Zack Snyder Shares The Superman Idea He Couldn’t Use Because It ‘Broke’ The Studio’s Minds

Anyone who watched the four-hour cut of Zack Snyder’s "Justice League," the one that his fans had to fight in order to get released, knows that Snyder would have explored the rich history of the DC Universe, going as far back as to show Darkseid, Steppenwolf and the Old Gods battling over the Mother Boxes, and Anti-Life Equation. Snyder explained chunks of this when his trailer for the Snyder Cut was released, because you can now watch the movie in full with an HBO Max subscription. But as we learned recently during the SnyderCon event in Pasadena, that was just the tip of the iceberg in terms of things Snyder and his collaborators discussed. But the studio wouldn’t allow it. SnyderCon was a three-day event held for fans that screened the three DC movies that Zack Snyder made for Warner Bros. We even included them on our list of Snyder’s films, ranked. And after each screening, fans got the chance to ask Snyder questions about the making of the films. Following the screening of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," one fan brought up the long-standing rumor regarding an open Pod Bay in the scout ship that brought baby Kal-El to Earth. Some say that it might have belonged to Kara Zor-El, aka Clark’s cousin. Snyder, however, wanted to connect that backstory to the gods.