How Warner Bros. Should Have Made Justice League
8. By One Director With Full Creative Control
Warner Bros handed Zack Snyder the keys to its DC kingdom and gave him free reign to reinvent its most iconic heroes, but somewhere between two divisive Superman films, they clearly lost faith in his vision. The extensive post-production surgery that was carried out on Justice League proves that much.
Although Snyder was credited as the sole director on the film, large sections of it were overhauled. There's tonal imbalance throughout, and just take a look at how many scenes from the trailers ended up on the cutting room floor.
The time for a radical change in direction wasn't the post-production phase of Snyder's third film. If the studio was so keen to head along another avenue, they should have allowed the filmmaker to realise his original vision with Justice League, draw a line under the film, and rejigged the franchise after that.
Like Suicide Squad before it, Justice League reeks of studio interference. Not only does it feel tonally inconsistent next to Man of Steel and Batman vs Superman, it's tonally inconsistent from one scene to the next.
Whether Zack Snyder was ever cut out for the job of DCEU steward depends on who you ask, but whoever they handed that role to should have been handed complete creative control, if only for the sake of consistency.