Introduction
Welcome to ForSnyderCut. Your site for Snyder film appreciation and bringing to light the Snyder Cut of Justice League. Anyone with an open heart and mind is welcome, because sharing art appreciation always gives and never takes.
Art comes out of vision and Zack Snyder’s vision has given so much to us. We hope to share and illuminate some of that vision, including but not limited to: luscious visuals, distinct irony, symbolic abstraction, technical execution, storytelling, and subtext. Every director must have a vision Zack Snyder has earned his distinction as visionary.
Especially in relation to comic books, graphic novels, superheroes, and sequential art.
Since 2004, Zack has been immersed in the language of comics. No other director has been so invested in comics on such a grand scale. Bringing to life “unfilmable” works, confronting rich philosophical, existential, and cultural questions, treating the material with gravity, seriousness, intensity, and passion, yet being an absolute joy to work with by all accounts. 300, Watchmen, Man of Steel, and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice all prepared him for Justice League. BvS was cast and produced with Justice League in mind.
Zack completed principal photography on Chris Terrio’s screenplay and screened “a rough cut of Justice League for fellow filmmakers and friends” but stepped back from the film after a family tragedy. During a London junket, Debbie Snyder shared,
“For us this whole thing is so bittersweet because we have been working on this franchise for the past eight years, when we started developing the script for Man of Steel, and then we moved on to BVS, and also Zack developed the story for Wonder Woman, which was leading up to the point of Justice League, where these characters were finally going to come together. Not being able to complete his vision was extremely difficult. So that makes it hard.”
Joss Whedon agreed to complete the film: from writing rewrites to directing reshoots, to overseeing post-production and the final edit. Zack, by his own account, was hands-off thereafter. To Wired, he said it would “unfair in a lot of ways” to get involved again after being off the movie for so long. “I’ve kind of just let them do their thing.” After the film’s release, “I will be honest, I have not seen the film since I stepped away. You know I love these characters. I only wish I could have finished it for you and the others who love MOS and BvS.”
In his absence, Justice League departed from Zack Snyder’s vision.
ForSnyderCut’s mission is to share what we love about the vision we’ve seen and bring to light the vision on Justice League that we didn’t see.
The Snyder Cut would be driven by the consistency and integrity of principal photography under the same director, cinematographer, editor, and actors working from the same pre-approved script at the peak of their preparation.
Our goal is to see the time, care, deliberation, preparation, artistry, and intentions that went into principal photography, principal performances, polished production, and the prior screenplay composed out of a place of passion, joy, excitement, and cooperation; compared to the hurried and desperate efforts rushed out under duress.
However well-intentioned the latter, we believe the talent and artistry of the filmmakers, actors, visual effects artists, etc. will be better represented in the first case.
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