A fan-organised Q&A live stream event will be taking place on YouTube on July 25th-26th, with special guests including Ray Porter, Ray Fisher, and the director of ZSJL himself, Zack Snyder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRF0ARbF3Cw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UrWo29rY98
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmbXef0QoqdIfcXUMj_DD7A
Not much is known about what else this event has to offer, but I'll be very keen to see what sort of surprises Snyder and co have in store.
There is A LOT to take in, but here are these interviews.
Ray Porter aka Darkseid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl4C4-bMESk
Jay Oliva:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-QUwCfzx2c
Ray Fisher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMIZmmYkH8&t
Zack Snyder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Kg6Cxwn18
Half way through the Snyder interview, he unleashed the Black Suit Superman clip, which is the deleted scene of him meeting Alfred. As he explained, the studio didn't feel comfortable in making Kal-El wear the black suit, so Snyder was forced to compromise. Which didn't even make the final theatrical cut. Thankfully, he's going deeper to restore the vision that he had intended all along.
I reckon the best interview out of the lot is Ray Fisher. Such a honest, down to earth guy. The Joss Whedon subject gets mentioned and talked about it deeply, but he does with professionalism and grace. Going by what Fisher says, it seems Whedon is facing the music. The sudden removal from his panel at Comic Con@Home is probably the start.
I liked to hear that Fisher is an avid DC fan growing up, including watching BR every Christmas. 8)
Cinematographer Fabian Wagner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MWqHkgNn8M
Quote from: The Laughing Fish on Sun, 26 Jul 2020, 06:15I reckon the best interview out of the lot is Ray Fisher. Such a honest, down to earth guy. The Joss Whedon subject gets mentioned and talked about it deeply, but he does with professionalism and grace. Going by what Fisher says, it seems Whedon is facing the music. The sudden removal from his panel at Comic Con@Home is probably the start.
I liked to hear that Fisher is an avid DC fan growing up, including watching BR every Christmas. 8)
It's almost an hour and a half long. When do the Whedon comments come up?
Quote from: thecolorsblend on Sun, 26 Jul 2020, 22:20
Quote from: The Laughing Fish on Sun, 26 Jul 2020, 06:15I reckon the best interview out of the lot is Ray Fisher. Such a honest, down to earth guy. The Joss Whedon subject gets mentioned and talked about it deeply, but he does with professionalism and grace. Going by what Fisher says, it seems Whedon is facing the music. The sudden removal from his panel at Comic Con@Home is probably the start.
I liked to hear that Fisher is an avid DC fan growing up, including watching BR every Christmas. 8)
It's almost an hour and a half long. When do the Whedon comments come up?
Check out the 26:00 minute mark.
Here are a couple of more videos.
Deborah Snyder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX2_l4jaUE8
Sean O'Connell, a CinemaBlend journalist who is writing a book about the whole #ReleaseTheSnyderCut saga.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st4J7-ziggk
I believe Mrs Snyder raises a good point about streaming platforms give storytellers the time and freedom to flesh out their work, away from the studio pressures of ticket sales and compromising the running time to accomodate that and so forth. Character development for a big ensemble piece such as Justice League would be easier to achieve than cramming everything in two and a half hours or less. Be careful and skip 36:51-37:33 because she does give away ***minor spoiler*** not yet covered in the last few years.
O'Connell's book will be very enlightening to read. In the video, he reads a deleted chapter from his book.
Quote from: The Laughing Fish on Sun, 26 Jul 2020, 06:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Kg6Cxwn18
Okay, so yeah. The Snyder interview gets pretty gd spicy about 35 minutes in.
For starters, I
WAY underestimated Snyder's feelings about Whedon. But Snyder is so easygoing that for him to be as vocal as he got, that ain't coming from nowhere, fam. Methinks he knows a ton of stuff that isn't public and that question about using Whedon footage poked the bear a little bit.
Another interesting tidbit is business about Junkie XL's score. Snyder says about 37 minutes in that he heard some of it back in the old days and some stuff was complete enough to begin working with. But he emphasizes that there's more still to come. So it sounds like Junkie completed some of the score but had all of it written.
This was new information for me, at least. The broad consensus before now was that Junkie had written everything that he needed but it was up for grabs if anything was recorded or worked on in any way prior to Snyder's exit.
Still, you'd think that scoring an episodic release could differ significantly from scoring a feature film. Will new music be necessary? Who even knows anymore?
All I know for sure is that ZSJL is the first comic book movie to come along in a few years that I'm genuinely excited about.
And thanks for posting all this stuff here. I
really didn't want to have go hunting for it on YouTube.
You're very welcome. Looking back, I kinda regret not putting a timestamp on key topics per each video, but that would've taken me forever to do. :-[
The other big detail that caught my attention is Snyder confessed he is trying to work out the copyright issues that might prevent him from calling his cut "Zack Snyder's Justice League". I reckon under the circumstances of how we got here, he should be allowed to name his film however he wants, copyright be damned. But I don't make the rules.
From Variety:
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Comic-Con@Home didn't even generate the buzziest fan event of the weekend. On Saturday, director Zack Snyder appeared on the independent fan convention JusticeCon to debut a short clip from his upcoming "Snyder Cut" of "Justice League" that revealed Superman's black suit. Notably, the panel — which logged over 260,000 views in less than 48 hours — was live, allowing Snyder to spend nearly an hour interacting with the very fans who brought about the Snyder Cut in the first place.
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/comic-con-at-home-analysis-walking-dead-new-mutants-1234717509/
Admittedly, CC was undermined by a lack of studio presence thanks to the pandemic. But it's a great effort by Justice Con nonetheless.
Quote from: The Laughing Fish on Wed, 29 Jul 2020, 13:05
From Variety:
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Comic-Con@Home didn't even generate the buzziest fan event of the weekend. On Saturday, director Zack Snyder appeared on the independent fan convention JusticeCon to debut a short clip from his upcoming "Snyder Cut" of "Justice League" that revealed Superman's black suit. Notably, the panel — which logged over 260,000 views in less than 48 hours — was live, allowing Snyder to spend nearly an hour interacting with the very fans who brought about the Snyder Cut in the first place.
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/comic-con-at-home-analysis-walking-dead-new-mutants-1234717509/
Admittedly, CC was undermined by a lack of studio presence thanks to the pandemic. But it's a great effort by Justice Con nonetheless.
Yeah I was wondering when that would get brought up. SDCC got served, no two ways about it. Making matters worse, they got upstaged by a
fan con. Worst of all, it was a pro-Snyderverse con. That was all anybody was talking about over the weekend.
SDCC has been Hollywood's dumping ground for everything in recent years, no matter how unrelated to comics that stuff might be. But this weekend, they discovered there's no substitute for genuine passion and enthusiasm.
Any doubts I ever had about ZSJL's commercial viability just went out the window. The other Hollywood studios would do well to learn some lessons here.
The best comparison over the weekend was the snoozefest Star Trek panel compared to Snyder's extended interview. Even Stevie Wonder can see a difference in the respective audience's passion and enthusiasm.
Lessons, Hollywood. Learn them!
This is surprising, Justice Con is returning in 2021.
https://vero.co/zacksnyder/J9g-bTc44cL1tm2hCf4FW92C
This year's edition of Justice Con happened over the weekend. Saturday is devoted to ZSJL, and Sunday is devoted to Army of the Dead. Here below are the interviews discussing ZSJL.
Ray Porter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5C7vC44Og0
Ray Fisher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDElEBqIPTg
Joe Manganiello:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApSdWs98loA
Harry Lennix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y2SOWANDEY
Patrick Tatopolous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0QRKSu-79g
Zack Snyder and Chris Terrio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpLQaWzes00
Jay Oliva:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXbe4SDkZv4
I haven't had the chance to watch any of the interviews thus far, with the exception of some portions of the Snyder and Terrio video, but some of the biggest revelations I've heard include:
- Wayne T. Carr was confirmed as the actor who played John Stewart/Green Lantern, before Warner Butchers forced Zack to remove him from ZSJL.
- The cancelled Deathstroke project was going to explore Slade Wilson's backstory involving his family (including his son who is otherwise known as Jericho in Teen Titans), and Talia al Ghul, seeing as Slade would've had some ties with the League of Assassins.
- The shot of Batman standing on top of the Batmobile tank during the Silas Stone closing narration had another DKR egg - the criminals who were captured underneath were the Mutants.
- If Terrio had the choose the title of BvS, some of the titles he brought up were Justice League: Foundations or Justice League Rising.
Terrio's alternate titles are just not good. The follow-up to MOS needed to reference Batman and Superman in some way. His title suggestions... idk, just not feeling them. BVSDOJ is a better, more descriptive and more accurate title than his ideas. I rly don't understand why people have a problem with BVS as a title. It sums up perfectly what the movie is all about.
If summing up what the movie is all about is the problem, well, go watch the MCU or something.
Calling the movie Batman and Superman would not just boring but false advertising because the majority of the story is adversarial. BvS is not just more descriptive, it automatically conjures an exciting image in the human brain, eliciting debate as to what the outcome would be. The same is true of any gladiator contest, be it Alien v Predator or more recently, Godzilla v Kong. The Dawn of Justice subtitle doesn't just take care of the last section of the movie but also leads into the sequel. I don't see how it could be bettered.
Quote from: The Laughing Fish on Sun, 18 Apr 2021, 04:41
Wayne T. Carr was confirmed as the actor who played John Stewart/Green Lantern, before Warner Butchers forced Zack to remove him from ZSJL.
According to Snyder, he met Carr through Fisher, who is a good friend of his. Carr also verified this during an interview with the LightCast YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/1nvGjEddzNk?t=5003
I wouldn't be surprised if forcing GL's removal from ZSJL was another way for Warner Butchers to punish Fisher further for speaking out, as well as screwing Zack over. Multiverse, my ass.