Zack Snyder's Initial Love Story Plan For Justice League Would Have Completely Butchered It
A love triangle that would make one of the main characters feel betrayed.
Four years after Joss Whedon's Justice League flopped at the box office, the movie's original director, Zack Snyder, set out to restore justice.
The DC team epic, in which superheroes banded together to challenge the Steppenwolf, disappointed comic book fans.
Usually people try to forget creative failures, but in the case of Justice League, there is a paradox: the failure of the movie only increased the desire to see Snyder's version.
Both the director and the fans rallied for the Snyder cut to be released.
Zack Snyder's version, for which he took an extra budget from Warner Bros., looks complete and whole. Bruce Wayne, played by the deadpan Ben Affleck, assembles a team of superhumans to fight Steppenwolf.
Later, Superman is resurrected – already with a shaved mustache, without the very thing that Whedon made and allowed to turn the movie into a meme.
Consistent style, darkness and monumental tone – Snyder threw all his strength to make the viewer forget the past and respect Justice League.
But it turns out that Snyder had an idea that, if implemented, would likely make most fans angry. And this is the romantic relationship between Bruce Wayne and Lois Lane, who mourned Superman.
The idea was that Bruce falls in love with Lois and then realizes that the only way to save the world was to resurrect Superman.
He has a crazy conflict ahead of him, because Lois, of course, still loves Superman.
Batman should have confessed to Alfred that he never had a life outside of the cave, and he was led to believe by Lois that if he gathered a group of gods, his work would be done and he could leave.
And that, of course, would never work for him. Just like it didn't work for Snyder, because the studio said no... thankfully.
The conflict and moral questions that such a love triangle would raise could certainly be interesting.
However, considering that it's extremely hard to believe that Lois would trade Superman for Batman, and that Superman/Lois is one of the most popular pairings among DC fans, rejecting such a twist seems like a saving grace of sorts.