

So when she learned "Zack Snyder's Justice League" would debut on HBO Max, she initially thought her scenes would look "somewhat similar." Win didn't return for any reshoots of the film when Whedon took over the film. Once he sees the Motherbox out of his grasp, he cries out, "No!" Warner Bros. In the 2021 cut, Steppenwolf is overwhelmed by the might of the Amazons. In the 2017 film (left), Steppenwolf is excited by the thrill of the chase, challenging the Amazon queen to try and outrun him.

She dies heroically while serving Queen Hippolyta to protect one of three Motherboxes from the film's villain, Steppenwolf. Win plays one of the Amazon warriors, Euboea, seen briefly early on in the films. In May, while speaking with Samantha Win about her role in Snyder's "Army of the Dead," Insider asked the actress about the differences in the two films. The 2017 Joss Whedon version contains more than a dozen cringeworthy moments directed at Wonder Woman, Lois Lane, the Amazons, and more you can see here.Īll of these moments are removed from the "Snyder Cut," instead highlighting women's strength in each scene. If you watch the two cuts side-by-side, one of the biggest changes is how the 2021 film, often referred to as the "Snyder Cut," portrays its female characters on screen. In 2021, Snyder's four-hour vision of the film was finally released on HBO Max to acclaim from both critics and audiences for its stark differences. "Avengers" director Joss Whedon stepped in rewriting and heavily reshooting the film, which was maligned by critics and fans. Since its release, fans rallied for what, at the time, seemed like a mythical cut of the film from the original director, Zack Snyder, who stepped down from the film alongside producing partner and wife Deborah Snyder after the death of their daughter. This week marked the four-year anniversary of " Justice League's" theatrical debut. Win told Insider it was "a night and day difference" in how she felt about women in the film.

Samantha Win wasn't expecting her scenes to feel different since she wasn't involved in reshoots. "Zack Snyder's Justice League" debuted earlier this year on HBO Max. After all, the Donner cut of Superman II didn’t see the light of day until 26 years after the Richard Lester theatrical release.Samantha Win in a scene from "Zack Snyder's Justice League," which is not in the original 2017 theatrical cut. and someone sympathetic to Snyder who’s willing to put up the money to see his vision of Justice League on home video release. Who knows, though, maybe someday in the future, the mist surrounding Snyder’s original cut of Justice League will clear and we’ll get a look at what the film might have been? I get that the chances of this are minimal, and probably reliant on a clear-out of executives at Warner Bros. That scene re-used this set, though at present, we don’t have a very clear picture of what the original sequence was. In the Joss Whedon cut, we see him tangling with a Parademon.

While a photograph of the Dark Knight standing on a rooftop doesn’t easily indicate where in the film this might be, fans seem to think it was taken from Snyder’s original scene introducing the character in Justice League.
