JUSTICE LEAGUE Stuntman Reveals Why Warner Bros. Cut The Atlanteans Vs. Parademons Fight Scene

JUSTICE LEAGUE Stuntman Reveals Why Warner Bros. Cut The Atlanteans Vs. Parademons Fight Scene

One of the stunt performers who worked on Justice League has opened up about why a key sequence pitting Parademons against Atlanteans ended up being cut from the final film. Read on for details...

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By JoshWilding - Oct 01, 2020 04:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Justice League

Joss Whedon decided to make a lot of changes to Justice League at the behest of Warner Bros. (and presumably producers Geoff Johns and Jon Berg), but those will be rectified with the release of "The Snyder Cut" on HBO Max next year. Now, one of the movie's stunt performers has shed some light on why a pivotal action sequence was cut. 

The scene in question saw a number of Atlanteans take on Steppenwolf's Parademons, and Erol Ismail has now told fans that Warner Bros. made the decision to cut the sequence because it was deemed too violent!

While he was pressed for specific details, Ismail refused due to still being under NDA. 

It definitely felt like Whedon toned down the darker aspects of Snyder's Justice League, so it's probably not surprising that this battle didn't fit into the cut he would deliver to studio execs. 

Common sense says we'll now get to see it on HBO Max, and it should be interesting to discover just how violent the scene in question really was. The filmmaker's take on Atlantis should also be fun to see, especially as his work on Justice League obviously came before James Wan started shooting 2018's Aquaman. 

What do you guys think?
 

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BillyBatson1000
BillyBatson1000 - 10/1/2020, 4:20 AM
Parademon.lite available in pink.
MarvelousMarty
MarvelousMarty - 10/1/2020, 4:21 AM
The articles on CBM don't take very long to digest any more. He reveals why, "it was too violent", the end. Next.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 10/1/2020, 4:36 AM
@MarvelousMarty - It's a single potato chip of a story.

And frankly, I appreciate something like that now and again. Plus, it helps WB distract from Ray Fisher.
Origame
Origame - 10/1/2020, 4:52 AM
@Spock0Clock - It's one thing to have this potato chip article occasionally. But when its to the point of this being almost the only type of article anymore and they even cut up interviews to give us multiple of these potato chip articles, I'd say thats a problem.
Goldboink
Goldboink - 10/1/2020, 7:26 AM
@Spock0Clock -
Today is Ray Fisher day. He is due for his weekly outrage.

Starting in 3, 2, 1...
TheBlueMorpho
TheBlueMorpho - 10/1/2020, 4:26 AM

WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 10/1/2020, 4:36 AM
Because Kevin Tsujihara
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 10/1/2020, 4:39 AM
Total sympathy for them. Sucks to be asked to film a scene (especially as stunt people, where the risk of injury is there, and even more-so in an outdoor shoot with bad weather) that just gets cut anyway.
inkniron
inkniron - 10/1/2020, 7:21 AM
@Spock0Clock - nah, no sympathy here. Stunt people are mostly nameless stand ins or extras to most of us anyway. They got paid, I'm sure. Just part of the gig.
Kumkani
Kumkani - 10/1/2020, 4:47 AM
Well I don't really care about seeing such a scene but it must be pretty shit to have done all that work, only to not see the final product.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 10/1/2020, 4:50 AM
“The Zack Snyder Bible”
Kumkani
Kumkani - 10/1/2020, 4:55 AM
@BlackBeltJones - One of the most images I've ever seen on the internet
GhostDog
GhostDog - 10/1/2020, 5:01 AM
@Kumkani - this is very...telling
SnideCut
SnideCut - 10/1/2020, 5:16 AM
@Kumkani - Its frightening how truly dumb some people can be.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 10/1/2020, 5:02 AM
Wonder if it'll be on ZS cut. The costumes look pretty good, and I wonder what they look like in action
VileBlood
VileBlood - 10/1/2020, 5:03 AM
CBM used to be great but now its been reduced to posting daily articles about the Snyder cut.
emeraldtaurus
emeraldtaurus - 10/1/2020, 5:53 AM
.....because they're idiots!
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 10/1/2020, 5:56 AM
ohh, come on, too violent? it's a bunch of CG cannon fodder fighting a bunch of Super Sentai army builders, how the hell you do that in such a violent way the studio cuts it out? either Snyder was being over-indulgent with his edgy 15 year old self (which I would believe) or WB got too panicky about handling their superhero movie franchise for children to someone who's on record of saying he would have Batman raped if he could (which I would also believe).
Kyos
Kyos - 10/1/2020, 6:30 AM
I'm actually totally okay with Snyder seemingly wanting to make R-rated movies that are 3-4 hours long. It's just really not a good approach for the foundation of a mainstream DC movie universe.
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 10/1/2020, 6:34 AM
@Kyos - I started watching The Boys very recently and I can tell one of the reasons this works is because they're using proxy superheroes to the mainstream ones: Homelander is Superman, Queen Maeve is Wonder Woman, Deep is Aquaman, etc. Snyder's work on DC movies reads as if he wanted to do that but he actually got permission to use the real ones.
Battabing
Battabing - 10/1/2020, 7:32 AM
@Spidey91 - But then WB realized he was actually damaging the characters. Homelander would let a plane full of people crash, just as Snyder's Superman would let an oil tanker crash into a garage where people are taking cover, or disable a spaceship right over a city.

That's a day in the life for Homelander, but that's really problematic for Superman.
JustAChillFan
JustAChillFan - 10/1/2020, 7:05 AM
If anyone has watched community, I was rewatching the series the last week or so. When I got to the episode where the dean is making a new commercial for greendale, I got major snyder cult vibes lmao.
VileBlood
VileBlood - 10/1/2020, 7:12 AM
@JustAChillFan - Good call.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 10/1/2020, 7:36 AM
@JustAChillFan -



Actually, now that you mention it... I seem to remember Snyder fans accusing Marvel copying basically everything in Phase 3 from Snyder's (planned) movies as if Snyder invented concepts like "superheroes fighting each other" and "time travel" and "the heroes lose as a cliffhanger in part one then part two takes place in the aftermath". All things that have been part of fiction, and especially comicbook fiction for decades or centuries.

But Marvel must have gotten them from Snyder.
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