To the surprise of no one, Zack Snyder’s Justice League dominated the conversation this past weekend. However, despite the large online presence and popularity of the film, WarnerMedia CEO Ann Sarnoff confirms that there are no plans to continue with the SnyderVerse after Zack Snyder’s Justice League.
This is not surprising as the only reason the film was released in the first place was because of fan campaigns and critical reactions to that film prompted WB to let Snyder restore his original version of the 2017 film after he departed the project during post-production.
WarnerMedia CEO Ann Sarnoff expressed how happy WB was that Snyder could complete his original vision for the film. Ultimately, Zack Snyder’s Justice League marks the completion of the trilogy that Snyder started. Sarnoff says that the studio is now looking to the future and what’s in store for the various films and television series in the works.
I appreciate that they love Zack’s work and we are very thankful for his many contributions to DC. We’re just so happy that he could bring his cut of the “Justice League” to life because that wasn’t in the plan until about a year ago. With that comes the completion of his trilogy. We’re very happy we’ve done this, but we’re very excited about the plans we have for all the multi-dimensional DC characters that are being developed right now.
Along with that, Sarnoff spoke to Variety regarding the toxic fandom that surrounded the Snyder Cut stating
“We’re not tolerating any of that,”
“That behavior is reprehensible no matter what franchise you’re talking about or what business you’re talking about. It’s completely unacceptable. I’m very disappointed in the fans that have chosen to go to that negative place with regard to DC, with regard to some of our executives. It’s just disappointing because we want this to be a safe place to be. We want DC to be a fandom that feels safe and inclusive. We want people to be able to speak up for the things they love, but we don’t want it to be a culture of cancelling things that any small faction isn’t happy with. We are not about that. We are about positivity and celebration.”
In addition, Sarnoff shot down another fan-led campaign for a critically panned DC film:
“We won’t be developing David Ayer’s cut,”
