Zack Snyder’s Justice League

was the movie that all Snyder fans wanted to see when Joss Whedon’s version of the DCEU film was released in 2017 to a whole host of criticism. They finally got their wish in 2021, when Synder’s recut, reshot, and reedited version of the movie was finally given its time to shine. While it was still not perfect by any means in the eyes of critics, the film seemed to right a cinematic wrong in several ways. And that is something that Ben Affleck

reflected on in a recent interview with GQ.
While Affleck was denied a real runout as the DCEU’s Batman, instead sharing Batman vs Superman with Henry Cavill’s Man of Steel, and subsequently making small appearances in other heroes’ movies, he is still fond of his time as the Dark Knight. In his new interview, Affleck explained why he believes so many fans loved Snyder’s belated cut of Justice League. He said:

“The Snyder Cut, so to speak, is actually the movie that Zack wanted to make. You have a director with a very clear idea of the kind of story they understand and want to tell and they know. And then you’ve got a commercial expectation, like a very valuable IP property. And sometimes they’ll hire this person for their distinctive take and view, and then want to impose on that something different. And the tension between those two things I think was very difficult and caused the first movie to feel very much like neither fish nor fowl. Which happens.”

Affleck also believes that being part of Zack Snyder’s Justice League was something that was actually a very rare occasion, as it is not often that an abandoned version of a movie gets a second chance to put things right. He added:

“You know, a lot of long slow-motion sequences, stuff in black and white, very much R-rated. That movie is very much what Zack’s vision was. And it’s a rare thing that somebody gets the chance to go back and revisit and try to do what they wanted to do.”

Source: GQ