Netflix is Avoiding WB's Biggest Snyderverse Mistake With Rebel Moon
Netflix is smartly avoiding WB's biggest Zack Snyder DCEU mistake with Rebel Moon. After years of troubled productions, divisive reviews, and uncertain box office returns at Warner Bros., Zack Snyder is seeing a totally different reality with his new partner, Netflix.
Justice League and the Snyder Cut are the most well-known stories of Snyder's fraught time working with Warner Bros., but many of his films were marred by similar behind-the-scenes complications and editing room battles. Netflix has taken a different approach with Snyder, giving him far more creative freedom to tell his stories.
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Snyder's relationship with Netflix isn't only creating better working conditions for Snyder and his cast and crew, but it's also resulting in more creative trust as Snyder launches more projects for the streaming giant, such as Rebel Moon. With the decision made to shoot two movies back to back, Netflix is avoiding a major mistake Warner Bros. made with Snyder.
Justice League was originally announced as a two-part movie and largely speculated they'd shoot back-to-back; however, the multi-part story was dropped in early Justice League rewrites after the blowback from Batman v Superman. At some point, the plan Snyder wrote out with Jim Lee and Geoff Johns had grown to become a Justice League trilogy, and Snyder has said he'd want to shoot Justice League part 2 & 3 back-to-back if he were to hypothetically have the chance to return for his story.
If Warner Bros had simply stuck to the original plan, Snyder's version of Justice League would have been released in November 2017, and Justice League 2 would have been released 18 months later in June 2019, and
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