It’s kind of telling that Warner Bros is sticking by Justice League (2017) as the canonical version of the film and not Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021).
This is the same movie where:
Joss Whedon oversexualised Wonder Woman by adding in gratuitous butt shots (which Snyder removed) and had The Flash fall on Wonder Woman’s cleavage, a joke stolen from his previous movie; Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Gadot reportedly refused to shoot that scene and so her stunt double was used.
Whedon also reportedly threatened Gadot’s career and locked her in a room.
The majority of POC characters were erased from the movie such as: Elinor Stone (Karen Bryson) Ryan Choi (Kai Zheng), Iris West (Kiersey Clemons) etc.
Executives Toby Emmerich, Geoff Johns and Jon Beg held racist conversations that led to the cutting of said POC characters.
Cyborg’s emotional back story and character arc, was thrown completely out of the window.
Ray Fisher was told that “we can’t an angry Black man at the center of the movie” by a literal room full of studio executives.
The head of DC Films called Ray Fisher and told him not to throw Geoff Johns under the bus, thus attempting to derail the investigation.
Cyborg’s origins were reshot (despite being shown in Batman v Superman) to highlight the existence of his penis.
In the fallout of the movie and Ray Fisher’s accusations, he has subsequently been fired by WB from the upcoming Flash movie. (A movie where there was never a script without Cyborg.)
The movie was reshot, re-edited and re-hauled massively from Zack Snyder’s original vision whilst the man was in mourning for his daughter who had died that year.
Deborah Snyder and Christopher Nolan, upon seeing this version made a vow that Zack could never see it as “it would break his heart.”
Before the movie was released, Deborah had to report an incident involving Whedon to studio executives.
WB’s continual gaslighting of both Ray Fisher (which still continues at the time of writing) and of the fans by painting them solely as toxic, whilst ignoring the $500,000 raised for AFSP and the toxic environment they helped to create on the set of Justice League (2017); cannot be understated. The attitude taken by the studio, to protect and enable abusers is completely and utterly abhorrent and should not be tolerated.
Even after Zack was granted the rights to release his version of Justice League, WB simply wanted to release the movie in it’s unfinished format and told Zack that he could not use the original ending scene of Bruce Wayne meeting John Stewart (a scene Snyder filmed part of in 2016 and the rest in October 2020). Because of this, Snyder almost walked from the movie as he didn’t “want to take a person of colour out of this movie.”
At the end of the day, Zack Snyder’s Justice League isn’t just a victory for the fans who campaigned long and hard over the last three years but, in the words of Ray Fisher, it’s “ a righting of so many wrongs,”.
Accountability > Entertainment!
