the studio didn’t offer specifics. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Is there tattoo removal in the apocalypse? You’re worth more than anything in the world!’ And she would just be like, ‘…yeah.’”, Snyder says Autumn used writing to vent her pain, to channel it into words that might contain it, or explain it. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories. It’s literally life or death. He was paid the first time, of course. Marvel Studios movies, whose success exerted so much pressure on the DC team, hit on a formula that mirrored their comic book roots—telling stories about relatable, everyday people grappling with sudden phenomenal powers. And that war was happening to her every day. Make Comments Public. Even executives who were sometimes at odds with him agree that he’s genuinely nice. To him, it was a memento. https://peatix.com/group/10180366/view https://peatix.com/group/10180384/view https://peatix.com/group/10180404/view https://peatix.com/group/10180413/view He would not just advise during reshoots, but also do some directing himself. But then how Joss chose to handle that is Joss’s to live with.”. Even if it’s negative comments, they’re getting positive reinforcement to continue down that path.”, The trolls may have actually held back the movement, like looters at an otherwise peaceful demonstration. I think the first 10 minutes of Watchmen are some of the best things any superhero movie has ever done.” Even if she doesn’t end up liking the Snyder cut, she says, “I would rather watch one person’s chaos than a committee’s snooze-fest.”, Drea Letamendi, a clinical psychologist who explores superhero archetypes on the Arkham Sessions podcast, notes that fans get especially aggressive on social media when they feel they’ve been denied something. “The intention was that Bruce fell in love with Lois and then realized that the only way to save the world was to bring Superman back to life,” says Snyder. It’s not uncommon for directors to lose creative control of big-budget studio spectacles, or for other filmmakers to step in. Join Vanity Fair now for full access to VF.com. I can stop.’ And of course that doesn’t work out for him.”. Not even close. Snyder wasn’t just making big-budget tentpoles. That didn’t happen, but Warner Bros.’ then chairman and CEO, Kevin Tsujihara, did assign watchdogs in the form of DC Entertainment creative chief Geoff Johns and Warner Bros. co-production head Jon Berg. I mean, I can do it, it can be done. Jared Leto’s clown prince was not part of Snyder’s original plan before walking away from the movie in 2017 amid a clash with Warner Bros. leadership and grief over a family tragedy, but when HBO Max offered him the chance to finalize his own cut of the movie, the director had a few things he wanted to add to the long-awaited #Snydercut. Joss Whedon, a director from another universe, the Marvel Cinematic one, left the Avengers after two movies and crossed over to comics rival DC, picking up Justice League not where Snyder left off, but remaking it significantly with extensive rewrites and hurried reshoots, just as the studio demanded. “There’s not a day that’s gone by over the last three years, I haven’t thought about this movie, that I have not sat up at night thinking, What if there was a world wherein this thing actually does get released?” says the actor, sitting on set in his gray scale motion capture suit. It was so awkward because nobody wanted to admit what a piece of shit it was.”. It is especially strong from Snyder cut acolytes, she adds, perhaps because they respond misguidedly to the director’s tales of loner heroes in a hostile world. In late 2017—months after the couple cut ties with the superhero epic amid an increasingly demoralizing battle with Warner Bros.—Deborah Snyder sat in a screening room on the studio lot alongside Christopher Nolan, one of the movie’s executive producers, as well as the director of the Dark Knight trilogy. Reeling from Autumn’s death—and finding anguish in their work rather than relief—Zack and Deborah quit. Johns, one of the studio-appointed babysitters, had been planning a Batgirl movie with Whedon, and Snyder and others say Johns recruited him to do rewrites for Justice League. Whedon has since been accused of unprofessional and abusive behavior on set. Clearly it was done,” he says, referring to Whedon’s version. Mov Fun. You can interpret that to mean: Snyder just liked it better this way. It did not go well, according to Snyder and others. The director envisioned this as operatic, tragic, and perhaps a more challenging type of comic book storytelling, but Warner Bros. feared it made his heroes gloomy, their abilities a curse. 20:49. “I didn’t want to be beholden to anyone, and it allowed me to keep my negotiating powers with these people pretty strong.”, Fisher, for one, was eager to return.
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