Zack Snyder. You can imagine the sound of millions of arrows blotting out the sun in his movie 300. You can hear the growling of the dead with Dave Batista blasting them all to hell in Army of the Dead. The name brings back memories of #ReleasetheSnyderCut and cries from all the DC fans for Joss Whedon ruining Justice League. And the man who took up the helm of DC’s super-hero ensemble and created a 4-hour movie with fans adoring it. A recent article published by Rolling Stone lands the director in a puddle of mud with severe allegations.
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Fans blast Rolling Stone for their article on Zack Snyder
Fans of Zack Snyder rushed to the rescue of the 300 director when Rolling Stone, a respected American magazine published an article that is so vile in nature that the hate behind this article is evident by reading it.
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The article starts with the inception of the release of the Snyder Cut. The article made allegations that the petitions filed on the internet with the #RelasetheSnyderCut were all created by bots (robots) and were automated to add to the value. The following words that you will read are directly placed from the source verbatim.
“A toxic social media movement had already been building around the director since at least 2018, spiking with online cries for Warner Bros. to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut of Justice League two years later. As Snyder’s demands escalated behind the scenes — including for more money to finish his four-hour director’s cut of the film for HBO Max and access to intellectual property — so did a flood of attacks aimed at Warner Bros.: calls for boycotts, demands for some executives to be fired, even death threats against them.”
The article continued, “Fans went after anyone or anything deemed a danger to the so-called SnyderVerse, including directors like Adam Wingard (whose Godzilla vs. Kong launched on HBO Max 13 days after Snyder Cut and stole some of its thunder) and movies like Wonder Woman 1984 (on which Johns was a writer). The onslaught included cyber-harassment so severe Warner Bros. security division got involved. (A Warner Bros. Discovery spokesperson declined to comment, “as this matter predates the current leadership and new company.”)
Further information regarding the controversies surrounding Zack Snyder
The article continues for additional pages and appears to reveal several conspiracies about cyber-harassment, bullying, racial differentiation, and threats of murder. The article later states about after the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, fans started hashtagging #RestoreTheSnyderVerse. This sudden movement seemed unnatural and a claim is made that the brains behind this mass mobilization of fans as a weapon were done by none other than Zack Snyder himself.
The article went so far as to term the fans as being “toxic” and call it a very toxic fandom. The following is an excerpt from the article:
“The fandom — which has been dubbed “toxic” by such outlets as Vanity Fair and Vox, with the latter noting it “has far more in common with abusive right-wing campaigns like Gamergate than with most of the mainstream geek culture” — continued to push, and Snyder began negotiations with Warner Bros. on a Justice League redo in January 2020.”
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Zack Snyder was last seen directing Army of Thieves which is a prequel to the Army of the Dead. There have been yet, no comments from the director himself but it seems the situation is going to get quite messy.
Source: RollingStone
