A.V. Opinions: Even as a Snyder skeptic, I wanted this movie
I’ve never been the biggest Zack Snyder fan. That said? The Snyder movie I really wanted to see, the one I wish they had the guts to greenlight is the Justice League sequel that was shaping up to be a full-on Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic epic. Seriously, that thing would’ve been wild.
Snyder had a vision for a sequel to Justice League, and it wasn’t just another CGI punch-fest. It was a scorched-earth, guerrilla-warfare, broken-Earth future where everything had gone to hell. This would’ve built on the “Knightmare” sequence we saw in Batman v Superman and expanded on in Zack Snyder’s Justice League. In that timeline, Darkseid has conquered Earth after manipulating Superman with the Anti-Life Equation, which takes hold after Lois Lane dies. Superman loses all hope, and Earth’s greatest protector becomes its biggest threat. Now we’re living in the apocalypse.
Batman is leading a desperate resistance made up of Flash, Cyborg, Mera, Deathstroke, and even Joker. Batman and Joker teaming up. If that’s not the end times, I don’t know what is. Snyder even described it as a mix between The Last Supper and Fury Road. It would’ve been sand-swept, savage, emotionally loaded, and full of uneasy alliances. This wasn’t just a superhero team-up, this was a war movie in a burned-out, godless wasteland.
The plot was going to include Flash doing major time-travel damage control. That weird moment in BvSwhere he shows up in Bruce Wayne’s vision? That was supposed to mean something. The whole arc would’ve had Flash going back to warn Bruce at the right time and potentially resetting the timeline. This was going to be DC’s version of Infinity War meets Mad Max, with a side of Flashpoint. It was bold. It was dark. It was risky. And I think it would’ve been amazing.
Even though I’m not a huge Snyder fan, I really wish they would’ve let him finish his story. I believe he wanted to do two more Justice League movies, and I know that was ambitious, but they could’ve at least given him one more. Let him cap it off. Let him go nuts. Because that movie, the post-apocalyptic war between gods and fallen heroes is the one I wanted to see most.
-Brad McBoom