Zack Snyder reveals “only movie” he wishes he could change

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Zack Snyder has revealed which of the films in his back catalogue is the only one that he still wishes he could make changes to.The director is known for revisiting his movies and creating extended director’s cuts of them, perhaps most notably in the case of the 2021 ‘Snyder Cut’ of his 2017 DC film Justice League.But in a new interview with Empire, Snyder has admitted that there is a different film that he remains somewhat unsatisfied with.“The only movie I would change is Sucker Punch, because it never really got finished correctly,” he said. “Even the director’s cut is not really the correct cut.

It’s really just an extended version. If I had the chance, I would fix that movie.”Sucker Punch stars Emily Browning as a young woman who is committed to a mental institution, and who enters a series of fantasy worlds where she and her fellow inmates are mythical warriors.Snyder went on to explain that legal issues over the rights to the film have prevented him from being able to make his desired changes.“I have the footage already shot: they just have to let me put it together,” he said. “We ask every now and then.

We have to ask again. I think there has to be a window when no-one’s got the movie.”Last year, Snyder spoke about his desire to work on a director’s cut of the film, adding that the original ending was changed as Warner Bros.

thought it was “too weird”.More recently, Snyder has hit back at the negative reviews for his 2023 Netflix sci-fi epic Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, saying he’s perplexed by the hostile reaction.With Part Two now out, the writer-director said: “I don’t really have a rebuttal to the reviews.