Report: Zack Snyder was fired from Justice League

New claims change the story behind Snyder’s departure from the film

It was reported that Zack Snyder left Justice League to deal with the personal matters after the death of his daughter, but new reports say that the director was fired from the project before that situation developed.

“In my mind, I thought it was a cathartic thing to go back to work, to just bury myself and see if that was way through it,” Snyder said at the time. “The demands of this job are pretty intense. It is all consuming. And in the last two months I’ve come to the realization … I’ve decided to take a step back from the movie to be with my family, be with my kids, who really need me. They are all having a hard time. I’m having a hard time.”

Veteran entertainment reporter Josh Dickey is leaving the industry, and burned a few bridges by tweeting a series of links with some context about his time in the industry. One of his claims was that Snyder didn’t leave the project voluntarily, but was instead fired from the film.

Since I’m shifting into DGAF mode, here’s a hot one for ya: Zack Snyder was fired from the DCEU just over 1 year ago. Couldn’t write it ~quite~ that way at the time, but was able to tapdance around it [clumsy/oblique headline not mine] https://t.co/7cht70rCaG

— Josh L. Dickey (@JLDlite) February 10, 2018

Collider is backing up that account of events.

“I’d heard similar things from separate sources over the last year as well,” Matt Goldberg wrote. “I also heard that Snyder’s rough-cut of the movie was ‘unwatchable’ (a word that jumped out at me because it’s rare you hear two separate sources use the exact same adjective). Of course, even if that’s true, there’s obviously more to the story since rough cuts can be fixed up with reshoots, rewrites, etc.”

The sensitive nature of Snyder’s family tragedy played a part in keeping this story from being reported, according to some, but it also seems true that no one was willing to go on the record to confirm or deny whether Snyder left or was fired.

“So why didn’t anyone report this until now?” Collider stated. “Because it’s also true that Snyder was dealing with a personal matter. It may not have been the reason he left Justice League, but no one wanted to pile on to a guy who had just lost a child.”

We’ve reached out to Warner Bros. for comment. The company has commented on Snyder’s future involvement with the DC films in the past.

“Zack Snyder is not currently scheduled to direct a DC film, but he is serving as a producer or executive producer on upcoming DC pictures such as Wonder Woman 2 and Aquaman,” Warner Bros. told Polygon in a previous statement.

Source: Polygon – Full