kguillou
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Withholding is not a proper way to describe the situation imo. I HATE that I gotta give them suits their due, but I see it from their pov too. They paid for it and thus own it. They already released their version and releasing a version of a plan that got scrapped is not smart nor good business. This Snydercut folks (myself included as one who would like to see it one day) are not going to merit that box office release. It cost millions of dollars for theaters to get a spot for release, let alone for a two year and counting unreleased type flick. This niche type audience will keep hash-tagging cause they feel like making some kind of difference, but WB will move on to The Batman and others etc.
I see it coming out maybe in 10 years or so, some kind of special addition. But both ends of the fandom are going to have to choose to still follow it and support/hate, but that sounds exhausting. I haven't lost sleep over BvS, but some still do on here, but without that ''failure'' we wouldn't of gotten Reeves and Battinson, which gotta deliver, but I'm much more excited to follow that.
Believe I see it from WB’s side too. WB wants to move on. JL was an ugly situation for all party’s involved, Zack lost his film, the people involved with Zack’s film feel slighted because their hard work went unseen, fans of Zack didnt get their closure, Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck came out laughing stocks from the movie and most of all, the studio lost a lot of money on it. The whole ordeal screwed everyone over and everyone shares a little blame. The studio wants to move forward especially since they’ve got Fishman and Amazon Girl to lean on now.
But my only point is, obviously theres still a fervent fan demand of SOME sort of closure that I think the DC could take advantage of to make some $$$. Fine, dont release the cut, but strike while the iron is hot and provide an alternative. There are other options available to milk Zack’s fanbase for cash. Imagine the sales on an animated feature. It’d easily top any other feature they’ve done, you could get Jay Oliva to direct and oversee it, you could go nuts with it creatively and not worry about ruining the brand and people will get some sort of closure. Theres money being left on the table as this hashtag only seems to swelling up. Unless WB wants to start slapping Zack with cease and desists, hes gonna keep releasing stuff and people will only want it more.