00:00So I was just curious if you maybe repurposed any Superman footage for Justice League.
00:10We live in a society where honor is a distant memory.
00:16All right, I'm gonna kick us off. So Sean and I have a weekly show where we've been discussing
00:21all things Snyder Cut, and a lot of people are super excited about the additional photography,
00:25so I have to ask, who wrote the dialogue for that? Because I think the internet needs to
00:29know who to thank for the Joker's we live in a society line. I wrote the dialogue for it,
00:36for the scene, for that scene. But, you know, it was, I had sent it over to Chris,
00:45you know, when I was getting ready to just see if he had any tweaks and he seemed,
00:48he thought it was pretty cool, so yeah. Isn't that right?
00:55Batman. Zach, I'm curious, over the three years when, you know, everybody was discussing the
01:00rumored cut, how many times do you estimate that you busted it out and screened it for
01:05friends and family in that theater room that you have? Oh, maybe, maybe less than a dozen times,
01:12probably. Not, not that much, you know, it was, you know, frankly, I was, it was,
01:20it was a thing that, you know, first of all, it was long. And, you know, my type group, the group
01:29that I'm with most of the time, they're, they kind of know the story, and they're kind of knee deep
01:34in it. So the last thing they wanted was to, you know, it's like that. You're like, I'm like that
01:40crazy guy that's like, come look at my movie. It's awesome. You know, so they're, so I think
01:46in that sense, you know, it was, it was like a handful of times, but, you know, it was really
01:50interesting, you know, to do it because, you know, they, people would always be like, holy
01:56jeez, like, this is crazy. Like, what is this? It's my legacy.
02:00Hey Sean and hi Hannah, how are you? Wonderful, thank you. So happy to get some time with you.
02:06I have to start here. Watching the film, I noticed the AFSP Easter egg that you included
02:12in the billboard with the message telling people you are not alone. And I was hoping you could just
02:16talk to us about the decision to include that and how you guys decided where to put it.
02:22Well, you know, I think this journey for us, I think, towards Zack Snyder's Justice League really,
02:31you know, started with the fans and them taking on a cause that obviously, you know,
02:38is near and dear to us. But I also think like today, you know, with the year we've had with
02:45so many people losing their jobs or losing loved ones, mental health is so important.
02:51So we wanted to continue the work to support AFSP. And a lot of the things we're doing at the
02:58release of the film are also, you know, fundraising, you know, for money for them. But
03:03also, I think to generate awareness, because I think mental health, so many times, there's still
03:09such a stigma, you know, against it. And people are afraid to talk about it. They're embarrassed
03:15to talk about it. And when we made the decision to come forward about, you know, our tragic loss of
03:22Autumn, we did so, you know, very thoughtfully, but also feeling like maybe out of such a horrible
03:30thing, we can at least, you know, tell our story and tell people that there are help, that there's
03:36help out there. And kind of, you know, spread that word that it's okay to talk about it. And
03:42there is support out there. So, you know, I think it's been amazing to see this fan community
03:49embrace this cause. And even when they were trying to get the movie made all along,
03:54they were still raising money and raising awareness for AFSP.
03:58So there was this billboard, and we had something else on it. And Zach was like,
04:02I think this would be a great place to kind of incorporate it in the movie.
04:06I'm not broken. And I'm not alone.
04:11There's a shot of Superman in Justice League, and I won't say where, but it looks very similar to me
04:16to a shot that we see in Man of Steel. So I was just curious if you maybe repurposed
04:21any Superman footage for Justice League?
04:25I wonder. Yeah.
04:28That's it?
04:30I mean, listen, we're in a pandemic. So, you know, it was a very, doing the,
04:37finding the shots and performance was challenging. So, but we were able to figure it out.
04:43You have been to the art of deception as Mozart to the harpsichord.
04:48I want to switch gears a little bit. I think a lot of female forward films,
04:51especially in this genre, struggle to convey a feminist message without being a little bit cheesy
04:57or too on the nose. And in Justice League, there's a moment with Wonder Woman that I thought could
05:02have fallen into that trap, but it didn't. So I was just curious if that was something
05:05that you guys were conscious of.
05:07Well, I think there's two moments for me with Wonder Woman. You know, Wonder Woman,
05:13it's always been important to have this balance of femininity, but also of strength. And we have
05:19to look like the root of her character, you know, was born with, you know, in feminism.
05:25So I think striking that balance was really important. But I love the fact when the little
05:31girl, after she saves all the kids and she says, can I be like you one day? And she says,
05:37you can be anything you want to be, because I think we're all Wonder Woman, right? That's
05:42the message there. And then I do love when in the tunnel battle, when Steppenwolf says,
05:49this one is mine. And she goes, I belong to no one. And I just, I just think that is such a
05:55powerful moment, you know, so and that's what I love about her in this version of the film.
06:02We really get to see her as a warrior, but we also get to see to the struggle with her of her
06:07missing her family. Um, you know, because I think that's the thing, like as a woman and seeing women
06:14in comics and in action, I want them to be dimensional, you know, you don't have to be
06:18just one thing, you know, you can be vulnerable and sensitive, and you can also be tough and
06:25strong at the same time. Obviously, you know, over the course of this whole thing, you encourage the
06:33release of Snyder Cut family, keep fighting for this version of it. Now that there is a
06:38restore the Snyderverse campaign, I'm wondering if you have a message for those folks.
06:43Listen, you know, I said, I really, I really appreciate the support. It's unbelievable.
06:48And I couldn't, you know, I think it's just a testament in a lot of ways to the way we,
06:54we approach these characters and the way I feel about them. And I think the way I feel about them
06:59is similar to the way a lot of the fans feel about them in the sense that, you know, they really
07:03take this seriously, and they believe in this mythology, and they, you know, they want, you
07:08know, to know, they want to go on that journey. And so, you know, all I can say is that we didn't
07:16think we'd be here, making this movie, releasing it, that's for sure I didn't. So, you know,
07:23I just, I'm happy to talk with the fans anytime they want about, you know, about the universe.
07:30And yeah, the time is now.
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