
Although the 2021 release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League felt like the final hurrah of a long-gone cinematic universe, the divisive filmmaker re-fueled the fire with a cryptic Twitter message regarding a certain Anti-Life despot. His Superman reboot Man of Steel launched the fledgling DC Extended Universe in 2013, and 2016’s controversial Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice was a follow-up that sowed the seeds for the first cinematic depiction of the Justice League. But after a family tragedy resulted in Snyder being replaced by Joss Whedon as director of Justice League, the theatrical cut was a box-office bomb that obliterated the cohesiveness of live-action DC Comics canon.