Why would anyone care about this?
Because it's fascinating like any alternative films, like when you get the Donner Cut of
Superman II. Or Richard Wise's cut of
Star Trek: The Motion Picture. On and on with director cuts. The Donner Cut is a similar thing that animated fans for years because he had already shot 75% of the movie. Snyder got further, he shot a whole version, he even got the effects done. Mainly, Snyder shot a different movie than we got, the movie we got is borderline nonsensical and consists of mostly people standing around talking because so much of it is replaced with budget-less reshoots.
We already got one "Snyder Cut" and it was fascinating, BvS's "ultimate cut" is what Snyder originally submitted, the theatrical cut was not done by him alone but along with WB to trim it down to two and a half hours. The entire Superman plot disappears from the film, as does most of Lois' plot and the details on everything Luther. BvS's theatrical cut is pretty nonsensical and there's basically no understanding as to why Superman or Batman are doing anything at all. Snyder's cut restores how Luther manipulates Bruce AND Clark into questioning if Superman is good for the world. Sure, BvS ultimately falls apart, the Martha scene even explained is bad, Doomsday should have never been in the film even if it does give Diana some great moments, the logistics of Lois and the spear never make any sense, etc. But the movie is far more interesting when Lois is uncovering some kind of plot Luther is engaged in and doing real investigating shit, Bruce and Clark are being manipulated, Clark now has reasons to distrust Bruce after doing his investigating, etc. The movie doesn't kill time until Bruce and Clark fight like the theatrical cut, shit happens to set that fight up. Is it good or not, I dunno, it's like
Man of Steel in a lot of ways. I think it's ultimately better and starts to deal with more interesting ideas but even
Batman Returns has some issues.
Now, as Stro points out, we're never getting the actual Snyder vision. Warners borderline fired him before he shot the film because of it. The original intent, and original script he and Terrio wrote, would have shown a world in which Darkseid had unleashed the Anti-Life Equation and Superman was in his thrall. Bringing together the Justice League would have been meant to handle this, not a borderline unnamed lackey. It would have been like Endgame's start in a bleak world turned up to Snyder.
Even the version we got barely shows any of what Snyder shot regarding Steppenwolf, Apokolips, etc. Snyder has shared a frame of Darkseid from his cut. The flashback scene showing the previous arrival of Darkseid that was turned back, the Diana narration was all dubbed in and people who would know have indicated it was more than an exposition dump; likely rather the opening of the film. Which would have then cut forward to the rearrival of the Parademons. So the audience knows what the danger is, the heroes don't. In the actual film, it starts off where Batman is hunting them for some reason, but doesn't know why, then Diana expo dumps it on him. There's also a bunch of Bruce/Diana, Bruce/Barry stuff on the floor that can be seen in the original teaser and one of the trailers.
The rumor is that Snyder again shot three hours, but this time knew he had to cut it down to two. The final cut two hours is more like an hour of Snyder, thirty minutes of reshoots and thirty minutes of stuff totally moved around, chopped up and edited.
But of course the main thing is I want to know if Snyder's cut actually did have Diana failing to save all the kids as part of its setup. Because that's an obvious thing Warners would have deemed unreleasable.
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