JUSTICE LEAGUE's Ares Actor Says Greek Pantheon Was Supposed To Fight Darkseid While Discussing Contract Woes

JUSTICE LEAGUE's Ares Actor Says Greek Pantheon Was Supposed To Fight Darkseid While Discussing Contract Woes

While detailing how post-production changes affects his pay from Justice League, Nick McKinless revealed that in Zack Snyder's version of Justice League, Ares has a 1-on-1 fight w/ Darkseid.

By MarkJulian - May 26, 2019 08:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Justice League
Source: vis ScreenRant
Nick McKinless previously disclosed to CBM that he wasn't thrilled with having David Thewlis' face superimposed over his in Justice League but it seems that switch has had greater impact than just not being properly credited.  While the other actors who portrayed Zeus (Sergi Constance) and (Artemis) Aurore Lauzeral are receiving residuals from the film, he is not.  

Thanks to a deleted scene from Wonder Woman, murals in a Themyscira temple revealed that it was Darkseid who attacked the Earth all those years ago, not Steppenwolf.  At the time, Darkseid was going by the name Uxas and had not yet acquired the Omega Force, which transforms him into the Darkseid comic book fans know today.  Justice League was going to depict a more powerful "Uxas" returning to retrieve the Mother Boxes as part of a larger quest to discover the Anti-Life Equation.

Per McKinless, his attack on Steppenwolf, as seen in Justice League was supposed to be a 1-on-1 fight with Darkseid, where the Greek gods arrive to turn the tide of battle.

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KyoShiRo330
KyoShiRo330 - 5/26/2019, 8:57 AM
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 5/26/2019, 10:08 AM
@KyoShiRo330 - This was the exact image I needed to see after coming home from a 2 hour gym session, if only to drive home the fact that I'm never going to get *there*
MexCowboyNation
MexCowboyNation - 5/26/2019, 3:25 PM
@OmegaDaGrodd - Well quit eating pizza...

OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 5/26/2019, 4:32 PM
@MexCowboyNation - I feel this gif on a personal level
RolandD
RolandD - 5/26/2019, 9:02 AM
Why would he want to fight Darkseid while discussing contract woes ?Wouldn’t all that contract negotiations be distracting to the fight?
GreedoSarducci
GreedoSarducci - 5/26/2019, 7:51 PM
@RolandD - I'm so glad you caught that. I was about to crack a joke on it myself, but you saved me the trouble. Good work!
RolandD
RolandD - 5/26/2019, 7:57 PM
@GreedoSarducci - With a username like GreedoSarducci, you never need to crack another joke again!
GreedoSarducci
GreedoSarducci - 5/27/2019, 4:52 AM
@RolandD - LOL... I like to precede my reputation as often as possible.
Kumkani
Kumkani - 5/26/2019, 9:04 AM
Not being credited sucks to be frank, and David Thewlis' Ares was shit anyway. An Ares vs Darkseid may have been cool to see but this whole Snyder cut business doesn't matter anymore. If anything it just shows that movie would have had too much going on.
FleischerSupes
FleischerSupes - 5/26/2019, 9:05 AM
Best part of that movie.
Kevwebsz
Kevwebsz - 5/26/2019, 9:11 AM
More pieces to add to the mess that is Justice League. What a terrible handling of what could've been the next great universe to jump into. A JL movie should be the only other franchise that can fight for highest grossing of all time but it'll never get anywhere near there :/
demery
demery - 5/26/2019, 11:44 AM
@Kevwebsz - Should've got George Miller to come back and work on this new incarnation of JUSTICE LEAGUE with better effects, creative action, memorable characters, good dialogue...The list could go on that couldn't made something if Snyder or WB [frick]ed it up.
madhombre
madhombre - 5/26/2019, 9:14 AM
It’s sad to see that Flashback reduced to a two minute scene.
I read that it was originally in the start of the movie ( instead of that mutilated Superman face scene) and would’ve been about twenty minutes.
A damn shame we didn’t get to see that.
I hope WB eventually releases it.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 5/26/2019, 9:22 AM
Greek Pantheon Was Supposed To Fight Darkseid While Discussing Contract Woes

"Listen here, Darkseid! I was promised two lines of dialogue minimum!" ℙ𝕆𝕎 "And when I arrived on the day..." 𝕎ℍ𝔸𝕄 "...the air conditioning in my trailer wasn't working!" 𝕆𝕆𝔽 "And when I talked to SAG about this..."

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