Vakanai wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:46 am
Chrispy_G wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 7:20 pm
Vakanai wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:33 am
...how? How can you be so sure that Synder's vision for the DCEU is coming back, when everyone in a position at WB to know say no?
AT&T purchased WB and formed Warner Media. No matter what the studio level WB execs say...if the upper echelon Warner Media execs tell them to do something like say....release the Snyder Cut to pump up HBOMax....they HAVE to whether they all agree or not.
The upper execs of AT&T, the company that PURCHASED Time Warner, are ultimately the big daddy bosses. Yes, plenty of WB Studio execs got to keep their jobs and relative positions of authority....but just like the Snyder Cut was a Time Warner/AT&T/HBOMax decision and not a "WB Execs" decision....the same would be true for any continuation.
Of COURSE any home-grown internal WB execs would be against it, they don't want to look like they were wrong for changing the film in the first place(They were) and they don't like the idea of the Snyder Cut being so successful or being "forced" to continue it instead of going into their more "radical" reinterpretation of the DC Universe.
A filmmaker like Ava Duvernay at the helm of a New Gods movie is exactly the kind of project that is antithetical to what Snyder was clearly forging with his vision of Justice League and the future Snyderverse.
If they were pushing forward with a project like New Gods that would glaringly contradict the portrayal of Darkseid Snyder created...then that would be a bad thing for Snyder's continuing vision. The fact that New Gods got the axe is an early sign of re-prioritizing from the UPPER corporate level.
Meaning...LIKELY....execs and board members have seen the numbers and response to the Snyder Cut, and are bringing in the WB folks and saying "THIS is the direction we are going to keep going in"
On top of the fact that you have a heavy hitter like Dwayne Johnson wanting to portray Black Adam and face off with Cavill's Superman and Snyder's incarnation of the Justice League.
But what I'm saying is, wouldn't the WB execs be in a position to know - as in wouldn't their higher ups at AT&T informed them to not keep saying this is just a one time deal? But the WB guys are still saying every chance they get that it is a one time deal. AT&T is in charge, but they're also tightly in charge - they wouldn't let the WB guys keep saying that if it wasn't true. Also, New Gods isn't the only movie to get the axe so we don't know what their reasoning for it is. And none of the old slate of intended Snyderverse films have come out of cancellation.
We don't know what AT&T intends to do, or why New Gods was cancelled. There's no sign or evidence that they want to bring back Snyder's vision beyond the JL Cut. Is there anything more substantial?
I suppose I'll just have to say "wait and see". A contradictory Darkseid/New Gods film being GREENLIT would be a bad thing for the future continuation of the Snyderverse. It being cancelled might not necessarily be confirmation of continuing, but it is not as bad as if it went forward and they were basically saying "This New Gods will have our official Darkseid". Yes, The Trench was the other movie canned, that was the Aquaman spin-off meant to be a bit more of a horror film. It sounded quite off-brand to do a project like that as a DC movie and not just as an original concept horror film. I feel like that one was always a long shot to happen anyway, something green-lit purely off of the hype of Aquaman hitting $1 Billion, and not a concept that was actually thoroughly thought through.
That interview with Sarnoff was conducted BEFORE the Snyder Cut actually dropped, you can tell from the phrasing of how she is saying things...it was clearly conducted prior to the Snyder Cut actually dropping.
YES, the WB specific execs are, more or less, not in favor of continuing the Snyderverse, they have their own wild direction they want to go in. They don't want more Cavill Superman, they want Abrams Superman. They don't want Snyder's Justice League 2 and 3, Affleck's HBOMax Batman project.
So for THEM, they saw this as a one time thing, and are actively trying to speak it into existence to be such, and maybe it was conceived that way.
But if the higher ups at Warner Media see the performance of the Snyder Cut, how apparently(because I don't follow Twitter Garbage) #RestoreTheSnyderVerse had more retweets in 24 hours than #AvengersEndgame did or whatever....they see the ratings, they see the web traffic, the YouTube Hits, the positive reception....it doesn't take much more than a meeting and a few phone calls.
I don't see them consistently coming out SINCE the release and saying it is a one-off, just the same news sites and articles regurgitating the same quotes from an interview clearly conducted before it released. That was WB trying to get ahead of it and pour water on the fire of the Snyder Cut. The support for that version can't be doused though.
Nobody knows exactly what will happen, but none of this is final. The only thing we know is we got A VERSION of Darkseid in the Snyder Cut, and then a film with what would have been a conflicting version got canceled almost right after. That certainly isn't bad news for the SndyerVerse even if it isn't overtly good news. We know that Dwayne Johnson and Henry Cavill have the same agent, Johnson is a Producer and not just the star of Black Adam, and he wants to fight Cavill's Superman. He wants to take on Snyder's incarnation of the Justice League.
So...between Ayer, the cast, Johnson, the fans, and clear overall online support....the notion of continuing the SnyderVerse has a lot of hype, momentum, and many allies. The same kind of movement that got Warner Media to step in and mandate the completion of the Snyder Cut in the first place. All the while people kept saying the Snyder Cut "doesn't exist, can't exist, won't ever happen".....so we may easily see history repeat itself.
We will see. To pretend like all of the final decisions have been made and nothing is capable of being altered is pretty ridiculous.
"What makes you so sure?"
"Faith Alfred, faith."
"I'm saying a prayer, George. A prayer for the whole world."
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