Here comes Zack Snyder’s Justice League! The film has been a Holy Grail of sorts for Snyder and his army of fans, after years of promises about what might have been if he held on to the control he had at the DCEU’s birth. Even now, with a new clip from the film debuting at IGN Fan Fest, Snyder is still teasing storylines that are part of a larger whole that we’ll never get to see.
The clip is actually the opening credit sequence from the film, rather than a traditional scene. Titled “The Mother Box Origins” and set, not to “Hallelujah” as we’ve been accustomed, but to Tom Waits song “Time”, it features the Justice League heroes in marbled scenes on a Mother Box, done in the style of classic Greek and Roman sculptures.
“I doodled all those. There’s a million Easter eggs in it, and if you go look there’s storylines that I had been working on that if the film had been continued or if you look at the past histories, there’s a bunch of little details in there for everybody,” he teased. “It’s really worth taking a long slow look at because it’s really fun, and I think for fans it’s really a treat.”
Eagle-eyed fans are undoubtedly pouring through every bit of it. Mostly what I could pick out are nods to the characters’ super-powered origins and legacies, which are so important to the fabric of the DC Universe.
Zack Snyder’s Justice League hits HBO Max on March 18th, and according to Snyder [via Batman News] the black & white version will be coming later this year, too, possibly with a full IMAX release with an intermission scored by Junkie XL. I’m guessing all of that depends on the audience reaction.
