Justice League
Production cost: $370 million
Directors: Zach Schneider, Joss Whedon
Issuing company: Warner
Worldwide box office: $650 million
On May 23, 2017, the original director Zach Schneider withdrew from the post-production of "Justice League" due to family and other reasons, and "Avengers" director Joss Whedon took over the follow-up work of the film, the film was reshooted in London and Los Angeles for two months, and the follow-up reshoot cost more than $25 million, making the production cost of the film directly as high as 300 million US dollars!
2017 Justice League
Unfortunately, the two directors have very different styles, taking over halfway and Warner executives asked to control the length of the film within 2 hours, a magical operation led to the film's box office reputation double hit the street, the global box office only gained 650 million US dollars, not only caused a loss of 60 million US dollars, but also to the first phase of the DC universe plan on the end.
Before that, even DC black fans did not dare to say that the top IP of "Justice League", which gathered 6 popular heroes, would lose tens of millions of dollars! Say it, anyone dare to believe it? A certain company god operation really swollen the faces of Sunspot and fans!
Fan-led cut movement
In 2019, DC fans called on Warner, the producer of Justice League, to "release the za director edited version" by speaking out on social media, buying newspaper pages, organizing crowdfunding, etc., and the film's "Batman" Ben Affleck, "Wonder Woman" Gayle Gadot, and "Aquaman" Jason Momma also expressed support for this action.
At the end of 2019, Warner executives expressed their support for Zach Schneider's comeback to produce the director's cut version of "Justice League" and added a budget of $70 million, so that the film cost $370 million, surpassing the record of $350 million set by "Avengers 4: Endgame" in 2019 to become the most expensive movie in history!
Although the 4-hour guide cut film critics only received 54 points of evaluation, but film critics, domestic Douban and IMDB fan groups have scored a high score of 8.1, streaming media only three days online more than the 4 months of Wonder Woman 2, far exceeding the industry's expectations! The only regret is that there is a high probability that there will be no sequels.
2021 Justice League