Here's what Zack Snyder has said about the likelihood of a Snyder Cut sequel
Zack Snyder’s Justice League is finally here – but will we be getting a sequel? Given how the four-hour epic ends, Justice League 2 is inevitably on the minds of DC fans everywhere.
Considering the fight to urge the Snyder Cut on HBO Max, it’s perhaps a surprise to seek out out that director Zack Snyder has spoken at length about the likelihood of a Justice League sequel. that has everything from specific plot points to the broader DCEU story arc the director was getting to tell.
But you don’t want bits and pieces, right? you would like everything. and that we aim to deliver. Here’s everything that’s been said thus far about Justice League 2 – and whether it’s likely to become a reality.
Justice League 2: is it happening?
If you'll believe it, Justice League 2 was nearly as good as an official at one point in time. The sequel was penciled in by Warner Bros. for release on Flag Day, 2019. That, of course, never came to pass. Justice League 2 was quietly scrubbed from the schedules after the discharge of 2017’s Justice League (partly directed by Joss Whedon after Snyder left the project following a private tragedy) and fans' attention instead turned towards getting Snyder’s original vision for Justice League released.
Unfortunately, it seems like Justice League 2 goes the way of the DC dodo. That’s due partially to Snyder revealing such a lot of the story (more thereon below) – a symbol that the director possibly feels it’s never getting to be made. whilst recently as of February 2021, Snyder has talked about the studio not being on board with the thought of releasing a sequel.
Speaking to the I Minutemen Podcast, he said: "As far as I do know, there is no interest and/or appetite to try to more of those movies from Warner Bros. – with me, anyway." That, including a replacement York Times report suggesting sources on the brink of Warner Bros. believes Snyder’s Justice League may be a "storytelling cul-de-sac" paint a bleak picture.
Snyder doubled down on his disappearing hopes for the film in an interview with sister publication Total Film. Describing 2021’s Snyder Cut as a "primer for an additional two [Justice League] movies," Snyder said: "Not that those movies are ever getting to get photographed, I do not see that taking place ."
Sad times. Snyder fans will know, though, that you simply can never say never when it involves reviving projects. Zack Snyder’s Justice League – perhaps deliberately – leaves things incredibly open-ended, both teasing a sequel also as further expanding the League’s roster.
Justice League 2 story: the plot for the DC sequel
So, let’s say Justice League 2 doesn’t happen. As of writing, there are
not any plans, Snyder sounds unconvinced, and neither Warne Bros. nor HBO Max has released statements on its plans for the so-called ‘Snyder-verse’. Still, we have a sizeable amount of story beats to imagine what could are.
Speaking to the NY Times, Snyder outlined the sequel’s downbeat premise: "It’s the autumn of Earth when Superman succumbs to [the Anti-Life Equation]. then sending cut back in time to vary one element so that doesn’t happen.”
That scene, complete with a yellowish hue, are some things briefly teased in Zack Snyder’s Justice League in its Epilogue. During the Knightmare sequence, Batman teams up with Cyborg, Flash, Mera, Deathstroke, and Joker on a Darkseid-conquered Earth.
Superman eventually descends and is seemingly controlled by Darkseid because of the Anti-Life Equation – the mythical power that grants the user full control over anything it touches. Presumably, the Knightmare scene, alongside Batman’s similar visions of being captured in Batman vs Superman, would have formed a part of the Justice League sequel.
Snyder has elaborated on the ultimate battle. In Justice League 2 – and therefore, the potential third movie – Darkseid would have fought the armies of Earth within the same way he did when he took on the likes of Zeus and the Green Lantern a couple of thousand years before the events of Justice League, as seen within the historical sequence.
"And then the large battle where we beat [Darkseid]," Snyder said. "When Darkseid involves Earth, within the movie that you’ll never see, the armies of Earth all unite again, as they did before. At this point there would be aircraft carriers and Special Forces guys, all the armies of the planet would close, also as Atlanteans rising out of the ocean and therefore the Themyscirans coming off their island. That was our big finale. But it’s an extended paradiddle and guitar solo to urge there."
Kevin Smith also hinted back in 2019 that the trilogy would have touched upon a bigger battle on Darkseid’s homeworld of Apokolips alongside the Green Lantern Corps, with the fight eventually brought back to Earth.
While Justice League 2 may never come to pass, we now have an honest idea of what would have happened. But, who knows, a #SnyderCut2 hashtag might just turn this Mother Box of ideas and supposition into a fully-fledged sequel involving Darkseid, evil Superman, and therefore the return of Jared Leto’s Joker.
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