9 Films That Changed Due To Fan Backlash

When Warner Bros released their upcoming slate of DC films in late 2014 - including a second Justice League film and a Cyborg standalone - it was clear that they had big plans for their budding cinematic universe, but those plans changed drastically, all because of a little film called Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice - or more specifically, because of the negative reaction to it.

The studio was caught off guard by just how poorly the film was received: anticipating it being a massive hit, they had already set sequel Justice League to go into production roughly a week after BvS' release. When the bad reviews for the latter started rolling in, the wheels were already turning on Justice League's production, and there was no stopping them without suffering some major financial losses, as well as looking incompetent to boot.

So the studio's solution was to "fix" the movie on the fly. Zack Snyder's original vision for Justice League apparently included the villainous Darkseid, a darker tone, a dystopian Earth with an evil Superman, and a sequence that explained the Flash's message to Bruce Wayne in BvS, among other things. However, pressure from Warner Bros - after the BvS backlash - resulted in the film being completely overhauled.

The resulting Justice League is a hodgepodge of half-baked ideas, studio interference, and multiple different visions, which all stemmed from the disappointment many fans felt after watching its predecessor.