Zack Synder to receive honor at HCA; Scott Menzel comments on his ‘resilience to overcome any obstacle’

While Zack Snyder can finally breathe a sigh of relief with the recent highly-awaited release of Justice League Snyder Cut, which DCEU (DC Extended Universe) fans unanimously agree was much better than Joss Whedon's 2017 box-office disaster, fans are now demanding #RestoreTheSnyderVerse.

For fans of the DC Extended Universe, Thursday of last week marked a special occasion. After more than three years of waiting, director Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League finally arrived on HBO Max.

Fans of director Zack Snyder have been campaigning all weekend for Warner Bros. to “Restore the SnyderVerse” and bring back the filmmaker to helm the upcoming DC Comics movies.

Last week and ever since, DC fans can't stop talking about Zack Snyder's Justice League, which released on March 18. While critics gave mixed reviews, it was unanimously agreed along with fans that Zack Snyder's ambitious four-hour long cut was a better version of Joss Whedon's 2017 debacle.

As fandom prepares for the March 18 unveiling on HBO Max of Zack Snyder's Justice League, Snyder's first comic-book movie star, Gerard Butler, looks back fondly on his breakout role in 2007's 300. "I met him for coffee in the valley," recalls Butler, now 51, of his first encounter with the director, now 55, to discuss playing King Leonidas, the musclebound alpha warrior who leads an army of 300 Spartans into battle with Xerxes.

The Snyder Cut is writing many wrongs.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticFor 45 years, Hollywood has churned out sequels to more or less any movie that makes a big enough splash at the box office. The rationale has always been simple: The fans want it.

(Below you will find spoilers for the Joker’s new scene in “Zack Snyder’s Justice League”)While nearly all of “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” is made up of footage he shot for the film when Zack Snyder was working on it the first time, there are two exceptions: The stuff involving the Martian Manhunter, and a new apocalyptic Knightmare vision of the future that features none other than Jared Leto’s Joker.In the trailer for “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” Leto’s Joker made waves for uttering a

Now that “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” is out for the world to see, and with the filmmaker being more open to talking about the work he was doing before stepping away from the film, fans are eager to know more of what could have been with Snyder’s vision for the future of the DC universe. Turns out, in a different timeline, not only could we have got three “Justice League” movies, but Adam Driver and Daniel Day-Lewis could have played roles in the franchise.

After years of fan campaigning and cryptic, enigmatic teases about the existence of a “Snyder Cut,” Zack Synder finally got to bring his vision for a “Justice League” movie to life, even if he had to shoot it himself without Warner Bros. permission.

So, it’s been about 12 hours since “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” hit HBO Max. That means die-hard fans could have seen it three times by now.

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For better or worse, filmmaker Zack Snyder treats superheroes, especially those from the DC Universe, not as human beings with relatable problems, but as gods and mythic archetype figures that have to carry the burden of humanity on their shoulders. His films are grandiose in that regard, epic in scale, but also consequently melodramatic, solemn, and sometimes thunderingly overwrought.

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The Hollywood Critics Association is set to give Zack Snyder its first-ever Valiant Award at the virtual 4th Annual HCA Film Awards ceremony on Friday. "As a fan of Synder's ever since Dawn of the Dead, I couldn't be happier that we will be acknowledging his visionary filmmaking and resilience to overcome any obstacles," HCA chair Scott Menzel said in a statement on Wednesday.

The release of “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” is so close we can already hear the angry sounds of people typing their response to the film’s release. In the meantime, Zack Snyder is busy doing promotions for the film and hyping up what has become the holy grail of directors’ cut of films.