The DCEU Has A Perfect Opportunity To Leave The Snyderverse Behind
The DCEU has now been afforded the perfect chance to leave the ideas of the Snyderverse behind, and doing so would actually be the franchise's best way forward. The DCEU didn't get off to the strongest of starts: its earliest films remain among its most divisive, and production issues and behind-the-scenes controversy have plagued the DCEU. One of the most major and well-publicized issues came after the release of 2017's Justice League, whose failure was attributed to Zack Snyder's departure during production.
After much campaigning, Warner Bros. finally released Zack Snyder's original cut of the movie in 2021, simply titled Zack Snyder's Justice League. The highly-anticipated 4-hour director's cut included a number of aspects that outline Snyder's original vision not just for the movie itself but for the future of the DCEU, and it received a far better critical appraisal than the theatrical cut. Snyder's darker, grittier vision for the DCEU is one that promised an exploration of Justice League's teased Knightmare storyline, a dark future in which Superman turns evil (heavily inspired by the «Injustice» storyline of the comics).
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As Zack Snyder's Justice League is not considered DCEU canon, the franchise is free to go in a very different direction than Snyder had originally planned. This is actually a much better option — Snyder's Knightmare was intriguing, but there's actually a very good narrative reason that the storyline can't go ahead. What's more, pursuing the dark future that Snyder had planned would only feed into some of the biggest criticisms of the DCEU, and therefore being able to organically move on from the Knightmare is one of the franchise's biggest
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