Beyond The Trailer’s Grace Randolph recently caught up with director Zack Snyder to talk Justice League, and the filmmaker specifically elaborated on his plans for Superman in the Snyder Cut. In Joss Whedon’s theatrical version, many of Henry Cavill’s scenes were the result of reshoots, so Snyder’s plans for the Man of Steel are a mystery for the most part. 

Talking about making the character more relatable, Snyder explained that there’s a certain responsibility with bringing the most iconic of DC’s heroes to the big screen. 

“Superman is such an abstract character, in his powers and what he’s able to do. Anytime you can kind of bring him back down to Earth, he becomes a lot more relatable, and for that he’s more interesting,” Snyder explained. “A huge respect for his  moral code, and I think his ultimate place as the top of the pyramid of the DC superhero world. In the end, he has to achieve that pinnacle.”

Quizzed if he plans to take Superman to that “pinnacle” in the version of Justice League coming to HBO Max, the director added: “I always felt like that was what I was doing. Now like with the resurrection sort of theme, concept. You know, who is he now? What is he? When you touch the eternal, in the sense that coming back from the grave. How are we changed by that?”

In other words, it’s sounding like Snyder has big plans to address what becomes of Superman after he’s brought back from the dead, something Whedon glossed over for the most part in his film. We can probably also expect this to tie into those “Knightmare” flash forwards in some fashion!

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If you’ve checked Twitter today, chances are you will have seen #ReleaseTheAyerCut trending. Whether Warner Bros. (and more specifically HBO Max) will take note of that remains to be seen, but the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut campaign certainly ended up paying off for Justice League fans. 

Suicide Squad was clearly supposed to be a very different movie to the one that ended up in theaters back in 2016, and rumors have persisted for some time about an alternate final battle involving Jared Leto’s Joker. Lots of teases have been shared about that in recent months, and a handful of images have even been shared online showing the burned up Clown Prince of Crime. 

The latest comes in the form of a script page share by director David Ayer himself which details Joker threatening to detonate the bombs in the necks of each member of Task Force X. 

Joker demands that Harley Quinn gives him Katana’s sword, the Soultaker, but it seems likely this was the moment she decided to remain loyal to her fellow villains rather than go back to her abusive “Puddin’.” Unfortunately, Ayer has yet to share any additional pages from the Ayer Cut’s screenplay.

This is bound to get fans talking, however, and will only further encourage the #ReleaseTheAyerCut movement!

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A lot has changed in the DC Extended Universe since Zack Snyder was working on Justice League, and films like Aquaman, Shazam!, and Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey have pointed to Warner Bros. having moved on from the storylines set in place by the filmmaker during those early years.

When Zack Snyder’s Justice League arrives on HBO Max in early to mid-2021, it’s unlikely to affect future movies set in the DCEU. Instead, the movie/limited series is almost certainly going to be standalone in nature, and Snyder himself has now clarified how it fits into the larger picture.

In an interview with Beyond The Trailer’s Grace Randolph, Snyder explained that his “main focus” is to finish the arc he started with 2013’s Man of Steel and acknowledged that the theatrical cut (which he still has not seen) is likely “tighter in continuity” than his version of Justice League. 

“Frankly, the DC cinematic universe has branched like a tree and blossomed and grown in amazing and great ways,” the filmmaker began. “But for me, where [Justice League’] falls, I believe that it really sort of represents its own path. It’s kind of separate now from the DC cinematic universe continuity. And I think that’s a good thing.”

It sounds like Snyder believes his Justice League now exists in its own separate universe, and it could lead to stories from this world continuing on HBO Max in any number of spinoff films/TV shows.

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With so much secrecy surrounding Warner Bros.’ plans for the DC Extended Universe on HBO Max, it’s hard to know what to expect from the streaming service and this comic book world. One persistent, and very hard to believe, rumour is that Ben Affleck will reprise the role of Batman in a limited series also starring Joe Manganiello as Deathstroke. 

A show like that would obviously serve as The Batman movie Affleck once planned to direct. However, not only is it hard to imagine the actor reprising the role, it’s also impossible to imagine this coming to HBO Max when there’s already a prequel to Matt Reeves’ own take on The Batman. 

Regardless, it’s definitely a nice thought, and artist Bosslogic has shared a couple of very cool fan posters imagining what such a series could look like. Look closely, and you’ll notice that it also teases possible appearances from The Joker and The Riddler, and the fact we missed out on this battle between the Dark Knight and Deathstroke will never not sting! 

Affleck is likely to return for ADR work for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, while Manganiello’s original post-credits scene as Slade Wilson is bound to also be included in that, so that’s something. 

Check out the posters below:
 

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Agent Coulson died at the hands of Loki in The Avengers, and Nick Fury used the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent’s death to manipulate Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and The Hulk into assembling. Since then, Coulson has been resurrected in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but we’ve yet to see him cross paths with anyone other than Fury. 

While it almost feels like the moment has passed, could Coulson ever reunite with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes? The ABC series has existed in something of a bubble these past few years, but during an interview with ComicBook.com, actor Clark Gregg admitted he was disappointed not to get the chance to meet up with the team again before the events of Avengers: Endgame.

However, he does have an idea for how they could cross paths again! 

“Well, I mean, you know, the crush on Cap never dies. But I always, I mean, I felt that same sadness, just because really, the whole thing started, and I think the reason Coulson became what Coulson was really, was about Robert [Downey Jr.] and those scenes together and the repartee,” Gregg explained.

“He makes you that much better and brings out so much more than you might normally see in a scene. The way that he took those scenes and that character on, brought me to life, in a way, so that I didn’t get to have that. I was like, ‘Come on, you haven’t done a one-shot.’ Why couldn’t there be a really cool one-shot where they’re on a mission, we’re on a mission… ‘Oops!’ You know?”

That would have been fun to see, but it’s also somewhat unlikely. However, now that Kevin Feige is in charge of Marvel Television, perhaps he’ll find a way to incorporate the events of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. into the MCU? If nothing else, he could probably find a way to use Coulson in the MCU again!

What do you guys think?

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