This past few days saw San Diego's annual Comic-Con migrate online after the Covid crisis cancelled the physical convention. But while many movies and TV shows were represented by pre-filed virtual panels, bigger outfits such as DC and Marvel Studios stayed away, preferring to host their own events. And then there's Zack Snyder's cut of Justice League, which scored its own "Justice Con", in which the director did not hold back on his plans, which include the fact that he won't be using any footage that Joss Whedon shot for the theatrical version.
"There would be no chance on earth that I would use a shot that was made prior, er, after I left the movie. I’d destroy the movie, I would set it on fire before I would use a single frame that I did not photograph,” Snyder said when asked about the possibility during his panel. "That is a f***ing hard fact.
“I literally would blow that f—ing thing up if I thought for a second. Anything you see in this movie which reminds you of the other theatrical release, which again famously I have not, I literally have never seen, would be because that was a thing I had done, and he borrowed for whatever that monster [was] that you guys saw in the theater." So... that's a no? It certainly casts a different light on the Justice League situation, which of course saw Snyder leave after shooting much of his version following a family tragedy. Whedon was brought in to write shoot the movie that ended up on screens. It certainly sound like there's little love there.
Snyder has more to say, and you can see that in the panel below, which also includes a snippet from the Snyder Cut featuring Henry Cavill wearing his black Superman suit.