Will the Snyder Cut of Justice League Revive the Shared DCEU?

With the DCEU essentially coming to an end, Warner Bros decided to take a step back and create an all original one-and-done or stand-alone franchises. Gone are the days of the crossovers, or so we thought. That’s until the #ReleasetheSnyderCut persisted through the years for the Justice League film. The Snyder Cut was originally just a rumor but apparently does exist just in an unfinished state.

Releasing back in 2017, Zack Snyder’s Justice League was in the middle of production when Snyder had to step away. The Original director of The Avengers, Joss Whedon took over in his absence and changed the vision Snyder originally laid out.

Fast forward three years and the world of social media would not let the studio live it down. Whedon’s “fixes” of Justice League were met with just as many criticisms are as Snyder’s. Between the supposed new direction the studio wanted to take and Snyder stepping away the once screened project was scrapped never to see the light of day.

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Snyder was extremely active on the social media platform Vero sharing most of his vision for the five-film arc. With Q & A’s and watch parties the Man of Steel shared his vision for franchises that seemed to end too early to get off the ground.

After a three year campaign that included stars of the Justice League film like Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, and Jason Momoa the rumored Snyder Cut got plenty of attention.

Now that the Snyder Cut of Justice League went from rumored to most existing and AT&T owned HBO Max needing fanfare to draw in subscribers the rumors became a reality.

Of course, the real question is what it means for the future of these franchises. If Zack Snyder’s Justice League turns out to be universally accepted the way the studio originally wanted, does the original 5-film deal come back into play?

And was this the studio’s plan all along? Sure, everyone can speculate what really happened, but after a very reasonable motive to step away and the need to get the film out the mutual parting of ways might’ve been just a stall.

No matter what the situation is, we can’t wait for the Snyder Cut. Justice League clearly was the middle arc of an arc after Man of Steel and Batman v Superman. Cutting a film’s direction in the middle usually offsets the turning point in the story.

Can the Snyder Cut of Justice League prove that there’s still a place in the DCEU for crossovers and multi-film arcs? Hopefully so because there isn’t a lead from Justice League that needs to be recast. But even more, hopefully, it doesn’t change the Batman film Matt Reeves is already working on. Justice League will drop on HBO Max in 2021.