Justice League Snyder Cut: 10 Reasons It Could Be A TERRIBLE Idea
The Snyder Cut has finally become a reality, but should we be careful what we've wished for?
After years of speculation and more 'will they/won't they' than we got from Ross and Rachel in ten seasons of Friends, it was finally confirmed yesterday that the Snyder Cut of Justice League would be heading exclusively to HBO Max.
While we have to wait until 2021 to see the director's intended vision for the DCEU's notorious misfire, this has to count as an unqualified win for fans. The #ReleaseTheSnyderCut movement has remained strong in the face of skepticism and adversity with many people, including those that worked on the movie, thinking that it might never see the light of day.
Now that the Snyder Cut is no longer one of the most famous movies that never got released, it has quickly and officially transitioned into being one of the most highly-anticipated comic book movies in history.
Now that the cat is officially out of the bag, the all-new Justice League has to deal with overwhelming pressure to succeed, alongside rapidly rising expectations.
History has shown on numerous occasions that giving the audience exactly what want isn't always a guaranteed recipe for success.
10. It Pushed The Cost Of The Justice League Saga To Over $500m
Given that Zack Snyder has been pretty vocal in the past about how little of his footage made it into the theatrical release of Justice League, the official announcement of the Snyder Cut has led to reports that it could cost between $20m and $30m to get the movie to where the filmmaker originally intended it to be.
With a huge amount of visual effects work, a lengthy re-editing process, the addition of new music and possibly even some additional scenes being shot, that seems like a fairly conservative estimate. Even if the budget for the Snyder Cut comes in at the low end of projections, that still means the entire Justice League debacle will have cost Warner Bros. at least half a billion dollars.
After sinking a minimum of $300m into the production so that Joss Whedon could get it over the finishing line with some extensive reshoots and then splurging a further $150m on marketing, the studio seem strangely happy to continue plowing vast sums of money into a movie that originally wrapped almost four years ago.
Justice League never turned a profit in the first place, and ultimately made a loss of up to $100m. Given that the Snyder Cut will also be require a hefty marketing budget in order to capitalize on the buzz, it seems more than a little excessive to spend a combined total of over $500m on two versions of the same movie.