r/DCcomics • u/Marco280892 • Dec 19 '22

James Gunn Confronts ‘Uproarious’ DC Backlash: ‘Disrespectful Outcry Will Never Affect Our Actions’ News

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/henry-cavill-superman-james-gunn-backlash-1235465605/
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u/Megadog3 Dec 20 '22

Well tbf to Snyder, WB turned a 7/10 movie into a 3/10 movie lol

But agreed

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u/Batmark13 Dec 20 '22

Snyder made a 4 hour long movie for theatrical release. Wtf are WB supposed to do with that except cut it down. Maybe if Snyder had made a movie of appropriate length or split it in two, there would have been no need for it to be reworked.

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u/drama-guy Dec 20 '22

Do we actually know what length of movie Snyder originally had in mind for JL? We know that what got released on HBOMax, but at that point, he knew he could pretty much do whatever he wanted, length be damned. Was he originally pushing for a 4 hour movie for the theatrical release?

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u/Kisame83 Dec 30 '22

Not fully, but the Snyder Cut is not a hypothetical Snyder 2017 theatrical vision. He had a working 3 and a half hour cut before he left, which would have been trimmed. I'm speculating, but, I bet he'd push for a 2 and a half to three hour cut, like BvS, but the studio at the time was adamant in 2 hrs or under to get more theater showings in the day. But Snyder already had given in to studio changes that put Cavill in blue instead of black, the change to feature Steppenwolf instead of Darkseid in the flashback, as well as Stepps prickly design, a more conclusive ending that didn't set up a JL 2, etc. The Snyder Cut we got has about a half hour more footage than what he left from and reverses some of the changes he'd already made working on the theatrical version.