10 Movies That Were Only Made With VERY WEIRDLY SPECIFIC Conditions
2. It Couldn't Be Longer Than 2 Hours - Justice League
2017's Justice League is surely the most infamously troubled blockbuster production of the last decade, with the DCEU's answer to the Avengers being heavily workshopped, rewritten, re-edited, and re-shot during its lengthy post-production period.
Warner Bros. executives expressed concerns about Zack Snyder's epic original Snyder Cut - an unwieldy 214-minute behemoth that was likely unreleasable in cinemas - which in conjunction with the sudden death of Snyder's daughter prompted him to step away from the shoot, with Joss Whedon being subbed in to "fix" the film.
Then-Warner CEO Kevin Tsujihara, clearly desperate for the film to be a breezy box office smash, mandated that the new Whedon Cut couldn't exceed two hours.
And despite Whedon drastically re-shaping almost the entirety of the film, he understandably struggled to bring it in under the stated runtime, such that Justice League clocks in at 1:59:43.
And while the Whedon Cut is certainly not a good movie, it clearly suffered from Whedon frantically trying to cram so much plot, character development, and action into a mere two hours, including the end credits no less.
Ultimately the original Justice League was a critical and commercial disappointment, and Warner Bros. ended up giving Snyder $70 million to finish the much better-received Snyder Cut anyway.