Now that “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” is out for the world to see, and with the filmmaker being more open to talking about the work he was doing before stepping away from the film, fans are eager to know more of what could have been with Snyder’s vision for the future of the DC universe. Turns out, in a different timeline, not only could we have got three “Justice League” movies, but Adam Driver and Daniel Day-Lewis could have played roles in the franchise.
During an interview with MTV News, Snyder opened up about some of the casting rumors that sprung up over the years about his “SnyderVerse” and the actors he approached at some point for roles in his movies. When asked about the rumor that Adam Driver was at one point going to play Dick Grayson/Nightwing in “Batman v Superman,” Snyder cleared things up. “I did talk to Adam Driver about a role, but it wasn’t Nightwing,” he confirmed.
Likewise, Snyder seems to confirm he once approached Daniel Day-Lewis to play General Zod in “Man of Steel” before the role went to Michael “I fell asleep during ‘Batman v Superman’” Shannon. “We did talk, we had hoped Daniel Day-Lewis would be interested in the movie,” Snyder says, before gesturing that things didn’t work out as he had hoped.
Snyder also reiterated that he had a plan to do more “Justice League” movies, and doesn’t know whether anything will happen to that now that the Snyder Cut has been released. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, the filmmaker expanded on his idea for the next two parts of his five-part trilogy (no, I don’t understand that either). “Darkseid comes to Earth. Superman says to Batman, ‘Guard Lois. This is a war between me and Darkseid. If you can help me as a friend, keep Lois safe,” Snyder said regarding what the next movie would have been about.
Of course, in the middle of all this, is Lex Luthor. “Lex tells Darkseid that the key to Superman’s weaknesses is killing Lois Lane,” Snyder adds. “For whatever reason, Batman fails. Darkseid comes back and kills Lois. Batman fails, he hesitates. They were in an argument.”
Then, for the third film, Snyder planned to pull a classic comicbook trope (recently seen in “Avengers: Endgame“) and fix everything with some alternate timeline/time travel shenanigans. “What happens in the post-apocalyptic world is, Cyborg works on an equation to use a Mother Box to jump Flash back in time to warn Bruce about this moment, where he didn’t have the courage to sacrifice himself to save Lois,” Snyder explains. “So in that moment, he does the right thing and sacrifices himself.”