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Zack Snyder's cut of "Justice League" debuts
Thursday on HBO Max, a subscription streaming service launched
last year by AT&T Inc's WarnerMedia.
"This movie would not exist at all without the fans, without the
fans' pressure and without their constant drumbeat and without
their dedication on such a level that you can't even imagine,"
Snyder told Reuters in an interview.
Snyder and his wife Deborah, a producer, left the original film
before it was finished following the death of their daughter.
The movie was completed by "Avengers" director Joss Whedon and
fell flat with critics and fans who thought the storytelling was
disjointed and the visual effects messy.
Fans began lobbying for WarnerMedia to release Snyder's version
of the film. They even bought a billboard in New York’s Times
Square in October 2019 to promote their cause.
In an unusual move, the company agreed and let Snyder rework a
black-and-white version that he had completed in 2017.
The new movie goes into greater detail about many characters,
which include Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman
and Cyborg, and explains the motives of their enemy,
Steppenwolf. Stars include Ben Affleck as Batman, Henry Cavill
as Superman and Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman.
Critics have generally applauded Snyder's version. The film
scored a 77% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a website that
aggregates reviews, as of Tuesday, compared with 40% for the
2017 movie.
The new film runs four hours and is divided into chapters of
around 30 minutes each to give options for viewers watching at
home, Deborah Snyder said.
"They can watch it, binge watch it all the way through or they
can watch it in parts," she said.
(Reporting by Rollo Ross; Writing by Lisa Richwine; Editing by
David Gregorio)
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