Zack Snyder Clarifies If Future Synderverse Tasks Might Ever Occur

Snyderverse followers have not given up hope for his or her beloved franchise, and now its chief architect has given them slightly extra to carry onto. Throughout an look on the Glad Unhappy Confused podcast, Zack Snyder stated that he “would by no means say that there isn’t any method” his now-shuttered franchise would return and even claimed to have had talks about persevering with his story, even when it does not find yourself being in film kind.

Although it was formally shuttered in 2023, the DC Prolonged Universe is the franchise that simply will not die. In any other case generally known as the Snyderverse, owing to the truth that Snyder established the collection with 2013’s “Man of Metal,” the 16-film saga was alleged to be consigned to cinematic historical past as soon as James Gunn and Peter Safran took over as co-heads of the then newly-minted DC Studios in 2022. However not solely did Gunn make issues tough for himself by retaining a number of points of the erstwhile franchise, Snyder and his followers have seemingly been unable to maneuver on.

Within the wake of the DCEU got here the DC Universe, Gunn’s reimagined tackle the supply materials that might overhaul DC’s total cinematic enterprise … kind of. The director appeared unwilling to jettison each facet of the Snyderverse, and it made for a needlessly complicated delicate reboot that was the alternative of what DC wanted. In the meantime, having used some insidious ways to lastly understand the so-called “Snyder Minimize” of “Justice League,” Snyderverse followers continued to foyer for his or her hero’s full reinstatement. On the identical time, the DCEU imploded with a string of bombs in 2023 that sealed its destiny. Nonetheless, Snyder and his followers endured, and so they may simply get what they need.

James Gunn kicked off the DC Universe along with his charming crowd-pleaser “Superman,” which reimagined the Man of Metal as a extra self-conscious, endearingly goofy iteration of the character. Clearly, Gunn was not less than partially motivated by a want to set his movie other than the grim, desaturated vibes of Zack Snyder’s Superman, and in that sense, the movie was successful. Snyder then shared his constructive response to Gunn’s “Superman,” saying the DC Studios co-head was “an important steward of that world.”

All through the usually bitter and embarrassing on-line discourse surrounding the autumn of the Snyderverse, then, the 2 administrators remained on good phrases. At instances, that seemed as if it’d even result in Snyder’s return in some capability. In 2025, a viral photograph revealed that Gunn and Snyder had met, resulting in widespread hypothesis that the latter was being tapped for a future DC Studios challenge. That hypothesis was shortly shut down by Gunn, making all of it really feel like pointless fan baiting.

With all that in thoughts, it is not all that tough to see why Snyder followers nonetheless cling to hope that the director may not less than get one other shot at a DC film, even when his cinematic universe by no means will get totally resurrected. Either side of this debacle are at fault, and it is made the DC Studios launch a little bit of a bummer, to be sincere. Now, Snyder is dragging out what’s already one large drag by telling everybody that there is a probability we’ll all have to take a seat by means of one more dour deconstruction of the superhero archetype in some unspecified time in the future.

On the Glad Unhappy Confused podcast, Zack Snyder was requested about his never-realized plans for future “Justice League” movies. After claiming that followers’ ongoing love for his movies “confirms ultimately the validity of the mythology that we have been engaged on,” the director added:

“I might by no means say that there isn’t any method. I might by no means, as a result of I used to be on the trip that created ‘Justice League’ and if you happen to have been in my footwear, there have been quite a few instances, darkish instances once I would say there is no such thing as a probability that there’ll ever be my model of ‘Justice League.'”

Based on Snyder, “value” and “politics” virtually prevented “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” from surfacing in 2021. “I feel the followers ought to always remember that they did that,” he continued, earlier than touting the greater than $500,000 he and his “Launch the Snyder Minimize” motion helped elevate for the American Basis for Suicide Prevention. 

Requested whether or not his unmade “Justice League” motion pictures might ever see the sunshine of day in some kind apart from movie, the director stated, “We have completely talked about it fairly a bit,” earlier than joking that we would even see a “Broadway musical” model.

In the end, Snyder hit the nail on the pinnacle when he described his never-realized “Justice League” trilogy as “a weed that simply will not die.” It is not probably the most flattering approach to seek advice from your imaginative and prescient, however it appears acceptable nonetheless. “It grows by itself,” added Snyder, who in the end gave the impression to be extra optimistic in regards to the story of the trilogy taking part in out in some non-blockbuster format. Both method, this can little doubt sound constructive to Snyderverse followers and like extra pointless rearview-mirror gazing to those that thought James Gunn’s “Superman” proved that Snyder’s tackle the character was all the time nonsense.