Zack Snyder recently unveiled his concept for the epic culmination of the DCEU, drawing comparisons to the finale of the MCU’s Infinity Saga.
Highlights
- Superman's storyline in Zack Snyder's Justice League sequel was set to end in a battle against Darkseid to restore hope.
- Darkseid lays waste to Earth in Snyder's vision, creating a bleak future where Superman battles to save humanity.
- Snyder's planned sequels would have wrapped up Superman's story arc, similar to the epic conclusion in Marvel's Infinity War saga.
Justice League director Zack Snyder has opened up about how Superman’s story would have concluded in his final film for DCEU. Fans were left longing to witness Henry Cavill's Man of Steel reclaim his role as Earth's guardian post the events of Zack Snyder's Justice League. The unanswered question of how this iconic character would have restored hope and made a difference continues to captivate everyone's imagination.
At the end of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, fans get to see that Darkseid and his forces have laid waste to Earth. But there’s still hope because a resistance group consisting of some superheroes and villains is trying to make things right. However, there’s no Superman and at the end of this nightmare, fans get to know why Clark Kent is not on their side. The ending promised that Superman would have to crawl his way back to reality and fight Darkseid. But that couldn’t happen. Now, in a recent interview, Snyder has finally broken his silence on how Superman would return to humanity in his planned sequels.
Speaking in an interview with GQ, Snyder noted that he had plans regarding what could have happened in the future Justice League movies. In the conversation, the filmmaker also noted that fans would have gotten a chance to see the battle between Superman and his arch-nemesis, Darkseid. Snyder said, “He (Superman) was going to have to succumb to the Anti-life, be destroyed, turn the clock back, and then get his chance for this battle against Darkseid that would have finished his trilogy of becoming this guardian, and sort of, return him to his humanity.”
In Snyder's envisioned clash between Darkseid and the Justice League, Superman was slated to fall into Darkseid's might, plunging the world into the bleak Knightmare future foreseen by Bruce Wayne. However, amidst the despair, Superman would ultimately discover a means to reverse the course of fate, triumphing over Darkseid and eradicating the looming apocalypse. Although it would have been amazing to see two giant forces of nature going against each other, the conclusion would have looked similar to the ending of Marvel’s Infinity War saga. In Infinity War, the Avengers fight Thanos and his forces so that the Mad Titan never gets hold of all the Infinity Stones. However, the superheroes lost and Thanos killed half of Earth’s population with a simple snap of his fingers. Eventually, the superheroes would develop a technique to bring back the fallen heroes and fight the ultimate battle in Avengers: Endgame.
Even though the ending of Endgame turned out to be really emotional, it served as a perfect ending to the Infinity War saga. But that doesn’t mean the same formula would also have worked for Snyderverse. Fans would have drawn comparisons to both conclusions and there would have been endless debates on which production giant did it better. Regardless, fans of Snyder's work eagerly anticipated the filmmaker's long-awaited conclusion to his series of feature films. It’s highly unlikely that James Gunn would contact Snyder to direct any movie in the upcoming slate of movies in the DC Universe, but his fandom would surely want to see more superhero stuff from the filmmaker. Currently, Snyder is busy promoting his latest movie Rebel Moon – Part Two: Scargiver, which has opened to negative reviews from critics as well as audiences.
Zack Snyder’s Justice League is available for streaming on HBO Max.
Source: GQ
