Zack Snyder’s Justice League features a ‘massive cliffhanger’ ending

You could be forgiven to assume – given that it lasts four hours, the features tons of extremely expensive new footage shot just to make it a workable movie, and seems specificy designed to say goodbye to DC Films’ broader superhero franchise ambitions – that Justice League by Zack Snyder could be the director’s last word on this particular set of deeply desaturated characters. But you would also be forgiven for assuming that the above thought was complete and utterly naïve. idiocy, because, hey: Have you met this guy from Zack Snyder? If you think he is is going to stop pushing his very specific, very violent, very gray version of the blockbuster superhero until he is well and truly done with it, you have lost the spirit of Motherboxing.

Hence a whole bunch of revelations about IGNThe Fan Fest 2021 event today, including news that Justice League by Zack Snyder, although this is arguably as definitive a statement about the Justice League as any man could possibly hope to do, will always end on what Snyder called a “Massive cliffhanger.” This, despite the fact that Snyder knows that DC has moved away from its efforts to Avengers on his staff superhero movie franchise, and that one to Snyder Justice League 2 this will almost certainly never happen. But hey: someone paid for all that Darkseid CGI, so they might as well use it, right?

Speaking of CGI: Snyder also showed off a “Motherbox” animated clip that serves as a promo for the film, in what could better be nicknamed the spiritual sense. That is to say that he presents slow, melodramatic panning of heavy metal images of Justice League members, while a song by Tom Waits makes its way through the dust in the background. It is, like much of the surrounding material Justice League by Zack Snyder–Jesus joker, the special version “Justice Is Gray” on the way for people too overwhelmed by the desaturated version of the new cut, the pure Leonard Cohen-ness of all that-brilliant, in his total immunity to parody. How to poke fun at the anguished religious iconography of Aquaman battling tentacle monsters while sad folk rock is playing? What aspect could you possibly emphasize for a comedic effect? It’s the critical equivalent of the back rope, exhausting all mockery with the blatant character of its invitation to mock.

In fact, “exhausting” (with a secondary order “exhaustive”) is the general mood of this whole project and of this latest press campaign on his behalf, speculation about who this great “hero cameo” Snyder promised at the end of the movie (Martian Manhunter is the easy money, although people with very short memories rather hope for the Green Lantern Corps), at the repeated affirmation of the director today (doubling on previous feelings) that Ray Fisher’s Cyborg is the heart of the film, and the team. The last comes even as Fisher and Warner Media have made a commitment again another series of mutual attacks against each other today, Fisher continuing to claim that DC Films’ Walter Hamada interfered with investigations into an alleged misconduct on the set of Joss Whedon’s version of the film and that Warner shot back bragging a statement from one of the investigators in question, defend the character and conduct of Hamada. Snyder’s defense of his star is admirable, but it also shows how strange this whole Snyder Cut project has been, with a director actively touting the work of an actor who is now essentially at war with the studio producing the film, for uncertain and uncertain profit or gain.

Justice League by Zack Snyder released on March 18th. Rest.