Warner Bros. Pictures has no plans to do a follow-up to “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” and now the director himself is getting honest about just how fraught the relationship between himself and the studio got.
Out doing promotion for “Army of the Dead” and two months on from the release of the ‘SnyderCut’ on the HBO Max service, Snyder spoke with Uproxx and says working with the studio on the film was not easy.
Indeed it sounds like some at WarnerMedia were resentful for having to fold into the demands of the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut campaign, and they let him know it:
“It was cool to do the Snyder Cut of Justice League and that was fun and everything. But Warner Bros. still tortured me the whole time for whatever reason, they can’t help it. I don’t know why I’m such a f—ing pain in their ass because I’m not trying to be, honestly. If you analyze what’s happened with Warner Bros., it’s not a normal situation. It’s a once-in-a-generation bizarro situation.
I don’t want to get in trouble either, but I’m not going to sit here and let them act like that and not… Look, they’re the ones that have been aggressive, not me. I haven’t done anything. Every day they’d turn around and do some weird passive-aggressive thing. So, I don’t know. It’s weird. But look, like I say, I had a great time making Justice League. I’m super glad I got to finish it.”
Snyder went on to say he had no issues with Netflix on making “Army of the Dead,” echoing many filmmakers who seem to appreciate the non-interference approach of the streamer: “I just had an amazing experience with Netflix, and it was awesome, and we had a great partnership and an incredibly great experience.”
In a separate interview for The Sunday Times, Snyder also revealed he was concerned what the response would be from Warners after backing the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut campaign as WarnerMedia did face much harassment from some of the more overzealous elements of it: “I was more worried the studio would sue me. Do something to silence me.”
Snyder then went on to cite that the fandom raised $750,000 for suicide prevention and mental health awareness – money that’s saved lives and so “for me, it’s kind of hard to be mad at them.”
He also has only praise for where Warners is going with Superman next, telling Collider that having a Black Superman is an idea that’s “a bold and cool and probably long overdue move… [I’m] interested to see what happens.” Nonetheless, he adds “he [Henry Cavill] is my Superman.”
