Zack Snyder's Controversial Batman And Lois Romance Was Good For The DCEU
Zack Snyder's Justice League restored most of Zack Snyder's original vision for his DCEU story and characters, except for the original controversial Lois Lane plot, which would have been one of the most important parts of the Snyderverse story. Even though Justice League was originally taken out of Snyder's hands and reformed into a nearly unrecognizable movie in his absence by Joss Whedon, when the Snyder Cut was given the go-ahead it became clear just how expansive the original DCEU plan was.
The theatrical cut of Justice League removed numerous characters and subplots from backstories to larger sequel seeds and universe building, like the inclusion of DC big bad Darkseid, but the one element Snyder said was removed entirely from an early rewrite after the harsh reactions to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was the romantic subplot between Bruce Wayne and Lois Lane resulting in her carrying his child. Since this element was out of the script before Snyder even started principal photography, it wasn't returned to the story when the restoration of Zack Snyder's Justice League happened throughout 2020 in preparation for its HBO Max release.
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When Snyder originally teased the plot point in 2019, he said «the actual idea, the hard, hard idea, the scary idea, we never filmed because the studio was like, 'That's crazy.' And we were so insecure at the time after [Batman v Superman] came out, we were just like, 'I guess it is crazy. We're f—in' nuts. There's gonna be mass hysteria in the streets if we film this.'» While the full idea is certainly controversial and still spawns social media arguments to this day, taking a broader look at Snyder's
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