It seems to have been a bit of a trolling move on either Zack, Jared or HBO Max’s part to get people talking about the movie even more than they would have been. Spoiler: Joker doesn’t actually say it in the finished movie. (This is not the first time an online running joke about a character has ended up becoming part of a big-screen incarnation – back in prehistoric 2006, X-Men: The Last Stand featured Juggernaut, played by Vinnie Jones, uttering the line, “I’m the Juggernaut, bitch”, a reference to an early YouTube video.) But, when the final trailers for Zack Snyder’s Justice League dropped, there it was. When the Joaquin Phoenix Joker was being filmed, there was a petition to get him to say the line. One thing that sent the internet into a tizzy when it was shown in the trailer was the Joker’s use of the phrase, “We live in a society.” It’s something of an in-joke having shown up in memes related to the character for a few years – first in world-weary expressions of dissatisfaction at the unfairness of life, and subsequently in memes taking the piss out of the type of people who post world-weary expressions of dissatisfaction at the unfairness of life. He told the New York Times: “I added it because this was going to be the last movie I make for the DCU, and to have this entire cinematic universe without Batman and Joker meeting up just felt weird… The ask was for my version of the movie.” Knowing his cinematic universe wouldn’t be continuing, Zack opted to get the Joker into the reshoots because he felt having Batman and the Joker not cross paths would be ridiculous. But I will say that it was always my intention to bring Joker into that world.” A briefly-seen clue in Zack’s earlier Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016) suggested the Joker not only existed in the world of the films, but had murdered Robin – Robin’s armour was seen, spray-painted with ‘Ha Ha, Joke’s On You, Batman’. Jared Leto’s Joker wasn’t in the originally released movie, but when the decision was made to complete Zack’s cut of the film, the director opted to bring him in, telling Vanity Fair: “The Joker is really the only thing that I thought of in retrospect. Zack claims to have only shot “four or five minutes” of new footage for this version of the film, but required most of the big names in the cast to do so, plus the Thirty Seconds To Mars frontman. Zack was eventually given the opportunity and funding to complete his vision.Īnd now here it is, with fewer one-liners, more swearing, redesigned villains, a new structure, a darker colour palette, a vastly extended running time, a different aspect ratio and a few new scenes, which is where our boy Jared Leto comes in. to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut, which gained traction over the years, aided by the director’s own enthusiasm, allegations about Joss’ behavior, and the general feeling that the whole DC Extended Universe had gone a bit wrong. Zack left the production of Justice League in 2017 following a family tragedy, with extensive reshooting by Joss Whedon resulting in something of a Frankenstein movie, a stitched-together thing that didn’t really please anyone.ĭissatisfied fans began campaigning Warner Bros. Justice League, or to give it its new title, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, has taken an odd journey into the world.
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