Zack Snyder Says His Plans For The DCEU After JUSTICE LEAGUE Were "Better" Than FLASHPOINT
In another Vero post, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice director Zack Snyder has teased his far-reaching plans for the DCEU and it sounds like Flashpoint has nothing on what he had in mind. Check it out!
We may never fully know what Zack Snyder's Justice League plans were, but Kevin Smith recently shed some light on the director's vision (see below) and it sounds like the he was going to head down the same sort of route as the Injustice video games with a storyline that would have culminated in the heroes battling Darkseid on an Earth ravaged by war.
In Snyder's recent Vero post about Ben Affleck's Batman departure, he confirmed that he heard about the news at the same time everyone else did and when one fan asked if he was building to a Flashpoint adaptation, he promised that his ambitions were "better."
While it definitely sounds like Warner Bros. was considering a Flashpoint movie, that future Barry Allen in the armour we saw in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice clearly hailed from the "Knightmare" timeline and would have been further explored by Snyder as his movies continued to unfold.
It would be incredible to learn what Snyder's plans for the DCEU were, but you have to hope he'll one day delve into that in more detail (maybe he could write a comic book series or something similar). For now, though, it seems we'll have to just make do with the odd reveal here and there.
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breakdown of Snyder's Justice League plans!
According to Smith, crew members saw Jim Lee storyboards for all three movies. While the first instalment we ended up seeing (with Joss Whedon's reshoots) mostly played out how Snyder planned, the biggest change was that the ending would have featured an appearance from Darkseid as he stared down the team through the Boom Tube Steppenwolf escaped in.
In the sequel, however, things would have taken a cosmic turn for the iconic heroes...
Apparently, the League would have taken the fight to Apokolips in a movie which may have also featured New Genesis. It was in this movie that the Green Lantern Corps would have got involved and Smith claims that the scene with Alfred in the Justice League trailer where he says "Let's hope you're not too late..." was originally going to be with Green Lantern, not Superman.
Crew members even had green lights which they shined on Jeremy Irons but plans clearly changed and the Corps remained relegated to those flashback scenes.
Justice League 2 would have featured a dark ending along the lines of The Empire Strikes Back or Avengers: Infinity War as the team would have been defeated in space before Darkseid arrived on Earth and, in Smith's words, "levels it."
Needless to say, that would have made things difficult for the solo movies Warner Bros. had planned but it would have nicely led to that "Knightmare" vision Batman had becoming a reality and the Flash having to travel back in time.
As you might expect, Justice League 3 would have pitted the heroes against Darkseid for one final stand against the villain as they attempted to set things right. The director stops there but this adventure presumably would have featured time-travel and possibly even the evil Superman we saw kill Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. It's hard to say.
Either way, Smith says, "I really feel like hearing what we heard, we might have missed something." It's hard to disagree with that and, if we're lucky, Snyder might one day comment on these plans himself. What do you guys think? Share your thoughts below.