Zack Snyder has been giving his fans all the goods lately. In addition to the highly anticipated “Justice League” “Snyder Cut” next year, HBO Max has released the “Ultimate Edition” from director’s critique “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” and there’s a new poster. Go with her.
The latest edition of “Batman v Superman” adds half an hour of extended and deleted scenes to the film, making it more violent than the PG-13 theatrical cut, but also correcting many of the complaints critics and fans had about the narrative. While the new version maintains Snyder’s darker and more polarizing image of Batman and Superman, it is considered a notable improvement over the version that hit theaters in March 2016. When HBO Max was released in May, the stage version was the Only available, but has since been removed and replaced with the “Ultimate Edition”.
Excited that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition is now airing exclusively on @HBOMax. pic.twitter.com/9t6L7UBXIH
– Zack Snyder (@ZackSnyder) July 4, 2020
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In honor of the release, Snyder showed off a new poster featuring Ben Affleck’s Batman during one of the most well-received moments in “BvS”: the Knightmare scene. The apocalyptic vision of a future in which Batman leads an army in a desperate defense against an evil Superman sent fans into a frenzy of theories, particularly because it sparked the arrival of the DC supervillain Darkseid, who will appear in the Snyder Cut. The dusty, armored figure of Batman was the basis for the “Ultimate Edition” poster, which featured the motto: “Of course it is real. It’s on HBO Max.“
“Batman v Superman: Ultimate Edition” is now available to stream. “Justice League: Snyder Cut” will be released on HBO Max in 2021.
15 scenes in the ‘Justice League’ trailers that were not in the finished movie
(Spoilers ahead for “Justice League”) Given that Joss Whedon’s tweaks in “Justice League” took much longer than planned, it’s not really a surprise that some scenes in the marketing didn’t make the final cut. But it’s still fun to take a look at what it should be and compare it to what we actually got. So let’s do it right now. (Note: This post was originally published on November 18, 2017)
This heroic photo of Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), and Cyborg (Ray Fisher) did not make the movie, nor did it make it where they are.
This location appears to be a different version of the cross-shaped platform in the center of the abandoned nuclear reactor Steppenwolf works on in the movie, but it never ends up looking so completely alien in the finished movie. This old version of that space may have been somewhere else, like inside Steppenwolf’s spaceship from which he continues to teleport to Earth, but which we never see in the movie.
There were two trailers that showed Victor Stone in his pre-Cyborg state, but neither was in the movie.
Here is Victor Stone playing soccer, another part prior to Cyborg for him who failed to enter.
There’s a great cornfield scene between Clark (Henry Cavill) and Lois (Amy Adams) in the finished movie, but it’s different from this one, where Clark says he will wear it with his “Batman v Superman” engagement ring as a yes to his proposal – of the trailer or this was part of that scene that he did not manage to enter. The cornfield scene in the finished product, in particular, is one of those where Henry Cavill has his “Mission: The” Impossible Mustache “is covered by CGI, and that’s obviously not happening in this shot here.
Although the opening credits of the “Justice League” featured a montage of people who were terrible without Superman’s moral compass to guide them, this part with the newspaper headline “WORLD WITHOUT HOPE” was not among those shots.
There is a scene where Alfred (Jeremy Irons) is talking to someone off-screen (it is implied that he is Superman) in the Batcave. According to the dialogue, we would assume that Superman visited Alfred to find out where the other friends in the Justice League had gone to fight the final battle: Superman, as you may recall, simply appears in the middle of that fight.
There was a bit in one of the trailers where Cyborg saves a man from being nailed by an explosive tank, but there were no tanks in the finished movie, making it hard to guess where this fits.
Aquaman caught a lot of people with mistakes in the finished movie, but this part where he casts two at the same time didn’t make the cut
This trailer photo shows Cyborg wearing a helmet.
The trailer implies that this shot is of Cyborg flying above the clouds, and while we do see him fly multiple times, we never got this particular part.
The Flash smashing a window while using its super speed was a cool image not found anywhere in the finished movie.
Here we see Flash (Ezra Miller) fighting against an evil soldier. Interestingly, all of the evil guy was removed from the movie: All of Steppenwolf’s forces had wings, but this guy looks more like a normal human, like the soldiers in Bruce Wayne’s nightmare in “Batman v Superman”.
I’m not sure what this photo is, honestly.
This part, in which Wonder Woman takes a couple of bugs out of the Batmobile, is actually in the movie, but the color palette is dramatically different in the finished movie, sporting a bright red hue.
We have a pretty solid amount of cut content to filter around here
(Spoilers ahead for “Justice League”) Given that Joss Whedon’s tweaks in “Justice League” took much longer than planned, it’s not really a surprise that some scenes in the marketing didn’t make the final cut. But it’s still fun to take a look at what it should be and compare it to what we actually got. So let’s do it right now. (Note: This post was originally published on November 18, 2017)
