The Snyder Cut of Justice League also had stuff with Darkseid and his minions planning to come to Earth and find out what happened to Steppenwolf, etc. Guessing the following movies would have been a lot like the Thanos story, except the goons would have likely continued showing up one at a time and gotten their own movies instead of all showing up as underbosses with the big guy. They also alluded to Superman turning evil in one of the future movies and everyone else having to team up to subdue him. There were some good ideas for long-term plans there.
Oh boy this is something I know a bit about.
JL 1 was to introduce Steppenwolf as Darkseid’s Lt.
JL 2 was the “knightmare” scenario hinted at in BVS. Darkseid takes control of Superman or manipulates him to be evil after Lois Lane dies (pregnant with Bruce Wayne’s baby for some stupid reason).
JL3 was to be the big ending with Superfriends vs Darkseid.
now, the Bruce Wayne + Lois Lane sounds ridiculous. But I did like the Knightmare scene in BVS and in SnyderCut. I think seeing Superman being evil would be really interesting.
ultimately, I don’t think WB has good leadership. The comics have been a hot mess since the end of the New 52 in 2016. The movies have been atrocious (with a rare good one like the Batman or the Suicide Squad).
apparently David Goyer’s original cut of Suicide Squad (2016) was really good. I mean the dude made Fury (2014) right before it. He’s an amazing writer director. Fury is one of the best war movies to come out in the 21st century.
I think Snyder crushed it with Man of Steel, even if there were pacing issues and the beginning scene was too long for a blockbuster. Snyder obvi crushed it with 300, Dawn of the Dead, and I personally am hella impressed with his Watchmen adaptation (it’s very faithful to the comic).
but I don’t think WB would let him do what he wanted to do. We see that with BVS being a hot mess, we see that with Suicide Squad (2016), we saw that with Justice League.
WB owns the biggest superheroes IP. Yet they keep shooting themselves in the foot being reactionary and trying to replicate Marvel, and even Marvel hasn’t released a good MCU movie since Infinity War.
I think endgame was entertaining with fan service but an actual good movie from pacing, writing, plot development, etc it wasn’t. They killed the villain in the opening act. Then did a time travel alt universe thing. It just felt like lazy writing imo.
Spider-Man 3 was good to see Toby and Garfield again, but it was made by Sony, and tbh, I think it has the same problems as Endgame.
Deadpool 3 was great, but lesbihonest, that’s very much a Fox production white labeled as Disney.
MCU is dead, unfortunately. The Batman 2 still has hope. Super-strong-independent-woman-who-don’t-need-no-Superman looks like a GOTG clone. Not really interested in that as the actor has the charisma of a door knob.
Tom Clancy wrote alcoholism well with Jack Ryan struggling with it during the Sum of All Fears novel. Alcoholism can be portrayed really well, but, party girl with no consequences is not it, fam. Unless she drinks away her life or something.
I hope the actor and movie does well. But I genuinely don’t see how y’all are attracted to her. Different strokes for different folks, but she just isn’t my type at all.