Zack Snyder

It gave them a second kick at the can in home video, right?

So they would be like, that's so cool.

We get a whole other movie to market that like never before seen footage.

You know, it just feels like a cool thing.

And so that was how I've always done my directors because always as a response to what the studio was telling me couldn't be in the movie.

Cause I, I never planned.

I would always go into it like bright eyed, like, Oh, everyone's going to love this.

It's clearly, you know, the studio, when, when you see my cut, you're going to think it's amazing.

And they would like look at it and go like, bro, like that's no, like this too much.

And so that's what, that's where my director's cuts kind of as a, just as a practice were born, you know, it was, it was born out of that me needing to show the world what I intended originally.

And so, you know,

And by the time now that I've got to Netflix with this Rebel Moon movie and my sort of the mythology around my director's cuts was kind of a thing, especially with Justice League, as you can imagine, they were like, you know what?

why don't we do a director's cut as part of the process rather than as a response to it?

And I was like, that's really smart.

Like, that's really cool because in a lot of ways, I totally get the economics of making a PG 13 version of this insane genre movie.

Because what I'm asking, you know, from a budgetary standpoint is high for like a boutiquey space movie.

That's like, you know, a heavy metal comic, you know, that's like a,

People who love that will love it more than anything else, right?

If I can land that, they'll think it's the coolest thing ever.

But like for a mass audience, it might not be exactly what you would imagine.