JUSTICE LEAGUE 2 Would Have Featured Joker Murdering Robin and JUSTICE LEAGUE 3 Would Have Been a Superman Movie
Following the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the director has dropped some new details about these two Justice League sequels that will most likely never see the light of day.
Snyder has been talking a lot about his sequel plans recently, and now he’s saying that Justice League 2 would have featured Joker murdering Robin. He also revealed that Justice League 3 would have been a Superman movie.
When talking about Joker murdering Robin, Snyder said that it would have mostly been set in the post-apocalyptic Knightmare world that was shown in both BvS and Zack Snyder's Justice League. It’s explained that before the team of heroes and villains embark on their journey to stop Superman, they would all sit down together to share a "Last Supper" and during this scene, they would recount stories throughout the years. This would lead to a contentious moment between Joker and Batman. Snyder said:
“So basically in the alternate-future movie, we would have been in this post-Superman, Anti-Life Equation world, where the team knew that the only way to fix the world was to run Flash back and warn Bruce to save Lois. And so in that world, the movie was basically going to be about a ragtag group of Justice League members pulling off a crazy mission to steal a Mother Box from this half-destroyed cathedral in Gotham and get it back to the Batcave in order to use it to power the cosmic treadmill to jump Flash back in time.”
He then went on to say:
“And the night before the big mission, they would have this last supper sort of reckoning, where they would all tell their stories. One of those stories was Joker telling the story of the death of Robin.”
This is a sequence that DC fans have wanted to see in the DCEU, we all knew it would eventually come, but Snyder’s involvement with the franchise went in a very different direction.
When previously talking about Justice League 3, Snyder says Bruce Wayne would have died and Superman and Lois’s son would take up the mantle of Batman. He also said that it would have included the New Gods. Now he’s saying that the third film would very much have been a Superman movie.
The sequels would have seen pregnant Lois Lane help Superman "learn to become Clark Kent again, feeling more human than ever as he and Lois start a family." Snyder went on to say:
"I had just assumed that the final movie was going to be very much a Superman movie. Like the final chapter [Justice League 3] was going to be a large percentage of Superman to just bookend the whole thing. Because if Batman died, it would have very much fallen on Superman to be the de facto leader. By the way, at that point, Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) would have been made queen of the Themyscira and she would be leading the warriors of Themyscira into battle against Darkseid herself. And Arthur (Jason Momoa's Aquaman) would be leading the armies of Atlantians."
"And Superman basically is going to be the head of the Justice League and the Armies of Men. And so Superman would have gone from this kind of berserker Superman to a benevolent Superman."
The filmmaker went on to explain that Justice League 3 would play like Man of Steel 2 because "Superman has the hugest arc of everybody because he goes from like the main villain to like the main hero." He then added:
"And that struck me as just really cool and fun and like a really interesting trajectory for him. Because I think traditionally, Superman is one of those characters that people don't see as changing a lot. You know what I mean? He's kind of a rock that everyone props against and I just thought, how cool would it be to make our Superman the character that goes on the most incredible journey."
Unfortunately for the fans, Snyder has said that Warner Bros. has "no interest and/or appetite" in any Snyder-directed Justice League sequels.
Source: Esquire