A successful Justice League could have sustained Snyder’s DC vision

Ben Affleck has alleged that Warner Bros used Zack Snyder’s family tragedy as a pretext to replace him on Justice League, renewing questions about the film’s troubled production. The claim also revives the possibility that Snyder’s departure helped derail a distinctive DC film universe.

Snyder left the project in 2017 after his daughter died; Joss Whedon then rewrote and reshot the film. Affleck called the reshoots the lowest point of his career and praised Snyder’s later four-hour version, released in 2021. The article notes that Batman v Superman earned $874 million worldwide despite poor critical reviews, and argues that a successful Snyder-led Justice League might have allowed his wider vision to continue.