Jay Oliva the storyboard artist for all the Zack Snyder DC Films confirmed when responding to a series of tweets from Forbes writer Mark Hughes about Warner Bros. creating a new edit of Justice League with some more Snyder footage instead of a Snyder Cut, stated that aside from some visual FX and scenes that would’ve been filmed during reshoots to link scenes in a cohesive matter, the film is complete.
He states that Zack Snyder’s a director who doesn’t wait until the end of shooting to edit the film, but has the film already planned out. A practice many directors are known for doing.
Other than incomplete vfx and maybe some reshoots for hook ups everything was shot that was storyboarded. Zack isn’t the kind of director who creates the film in the edit bay. It’s all planned out meticulously from beginning to end. That’s how MoS and BvS was done.
— Jay Oliva (@jayoliva1) June 16, 2018
He goes to answer a fans question about the planned reshoots and Henry Cavill’s quote about being surprised that he needed to return for more reshoots, adding that is the reason Henry Cavill was able to grow a mustache.
Every movie has scheduled reshoots. It’s part of the post production process. Some are more extensive than others. Some are because of technical problems with the footage and others are creative reshoots for scenes that are reimagined or need additional photography for clarity.
— Jay Oliva (@jayoliva1) June 16, 2018
He probably was referring to the sequences he was in since he wasn’t in a majority of the film and probably didn’t expect to be brought back for extensive reshoots (thus the mustache)
— Jay Oliva (@jayoliva1) June 16, 2018
Finally he states that the final fight always had Superman involved as Oliva storyboarded a lot of Superman kicking ass.
https://twitter.com/jayoliva1/status/1007791482927890432
He later stated that he hasn’t seen the cut but does know for a fact that all the storyboards he worked on with Zack Snyder were filmed and he does know a first cut got edited together.
No clue. I never saw that cut. My involvement was during principal photography. Usually a first cut is quite long and then it’s refined and edited. That’s why reshoots are needed to fix anything that was cut out so you don’t notice the footage or story point.
— Jay Oliva (@jayoliva1) June 17, 2018
With AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner’s assets fans have renewed hope that Zack Snyder will get the opportunity to finish his vision of Justice League. Zack Snyder’s working on an adaptation of The Fountainhead for Warner Bros. and is a Producer on Wonder Woman 1984, showing that the Snyder’s are still attached to Warner Bros. and DC Films despite continued belief otherwise.
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