Zack Snyder is doing the rounds to promote his upcoming cut of Justice League, and while he's admitted that a sequel is highly unlikely, the filmmaker did once have two follow-ups mapped out.
That was set to be a two-part epic involving Darkseid, time-travel, the Knightmare timeline, and even classic Batman villain The Riddler. Talking to Beyond The Trailer, the filmmaker revealed that there were tentative talks about Edward Nygma being part of Ben Affleck's take on The Batman.
"At that point, Ben [Affleck] was considering it," Snyder explained, "but I don't think he'd committed to directing it yet. It was that early."
"I liked the use of Riddler by Lex to figure out [the Anti-Life Equation]," he said of The Riddler's place in a Justice League sequel. "I thought that as a concept was really cool that we would employ him to understand it. It's a big equation, it's a mystery, and he's the one that could decipher it, and he does, but you'll have to read the thing to find out." Snyder added that he "thought it was pretty cool. He's like a tool. And he was doing it for Lex."
The filmmaker concluded by revealing, "The fact that Batman's journey at that part of the movie is to try and find out what Lex is up to. So he would have tracked him to this place where he was working it out. It's just like a movie moment where he's following the traces of the mystery to find him."
It's fascinating to think about just how ambitious Snyder's plans for the DC Extended Universe once were, as his vision for these Justice League movies also included the Injustice League/Legion of Doom at one time.
How do we know that? Well, you can read a detailed breakdown of the sequel's plot by clicking here.
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