Zack Snyder Shares His Epic JUSTICE LEAGUE Sequel Plans
Zack Snyder has some incredibly epic plans for the Justice League sequel that we’ll never see. It would have definitely been one of the biggest and most ambitious DC movies ever. Snyder recently shared some details on his sequel plans in an interview with the New York Times.
The film would have seen Superman succumb to Darkseid's anti-life equation, leading to Batman’s Knightmare timeline first seen his vision of the future. The story would have also seen the Flash running back in time to prevent it from happening. Here’s Snyder’s description:
"It’s the fall of Earth, when Superman succumbs to anti-life, and then sending Flash back in time to change one element so that doesn’t happen. And then the big battle where we beat him. When [the villain] Darkseid comes to Earth, in the movie that you’ll never see, the armies of Earth all unite again, as they did before. This time there would be aircraft carriers and Special Forces guys, all the armies of the world would come together, as well as [Aquaman’s fellow] Atlanteans rising out of the ocean and the Themyscirans [Wonder Woman’s compatriots] coming off their island. That was our big finale. But it’s a long drum roll and guitar solo to get there."
This is in line with what production designer Patrick Tatopoulos previously described saying:
"The Anti-life Equation, that moment is where you get to the next level. The next world is a much bigger world. What Zack had done, and I can’t stop describing it, but in his office at Warners, he had these gigantic boards on the wall where he's starting to draft the three movies like this. And I thought that was unbelievable. I went and visited that thing, and it was basically, yes, it was laying it down … the hints of what's coming next. It's like the Knightmare. Batman’s Knightmare. All those things that you plant seeds with a much bigger plan. So this was drafted. … We are defining what the future is by simply planting the seeds of something that can grow."
This sounds like it would have been quite the sight to see. That’s what all of these DC films Snyder was making was going to lead up to, and it’s a disappointment to a lot of fans that we are never going to see it. Visualizing Snyder’s description of what the sequel would have entailed in my head is pretty mind-blowing, damn… that would have been a fun film to see.