If you read inside accounts, Either Snyder Quit or was fired, Unfortunately the death of his daughter was used as an excuse so the film didnt receive A death blow .....
basically by all Accounts, Snyder Showed WB an early first cut of the film....WB was horrified, and deemed The cut "Unwatchable"....WB then mandated The film had to be changed and lighten, Snyder of course didnt want or like this, but had no choice but to go along, WB brings in Whedon to write new scenes, Insiders say, Snyder was involved at this point, and was even working with Whedon on new scenes and Lighten the tone....But things went downhill Quickly, WB quickly started moving towards Whedons "Tone" of The film and Ideas, Wanted Whedon to lighten it even more and write even more new Scenes....This is when Snyder was out....
at some point Snyder had to go to WB and say, "I dont agree with whats going on, Whedon is changes the movie too much, This is not what I want, I dont agree with this"
at that point 1 of 2 things had to have happened....Either WB said "I'm sorry but you have no choice, The Execs are not happy with your Film, This is a company decision....changes are being made"
Or probably more likely Snyder saw the handwriting on the wall and simply quit, went WB and said look "We obviously have 2 completely different visions, I'm not on board with what Whedon is doing, But this is your Movie and company So its your choice, I think it would be best if I leave the movie all together and Whedon Finishes it"
at some point, ^ this convo happened....
the truly awful thing here is, either Snyder, WB or BOTH used his daughters death as A card to play so the movie wouldnt recieve A Death Blow of negative media when word got out that Snyder had been fired or quit because of creative differences....
WB would have been looking at A "Fantastic Four"(2015) type Disaster if it got out that Snyder quit or was fired because he once again made another BvS type disaster with JL....
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ALurker (485)
6 years ago
Yeah, I could see creative differences being very likely upon his termination (whether if Snyder quits or got fired).
But how would that still explain him remaining executive producer for Aquaman?
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billbrown7071 (3193)
6 years ago
because Executive Producers literally dont have to do a thing...Nolan was a Producer on BvS and by all accounts he literally did nothing for the film...
Snyder role as Executive Producers truly may be as simply as someone like Wan or Jenkins calling him on the phone and running An Idea by him and seeing if he has any input....
from what Ive read, WB actually likes Snyder....thats why the stuck with him Despite FAILING literally at every turn....they have a production deal with him...
They may still want make movies with him, Just Not comic book movies....
I would expect Aquaman, Wonder Woman 2, A Flash solo movie and Maybe even Shazam to still have him as a producer because All of the films were either in Production, Pre Production or early planning stages while Snyder was still there and Still giving Input....
Aquaman by far the easiest to explain, it would be impossible for Snyder NOT to be a Producer on that Film, Because Wan had to have Spent A HUGE amount of time with Snyder in Pre Production and even before signing on to direct....Wan would have wanted to know every single thing that was going to happen in JL, what Snyders Vision was for Aquaman in JL and if Wan wanted to go along with that....Wan and Snyder probably Ran ideas back and forth all the time through 2016 and early 2017....
The real test will be if the DCEU continues...I would expect Movies like Green Lantern, The Batman, Maybe Suicide Squad 2 to be Snyderless,I highly doubt Snyder will get a producer credit on these films....
right now the batch of films that are coming out all started out when Snyder was still in DEEP with the DCEU....and All these films, all the directors had to go through Snyder and Talk to him because He was doing JL, They needed to know exactly what was taking place, what his visions for the characters were and see if they wanted to sign on and what not....
I cant imagine movies like Green Lantern, The Batman or even Suicide Squad 2 having anything to with Snyder....
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ALurker (485)
6 years ago
Oh, I see. That one would make sense.
Plus Aquaman is also almost literally around the corner for next year. So it would've been a little late to try to have Snyder's name pull out from the credits of Aquaman, at least.
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