Zack Snyder Talks About Superman and Says He Reaches His "Pinnacle" in JUSTICE LEAGUE
It’s been a while since I’ve seen Justice League, but I don’t remember Henry Cavill's Superman getting very much screentime. The film saw Superman coming back from the dead to fight against the other Justice League team members. Then later on he swooped in for the final battle to help them.
What we ended up seeing from Superman in Joss Whedon’s version of the film, is not the vision that Zack Snyder envisioned for the character’s story arc. We will get to see Snyder’s vision of the character in Justice League with his upcoming cut of the film coming to HBO Max.
During a recent interview with Beyond the Trailer, Snyder talks about his vision for Superman and explains why the version we will see in his cut of Justice League is the pinnacle of the character:
"I love the idea of Superman going on a journey with his character. I love the idea of Superman having to reconcile his morality, reconcile his place on Earth, reconcile love affair with Lois and how that affects the way he relates to humanity and all those things as we all do with the normal relationships we all have in our daily lives. So I think that when you see Superman grapple with those things, he becomes a lot more relatable.
"When I see Superman having to figure out what to do, I now can go like, 'Wow, if I was Superman...' Superman is such an abstract character, in his powers and what he's able to do. Anytime you can bring him back down to Earth, he becomes a lot more relatable, and for that he's more interesting. A huge respect for his moral code, and I think his ultimate place as the top of the pyramid of the DC superhero world. In the end he has to achieve that pinnacle."
Snyder goes on to say that the resurrection of Superman was supposed to help the hero reach that pinnacle:
"I always felt like that was what I was doing. Now with the resurrection sort of theme, who is he now? When you touch the eternal, in the sense that coming back from the grave. How are we changed by that?"
Fans will finally get to see Snyder’s true vision of Superman’s story arc play out in Justice League in 2021 and there’s no doubt that DC fans are excited to see it. What do you think about what Snyder had to say about his vision of Superman?