With all the hirings and talk about the additional photography for Zack Snyder’s restoring of the original cut of “Justice League,” not to mention the fact that Snyder has to stretch it out to four one-hour episodes, one could easily assume they’re shooting a whole bunch of new footage.
Snyder himself however indicates that’s not the case. Appearing recently on Beyond the Trailer (via Heroic Hollywood) to discuss how his new cut was coming along, he says the recent reshoots are really only to add around four minutes of new footage for the HBO Max version.
Snyder says: “I will say that in the end it’s going to probably be about four minutes or five minutes of additional photography for the entire movie. In the four hours that is Justice League, maybe four minutes.”
At least five actors (Affleck, Gadot, Fisher, Manganiello, Leto) were called back for reshoots in Los Angeles but their new scenes seemingly won’t be adding much to the final runtime – most of it coming from the stuff Snyder already shot. Indeed the reshoots apparently only took around a week to shoot.
At last report the project’s budget was estimated to be around $70 million and it’s not clear how much of that went into the shooting vs. how much into special effects work and other areas.
The talk follows Snyder revealing to The Nerd Queens earlier this week that he would have loved to have had his frequent collaborator Carla Gugino in the role of Catwoman opposite Ben Affleck’s version of Batman.
The film’s cinematographer Fabian Wagner has also teased that a big reveal is coming on November 17th. Whether it’s a featurette, a clip, new photos or a specific air date isn’t clear.
“Zack Snyder’s Justice League” will premiere as a four-hour miniseries on HBO Max sometime in 2021.
