Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
- The original script for Zack Snyder's Justice League was written over a decade before production finally began in 2021.
- The incredible score for Zack Snyder's Justice League was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- During the filming of Zack Snyder's Justice League, Ben Affleck improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
Zack Snyder's Justice League is a 2021 American superhero film directed by Zack Snyder, a radically different version of the 2017 theatrical Justice League. Running four hours and two minutes, the film represents Snyder's original vision for the story, completed after a massive fan campaign pressured Warner Bros. into funding approximately $70 million in post-production, visual effects, and a new score by Tom Holkenborg. The film follows the same basic premise β Batman and Wonder Woman assembling the Justice League to stop an alien invasion β but expands virtually every element: Cyborg's origin story and emotional arc become the film's centerpiece, the Flash receives extended character development, villain Steppenwolf is redesigned and given clearer motivation, and the ultimate threat Darkseid appears as a looming presence.
The existence of Zack Snyder's Justice League is unprecedented in film history β never before has a major studio funded the completion and release of a director's cut that is essentially a different film from the theatrical version. The four-hour runtime, presented in a 4:3 aspect ratio intended for IMAX, was divided into six chapters and an epilogue. Critical reception was significantly more positive than the 2017 version, with particular praise for Ray Fisher's expanded Cyborg storyline and the film's more cohesive emotional arc.
The film debuted exclusively on HBO Max and became the streaming platform's most-watched title upon release.
