So with big changes coming at Warner Bros over the next few years and Justice League
having an increasingly successful run since its release, what does this mean for a
Justice League 2.
After WarnerMedia declared that they would not be continuing with a Snyder Cut sequel,
it felt like there would be no hope for it to eventually happen.
But with multiple indications, has that now reversed.
Well in this video, I'm going to be breaking down all the reasons why I think a Justice
League 2 is now very possible, and how it could develop as we move
into the future Like the first film, a lot of things have to go right for this to happen,
but as I keep saying in all my Justice League videos, look what happened
the first time around.
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But without further ado, let's dive into my thoughts and reasoning
behind why a Justice League 2 is now very possible.
So with Army of the Dead being a big success for Netflix, with Zack Snyder's Justice League
scoring critical approval and strong viewership for HBO Max and numerous
platforms around the world, and with new leadership about to take over Warner Bros, it’s time
for WarnerMedia and Discovery to offer Zack Snyder a chance to complete his
Justice League story.
There’s no reasoning in saying that there isn't an audience for the project or that
it wouldn’t be a significant property for the studio, and there's
no point to let resentments, internal battles, or clickbait websites serve as problems to
the right business and artistic answer.
A Zack Snyder’s Justice League Part 2 could just for one example be made as a miniseries
and divided into chapters like the Snyder Cut, so audiences can stream it how they want.
At $25 million per chapter, it would have a bigger per-episode budget than The Mandalorian
and on par with Marvel’s spending for their new streaming series like WandaVision.
If it’s around four hours in runtime, that’s perhaps five episodes with 48-minute slots,
and would overall, come to a cost of about $125 million.
That’s a very reasonable price for a high-quality big property with an existing
fanbase in the millions.
It would keep the engagement over weeks, continue to demonstrate the idea of DC content’s
ability to build separate divergent corners of its “multiverse” approach and would
continue making premium exclusive content that attracts both the built-in fanbase and
new audiences.
It further opens the door to additional content and spinoffs, along with adaptations of things
such as Ben Affleck’s Batman screenplay.
It would all depend on Zack Snyder deciding if he wanted to re-enter negotiations and
get involved with Warner’s DC brand again.
But as he has pointed at in interviews, he loves the brand and if the opportunity came
about, he would of course want to do it.
Then again, the Snyders have a lot on their schedule, having just launched a new IP at
Netflix, but this could actually work to everyone’s advantage.
With Snyder potentially one of the most talked-about directors
this year, it would help to attain new viewers to multiple brands and platforms, resulting
in a win-win situation.
Even if we did have to wait a bit longer for the
Justice League sequel.
The entire DCEU situation is again not set in stone, with new leadership at the very
top who could reach out for different films and directors, building professional relationships
across the board.
This is something that has damaged Warner Bros over the last few years
and it could act as a repairing of the problems.
Warner Bros used to be known as the studio that was filmmaker-driven and more recently,
that hasn't been the case.
So it would be a good step in the right direction
and good publicity to take Snyder as one opportunity.
The fact is, DC is a major iconic global brand and it is very much in the brand’s best
interests to not just put out great new content but also consistently demonstrate a willingness
and desire to improve and reexamine past content for improvement and redemption.
The more and better conversations people are having around these properties, the more it
works to the brand, and thus the studio's advantage.
Rebuilding relationships with their biggest filmmakers such as Zack Snyder, Christopher
Nolan and Denis Villeneuve, alongside this new Discovery takeover of the company,
is something that I think they will look to achieve over the coming years.
Hence a Justice League sequel.
The big selling point is that DC are going all-in on their multiverse, and alongside
properties like Matt Reeves The Batman, which people are also very excited about, you
can have them co-exist.
The Batman is coming out in theatres next year and that doesn't mean we can't see a
Justice League 2 released on HBO Max and theatres for a limited
time.
With The flash film including Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck's Batman toon, the audience
will soon get the multiverse approach that they are going for and
adding the SnyderVerse alongside this after its recent success, it will only bolster the
potential that Warner Bros is sitting on.
The point is, the studio and streamer could work together to mine original content, multiple
adaptations and the entire nostalgic toy box of DC’s history.
Would fans tune in for all of this?
Of course, they would.
Especially if the studios adopt an even smarter approach by combining the subscribers of HBO
services with Discovery when they eventually merge.
At the very least, all iterations of HBO should just get merged and
everybody who subscribes should be signed up for an account automatically, whether they
use it or not, and in turn, they could have a notice about the release.
There’s already over 200 million combined subscribers to HBO on cable, streaming, online
accounts, and Discovery+.
While obviously the streaming side’s subscription rate has been
a struggle for Warner in several regards, they have the total audience if they can just
figure out how to intelligently move them in the right direction.
This scenario creates a big unified DCU of live-action TV/streaming content alongside
the primary live-action cinematic DCEU content, and then there are the separate projects fleshing
out other corners of the multiverse including the Snyderverse.
In this way, the studio could curate the DC content into more easily identifiable categories,
and I think that will make it easier for new viewers to jump in while encouraging longtime
fans and viewers to take part in more content they haven’t seen.
DC is one of the greatest and recognizable pop culture brands in history and they have
almost a century of content published monthly in dozens of titles, from which the best ideas
and stories can be adapted and otherwise used as inspiration for new ones.
Any new media merger needs to maximize the use of that brand and expand the development
of the IP further than ever before and from what we've seen with the Snyder Cut, the payoff
can and will be enormous.
In China it has been streamed over 250 million times, it's
still, number 1 in the UK and the figures for HBO Max are slowly becoming clearer with
the Snyder Cut being the most streamed this year on the platform, by a big margin.
As you know, I’ve been in full support of Matt Reeves making The Batman, just like Zack
Snyder has shown too, and seeing a new trilogy that could show Batman in a new way and
even darker than ever, is something that hugely excites me.
But I also think it's possible for fans to get all the different avenues of content that
they want to see, and there's no denying that there is an equally
large audience for the Snyderverse.
I think it’s possible for all fans to love the new content, to want more of it, and to
also support the idea of developing additional content outside of the primary theatrical
franchises, for a multiverse full of room for loads more content.
In that essence, if I was Warner Bros, it’s time to take seriously
the idea of developing a sequel to Zack Snyder’s Justice League even as other plans move ahead.
It’s a winning idea, and I think that the new heads at Warner Bros, will seriously
consider the opportunity on the table.
Ultimately, it's down to this new Discovery and Warner Media merger whether Justice League
2 will happen.
But if you add up the points that I have mentioned, what studio in
their right mind would deny the possibilities available.
The Discovery boss said in an interview that he aims to unlock the potential of different
IP and rebuild relationships with filmmakers.
If that is the case, then I think Justice League 2 will happen.
But they were my thoughts on the current standing of a Snyder Cut sequel, and
I'm intrigued to hear what you guys think about it.
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