After years of fans campaigning and demanding that Warner Bros. #ReleaseTheSnyderCut, the dream became a reality in 2021 when Zack Snyder's Justice League premiered on HBO Max.
While we'd expected the filmmaker to simply finish off his director's cut, Snyder instead shot new scenes and laid the groundwork for the sequels we'd later learn about in storyboard form (ideas included Superman falling under Darkseid's control and Bruce Wayne having a baby with Lois Lane).
Even before DC Studios was formed, the odds of those follow-ups happening seemed slim. Now, it feels completely outside the realm of possibility, though there are plenty of Snyder's fans who hope he can finish the story as a comic book or animated feature.
That would be one way to silence the #RestoreTheSnyderVerse movement, anyway!
Talking in the latest issue of Empire Magazine, Snyder was asked if he'd conclude his Justice trilogy in animation. "Yeah, absolutely," he responded. "That'd be fun. That'd be cool."
Honestly, given the low production costs of Warner Bros. Animation's direct-to-DVD offerings, we're not sure why this hasn't happened already. Snyder even has experience in that realm, overseeing Watchmen tie-in, Tales of the Black Freighter.
Elsewhere in the conversation, Snyder was asked if he's still surprised by the controversy which surrounds his decision to have Batman and Superman kill in movies like Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. It's no secret that he believes superheroes should end the lives of their foes, and the director doubled down on that during this interview.
"The only reason I’m not surprised is that some people got brainwashed by a bunch of material that’s not consistent with true canon," he stated. "And that’s fine. They’re on their own journey."
What is the true canon? We have absolutely no idea.
"I don’t think anything is going to happen right away," Snyder said in 2020 when asked about finishing the DCEU arc that began with Man of Steel. "But Jim [Lee] and I talk quite a bit. And we talked a lot about maybe doing a book or a comic book down the road just to kind of finish this."
"We haven’t locked anything in, but if it’s a thing that would be interesting to the fandom, they can always ask Jim about it."
For the time being, the Snyderverse remains in limbo and is unlikely to ever be finished unless something drastic changes at Warner Bros. and DC Studios.