The director’s cut for 2017’s JL has opened a new door for movies moving forward, and despite some of its flaws, Zack Snyder’s Justice League remains a substantial improvement over its predecessor. But now it seems, Snyder has further plans to bring his true vision for his other movies that were cut short by the studio executives at the top.
Speaking with Letterboxd, it appears Snyder has plans of bringing a director’s cut for his most polarizing films to date. Although some fans claim Sucker Punch was some sort of misunderstood piece of art, it is widely regarded as one of the biggest misfires of 2011, and Snyder seems to be aware of that. But it seems, he is finally trying to change it.
Sucker Punch Was Deemed One of the Worst Movies of 2011 by Quentin Tarantino
Before landing the keys to DC in 2013 with Man of Steel, Snyder rose to fame by crafting movies like 300, resulting in WB giving him the green light to adapt more prominent IPs on the big screen. However, his next big release, Watchman, failed to bring the aspects that made the original work by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons so iconic, resulting in an underwhelming reception. But moving forward from this setback, the director decided to move away from big IPs and bring his own original story to the big screens, Sucker Punch, which failed substantially.
Despite being visually appealing, the film never clicked with critics nor fans, earning $89M from its $82M budget, and was deservingly deemed as one of the worst movies of 2011 by Quentin Tarantino. But Snyder might’ve some plans ready under his sleeves to revive his original work.
Zack Snyder Plans on Bringing a Director’s Cut of Sucker Punch
Sucker Punch comprises a lot of factors that don’t make it work, often feeling like many movies were cramped together for this one, but there might still be some hope for any Sucker Punch fans out there. Reflecting on his 2011 film, Zack Snyder expressed he has plans of bringing the director’s cut of Sucker Punch in the future as he is yet to assemble it. According to him, the original ending for the film was too weird for the studios, and the additional 18 minutes included in its Blu-way addition didn’t do justice to his vision. Snyder claimed the ending was,
“Weirdly not optimistic and optimistic at the same time. That’s kind of what the tone was at the end. We tested it and the studio thought it was too weird, so we changed it.”
With Snyder currently busy crafting his projects for Netflix, it might be a while before he gets into assembling his true vision for 2011’s Sucker Punch. But considering even apart from the ending, the movie had too many flaws, it’s hard to say whether it’ll make it out of Tarantino’s pick for worst movies of 2011.
Sucker Punch is available to stream on Apple TV.
Source: Letterboxd
