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Zack Snyder is not getting paid for the Snyder Cut

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WarnerMedia relented, but in order to get the kind of control of the project that he failed to have on the feature film, Snyder had to forgo his salary.

"I'm not getting paid," Snyder told the magazine. "I didn't want to be beholden to anyone, and it allowed me to keep my negotiating powers with these people pretty strong."
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looks like he might have also done it to keep the OG creative vision intact. curious how it plays out.

Interesting Read from Vanity Fair talking about the Journey to how the Snyder Cut was born:
www.vanityfair.com

‘Justice League’: The Shocking, Exhilarating, Heartbreaking True Story of #TheSnyderCut

A demoralizing battle with Warner Bros. A devastating personal tragedy. A fan base he couldn’t control. Zack Snyder tells V.F. why he quit ‘Justice League,’ and why he’s returned to complete a cut that’s reached near-mythical status.
www.vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com
 
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wwm0nkey

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I still don't think it's going to be good, but at least the man wants to get his vision out there, so I can respect the move.
 
lmcfigs

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I wonder if it's because they're letting him do that Fountainhead movie he's always wanted to do.
 
kurahador

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That is some dedication, damn. I'm just glad that weird post apocalypse Batman flashforward will get answered at least.
 
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wwm0nkey said:
I still don't think it's going to be good, but at least the man wants to get his vision out there, so I can respect the move.
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Agreed. At 4 hours plus I'm not sure I see many other directors getting this much control over a studio IP. Though of course the pandemic among other factors also played a big part.

lmcfigs said:
I wonder if it's because they're letting him do that Fountainhead movie he's always wanted to do.
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More likely that they let him take some of his older WB projects (such as Fountainhead) to Netflix via turnaround. This is what happened with Army Of The Dead which had been at Warners since he did 300 IIRC.
 
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Wait if he hasnt seen the existing one - does that mean that the new one is a entire re-shoot? I thought they said it'll be the same movie but with deleted scenes added?
 
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BasilZero said:
Wait if he hasnt seen the existing one - does that mean that the new one is a entire re-shoot? I thought they said it'll be the same movie but with deleted scenes added?
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It's not a re-shoot. He is only using the footage he shot back then, before Whedon reshot around 60% of the film, plus around 4 minutes of new footage he shot in the Fall.
 
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I mean he's rich enough that he can make this statement, but good on him I guess. He's clearly passionate about his vision.
 
Dan Thunder

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Not surprised tbh. Warners spent a fortune on the original film and it clearly under-performed. In reality being given $70m+ (allegedly)and getting to go back in and reshape the film is his payment.
 
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There's an entire Vanity Fair article that went up about this today... it's a good read into what happened that lead to this whole thing.

www.vanityfair.com

‘Justice League’: The Shocking, Exhilarating, Heartbreaking True Story of #TheSnyderCut

A demoralizing battle with Warner Bros. A devastating personal tragedy. A fan base he couldn’t control. Zack Snyder tells V.F. why he quit ‘Justice League,’ and why he’s returned to complete a cut that’s reached near-mythical status.
www.vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com
 
mutantmagnet

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but he's never sat through the version released to the world three years ago. His wife, Deborah, who produced the movie, advised him not to
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Alright which one of you is Snyder's wife? :p

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After their private screening of the Whedon cut, Nolan and Deborah Snyder emerged into the light with a shared mission. "They came and they just said, 'You can never see that movie,'" Zack Snyder says during lunch at his Pasadena office, a modernist series of cubes jutting from a hillside that overlooks the Rose Bowl.
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Alright which one of you is Nolan?
 
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Makes sense.
 
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LukeOP said:
Does this man really need his vision out there? Why:
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Can't believe I'm defending Snyder, but this is basically a way of getting closure on a rough period of his life. He lost his daughter and then was taken off a movie he'd spent years working on, all that effort into pre-production and filming, only for someone else to come in during post to re-shoot it.

So it's just about getting some closure on the whole affair, and he's rich and entitled enough to actually do it. Having good relationships with key people in the WB food chain also doesn't hurt. WB doesn't do this kind of thing for anybody, it's almost unheard of actually.
 
The Adder

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He got paid for it once already and he's already wealthy. Makes sense as a move to get to finally make what he wants.
 
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lmcfigs said:
I wonder if it's because they're letting him do that Fountainhead movie he's always wanted to do.
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I don't think he and Warners will be working together anymore. "You can do your movie but we're not paying you" four years after firing him isn't exactly fertile ground for a great relationship lol. Most likely he'll just work with Netflix for the time being.
 
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Sorry but I gotta call bullshit on him not seeing Whedon's version. It's been years, you can't tell me he hasn't been curious enough to at least watch it once
 
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Sounds like something that would be illegal for WB so there is probably some other form of payment.
 
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Fisty said:
Sorry but I gotta call bullshit on him not seeing Whedon's version. It's been years, you can't tell me he hasn't been curious enough to at least watch it once
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Edgar Wright has never seen Ant-Man. I'm sure Lord and Miller have never seen Solo. It's probably low-key traumatizing to put that much time, that much work, that much of yourself into a project, only to be fired off it and have it handed to someone else who makes it something completely different. Add in the more higher stakes trauma of his daughter dying around that time and probably carrying some added weight from that alone, and I don't think Snyder really needs much reason to want to watch that movie at all.
 
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Fisty said:
Sorry but I gotta call bullshit on him not seeing Whedon's version. It's been years, you can't tell me he hasn't been curious enough to at least watch it once
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He hasn't seen it. It's not hard to believe. He's said multiple times that he has no intention of seeing it. When fans would post images from it on Vero and ask him if they were from his version or Joss's he'd always be like "I have no idea what this is" or "what Russian Family?"
 
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Gotta find some way to slag Synder for this article...

Oh yeah he's totally lying about seeing the 2017 cut after his wife/collaborator and Nolan both told him not too, epecially considering the circumstances that befell him during the filming. Honestly, what the fuck?
 
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Blader said:
Edgar Wright has never seen Ant-Man. I'm sure Lord and Miller have never seen Solo. It's probably low-key traumatizing to put that much time, that much work, that much of yourself into a project, only to be fired off it and have it handed to someone else who makes it something completely different. Add in the more higher stakes trauma of his daughter dying around that time and probably carrying some added weight from that alone, and I don't think Snyder really needs much reason to want to watch that movie at all.
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For those first examples, I dont necessarily believe them either. Its FAR easier to just throw some gentle shade by saying you've never seen the finished product without having to agonizingly compare and contrast an intended version of the film that will never be seen with the one that was released in every single interview for years.

As for the second part, yeah I get that but he chose to go back and finish his cut so its not like he was emotionally unable to interact with the scenes he shot during that period.
 
caliph95

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I'm not going to like this movie at all and but i can appreciate his dedication

Now if only his movies are better
 
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