By: Keaton Marcus

#ReleaseTheSnyderCut. That’s what the many DCEU fans, and even director Zack Snyder himself wanted for this world, to release his vision of Justice League. Today, during a Man of Steel watch party and live-stream, Snyder revealed a poster for The Snyder Cut, confirming that it was arriving exclusively on HBO Max sometime in 2021. Henry Cavill, and Debbie Snyder (his wife) also joined the stream later on. Yep folks, it’s really happening, we are getting a potentially four-hour movie coming straight to us! And we won’t even have to go to the theater. This news just became my other anticipation for 2021. The other one was a new president. Yuk yuk yuk.

Alongside the announcement, Snyder said “I want to thank HBO Max and Warner Brothers for this brave gesture of supporting artists and allowing their true visions to be realized. Also a special thank you to all of those involved in the SnyderCut movement for making this a reality.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, it is still unclear whether this highly-anticipated release will be a full director’s cut, similar to the Batman v Superman ultimate edition, or if it would be a series. They wrote that the Snyders are “reassembling much of their original post production crew to score, cut, and add new visual effects, and, yes, maybe bring back many of the actors to record additional dialogue.”

Will it actually be four hours long? We all hope it will be as long as possible, but we don’t yet know an exact running time, altered footage or any changes Snyder made to 2017’s Justice League, which he stepped down from directing during production due to a horrible family tragedy. Joss Whedon was left for the rest of the job, who is Snyder’s assistant. Sadly, the film was met with disappointingly mediocre critical reception, scoring a Rotten 40% on the Tomatometer. Despite the negative reviews, however, almost immediately after the film’s release, fans were begging to watch Snyder’s vision of the movie. Unfortunately, in 2018, we received word that WB had no plans to release it.

After, we got some more bad news, with Henry Cavill potentially leaving the iconic role of Superman. Though despite all the chaos, fans continued to outcry for The Snyder Cut. In November 2019, Aquaman star Jason Momoa claimed to have already seen the Snyder Cut, but nobody was really expecting it to be released back then, even with the cast’s endorsements. Before 2019 ended, Snyder even confirmed that the cut existed, and posted photos of Cavill’s Superman in a black suit that didn’t appear in the original film.

I’ve always been a fan of the DC franchise in general, and what I saw in 2017’s Justice League truly disappointed me, and the fact that Snyder couldn’t direct the entire movie wasn’t satisfying. Me, among other, countless fans, have been begging for this for a while now, and I cannot wait to put it on my TV! And here we are today, not expecting Snyder to release it, only to announce it during a livestream watch-a-along. Hey, maybe it was Jason Momoa’s video pleading WB to release it the other day…