It feels like it was so, so long ago.

The newly restarted Universe of the Jameseshei Gun superhero, nicknamed DCU (for DC Universe) is scheduled to begin on July 11, 2025, with the announcement of Superman. Another feature of live film with Starwar "Man of Steel". People are looking forward to Superman, they are probably not interested in recalling the decade -long December that was DCE (that is: DC Extended Universe), a 16 -film cycle, led by director Zack Snyder. DCE began publishing a non-to-all-good "steel man" in 2013 and was suffocating until the release of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom in 2023. Meanwhile, there was at least one great movie ("Sham!

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DCE had many defenders, but not enough to make it equal success in Marvel's film universe, Disney's film series, which regularly broke records in the box office. DCE's response to MCU's "Avengers" (Osos Vedon's film) was Zack Snyder's "Justice League", released in 2017. That film features Superman (Henry Caville), Batman (Ben Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), The Flash (Ezra Miller), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), and Cyborg (Ray Goode). Monster named Steppenvolf (Cian Hinds). Snyder had to leave the film through production for personal tragedy, and Vedon (unrestricted) stepped in to direct more scenes and re -write the film to make it easier and more humorous.

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The resulting film was not widely loved. That made $ 661 million on a $ 300m budget (!), Which is considered a disappointment as these things go. We do not reconsider the #Releasethesneydercut campaign.

Snyder appeared In the interview show "Pizza Film School" As early as 2023, he talked about his experience of making a "justice league". He noted that even if he did not have to leave for personal reasons, the film had already looked unreliable because Warner Bros. wanted the "Justice League" to be more comical. That, it feels, was the death of the film.

We need to pause to remember that Zack Snyder is a notorious director without humor. His fantasy blockbusters tend to strive for pseudo-philosophical rebirth and climate scenes. His characters rarely joke around, and throw strokes with strict expressions on their faces. This is a contrast to the MCC film, which are bright and comical and undermine their drama with a lot of "quippy" dialogue.

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Since MCC was so successful, Warner Bros. thought that the sense of humor of those films could have much to do with it. Despite hiring a permanent director like Zack Snyder, they still told him to make the "justice league" more funny. Snyder remembers that he received the study note and feels that it is absurd. Snyder frustration can be heard. He said:

"Be honest that when the script ... What happened to the" Justice League ", we had a lot ... The original script was much darker and fiercer. And then when "Batman Against Superman" came out and the studio was like, "not funny enough. People want funny movies. They want funny things in it", "We went back and ... a kind of light film, overall."

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Snyder's "Batman vs. It seems that the mandate in the studio for Justice League was supposed to do more as "Avengers", although BVS was still a hit (making over $ 874 million on a $ 325 million budget).

When Snyder left the "Justice League", Warner Bros. got the desire and hired the boy "Avengers" to do the same. The Theatrical Cutting of Justice League was digitally lit in post-production, and Vedon inserted many jokes jokes and lighter moments on the order of the WB. The result of the film was a thing of chaos, with some scenes that looked smoking and gloomy, and others look bright and silly.

The rest is history. "Justice League" was considered a bomb, and many fans noticed the clash of Snyder's darkness and the ease of Vedon. For years, fans have speculated what could happen if Snyder could make the film in their own way. Some assumed that Snyder had actually completed his version of Justice League and that Vedon's disruption was 100% score of study notes. This is not true, but it does not prevent the campaign #Ereleasethesneydercut.

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In 2021, Warner's Bros. finally joined the pressure of the fans and gave Snyder an additional $ 70 million to complete the "justice league" as much as he wanted. He turned into a four -hour movie It was posted on HBO Max in the middle of a locking of the coins, and it was ... better. The story was the same, but the story was clearer. There was also an additional villain in the form of Steppenvolf's nephew, Darkseid (Ray Porter). Strangely, both CUT 2017 and 2021 are equally fun.

Of course, Snyder still had to compromise, even with full control. He spoke more about the original ideas of the script he had, and how in one draft he used the LOVE story of Lois Lane (Amy Adams) and ... well, not Superman. Snyder said:

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"I would say that my decrease in the" justice league "is a kind between ... I always saved some of the more intense things I shot anyway. What I thought, in retrospect, maybe they want. In the original script, Lois and Batman gathered briefly. There was all this other thing. And they were all like "Oh my God, you can't do it."

Due to the DCC, DCE is immediately transferred to the footnote, an unofficial version of the DC heroes that we should no longer pay attention to. But the real ones remember. We remember how drama and money were involved.