Zack Snyder Shares New Details Regarding Robin in His JUSTICE LEAGUE Project

When it was announced that Jared Leto would reprise his role as Joker Zack Snyder’s Justice League: Director’s Cut, fans assumed that his return would involve a flashback of Joker beating Robin to death.

It’s very likely that this is the reason that Joker is being included in the film. While recently talking about his four-part episodic cut of Justice League, Snyder opens up about Robin’s role in the film telling TheFilmJunkee, "There's a Robin line like...there's a Robin Easter egg in Justice League. That, I think you'll have to wait and see. I can't say exactly."

Snyder then went on to suggest he had future plans for Robin, adding "Would there be a plan to have more Robin? In whatever future story? There would be." When talking about a potential future story Snyder explains what that might have been, saying:

"I mean to me, the way you do a Robin story in the Justice League universe with Batman is like, drinking and remembering, and we see what happened. We understand who Robin was to him and we get to experience what was the circumstances for the Joker and Robin coming together."

Robin’s costume made its on-screen appearance in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Snyder previously confirmed that Batman’s sidekick was killed a decade prior to the events of the feature. He also confirmed that Joker was the one to kill him, saying:

“In my mind, it was that Robin had died 10 years earlier, during some run-in with a young Joker. So there was a fun backstory there to play with. I felt like the whole idea was that there had been loss and there had been sacrifice. In a weird way, he had sacrificed everything to be Batman. He doesn’t really have a life outside the cave. I thought that including Robin, a dead Robin, was helping us understand that he’s been on quite a little journey.”

It will be interesting to see if we get to see that backstory in the upcoming Justice League project, which is coming to HBO Max. It’s really the only real reason it would make sense to bring Joker into the picture. But, we’ll see.