If you haven’t seen “Justice League” yet, and decide to go, you could make a game counting where scenes were cut to fit the mandated two-hour running time. It’s clear that the movie went through a considerable overhaul before it landed in cinemas, resulting a superhero movie with no character arcs and little context for what is happening on screen. That said, we do spend some decent time with Aquaman in his underwater world, but Jason Momoa says there was even more that just didn’t make it in.
“The challenging part is [the ‘Justice League’ story] is only about a weekend in Author Curry’s life,” he told EW. “[Fans] might be like, ‘Why is he that grumpy? Why’s he hiding up there?’ We had it all planned out. A lot of things got cut. But it’s not my movie. It’s a huge movie introducing three new characters, and for myself and The Flash and Cyborg, there was a lot that was there we just couldn’t get in. It could have been two movies. We had some stuff with Willem Dafoe. The whole Atlantean part, about me being this reluctant king. There was no need for it because you’re going to see it in ‘Aquaman.’ It’s not an Aquaman movie, it’s a Justice League movie.”
Fair point, but the statement does confirm that Zack Snyder’s vision for what was clearly a longer movie, got sliced and diced by the studio, with Joss Whedon left to stitch it together. But Momoa doesn’t really want to hear the criticisms, as far as he’s concerned, he digs it, and so do many fans.
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“I’ve seen [‘Justice League’] twice,” he said. “I loved it the second time even more. I’m actually going to watch it again with my kids and my godchild. I’m going to see it with the perfect crowd of people — a regular crowd instead of at a premiere. So I’m excited. You can’t get into the whole ‘why this, why that.’ I went to [Wizard World Austin fan convention] this weekend and got great praise. Now obviously, that’s a positive place, and I’m not only interested in the positive. But if people love what we did with Aquaman, it’s all [director Zack Snyder] — it’s his brainchild. He came in with, ‘I’m going to make Aquaman a badass and I’m going to change stuff, and change the myths about this guy.’ And I busted my ass.”
The question remains whether or not fans will get all that excised, and unfinished, Snyder footage that they’re petitioning for (probably not, is my guess) but at least diehard DC enthusiasts can count Momoa in their corner.
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