Most movies nowadays are filmed on digital cameras and the footage is stored on hard drives, which would be about the same size as the sought-after "Mother Box" that is a key plot device in the live-action Justice League movie.
It's a smartphone, it's a virtual assistant, it's a universal remote, it's a personal computer, it's a pocket calculator, it's an alarm clock, it's a portable dimensional portal generator...
Snyder kept a separate hard drive containing his copy of the footage he shot - allegedly enough content for a 4 or 5-hours long film...a very different movie from the shortened, reshot film that was presented in theatres under his name by his replacement, Avengers director Joss Whedon, who had been brought in to...make it more like the films at Marvel Studios, effectively giving us The Whedon Cut...
That's not Gal Godat, by the way...that's her stunt double. Godat refused to do that scene. Ezra Miller on the other hand...
And then there's this abomination:
I don't blame Snyder for wanting to disown a cut of a film that he claims used only a quarter of the work he did. This upcoming "Director's Cut" is unfinished business. I remember liking the film we got, but I never rewatched it since. And I still haven't subscribed to any streaming services...I just figure that when "Zack Snyder's Justice League" debuts on HBOMax, it should be good enough to also be released on DVD/BLU-RAY.
Hey, where's Daffy Duck?
What I find more tantalizing to me is the faint possibility of sequels. I don't dislike Darkseid, but aside from "Rock of Ages", a lot of the Justice League vs. Darkseid stories are pretty flat to me. If Snyder does a sequel to his final cut, it should incorporate elements of one of the few big, epic tales from DC Comics that managed to catch on..I already mentioned "Rock of Ages", but recent news about Marvel Studios having no plans for a "Deadpool 3" started rumors that Ryan Reynolds might come to Warner Brothers to give Green Lantern another try...obviously, it would be more his way than the first go-around, but that got me thinking about Zero Hour:
The CW television series' "Arrowverse" already adapted Crisis On Infinite Earths, so it's natural that Zero Hour gets a look. For one thing, this arc, unlike Crisis, features more of the A-list DC stable, with a lot of fun moments where they encounter different incarnations of each other. How fun would it be to have Robert Pattinson, Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck as different versions of Batman onscreen? Likewise, Henry Cavill, Brandon Routh, Tom Welling and Tyler Hoechin as different versions of Superman? Then there's Batgirl Barbara Gordon having a key role. You could also have Lynda Carter, Grant Gustin, Stephen Amell...it goes on..
The plot of "Zero Hour" is Crisis in miniature - a villain named Extant appears to be screwing with timelines, resulting in characters from parallel worlds interacting with each other...then it's revealed that Extant was just a puppet for Hal Jordan, who had become drunk-with-power villain Parallax in the 1990's, in his scheme to rewrite history...which sounds like Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet..
Besides, Reynolds' experience filming "Green Lantern" had rewards of it's own..
Justice League: Zero Hour...that's a sequel I want to see..ironically based on a quarter of the actual plot of the mini-series that it's based on, but there's a nice symmetry in that...Avengers: Infinity War & Endgame don't exactly resemble Jim Starlin's Infinity Gauntlet, either.
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