JUSTICE LEAGUE VFX Artist Says That A Zack Snyder Cut Of The Film Does Not Exist
We've always maintained that Zack Snyder's original cut of Justice League is unlikely to exists in anything close to a completed form, and that's now being backed up by a VFX artist who worked on the film.
That petition to get Warner Bros. to release a director's cut of Justice League has certainly been getting a lot of traction, but the studio can't distribute something that doesn't exist no matter how many signatures they're bombarded with.
Though Snyder will have had some kind of rough assembly cut by the time he departed the production, Joss Whedon completed the film and that's all there is to it. Still, some fans are firm in their belief that WB has enough footage to cobble something together that would be closer to Snyder's original vision for the DC superhero flick.
During a Reddit AMA, a VFX artist that worked on the movie had the following to say on the matter:
“The film is found in the edit process, rarely does a director start shooting with the entire film plotted out. Some things work, some things don’t. There is no Snyder cut – obviously he had a rough edit in process when he left in February, but the reshoots were done 6 months after that, and he had no final version of the film.
Sure, Zack would’ve probably done things differently to how the movie turned out, but that’s it. There isn’t a secret Zack version hidden somewhere. It just doesn’t exist. There is no cut. People who spread the rumor are the worst, perpetuating rumors of processes they don’t understand.”
Of course, this doesn't mean that we won't get an extended edition of the film on home release, as we do know that a lot of scenes wound up on the cutting room floor. As things stand, though, a director's cut without any of the scenes Whedon shot/reshot is probably not going to see the light of day.