Justice League was supposed to be a 2 part film before the rewrites due to the reception of (TC) BvS
cloudzack117. Even the "less scary" changed film Snyder ended up shooting thereafter was build with a continuation in mind but not with a crazy cliffhanger like the total 3rd act wipeout in the unfilmed(-ish) script.
What we will get soon is a bit of everything minus anything by Whedon and most to all of the studio mandates but you will have to read my past breakdowns in the DCEU OT3 to catch up. Regardless of that. We will soon have a not-quite-trilogy of cape films that is as consistent in tone and style as movies can get. Graft on (DC) Watchmen and you suddenly have this decade+ one-man vision for DC that was allowed to exist against all odds. That's how you end up with a fanbase.
TSC was supposed to only get minimal funding in November 2019 to get the about 150 minutes long May 2017 cut finished but Zack and Debbie put WB on hold for 2 months and made a killer pitch in from of the WB/DC brass to flesh out the fairly different and obviously longer 214-minute cut. Snyder was shooting 2 films at once in 2016. Kinda. One for WB and one for himself. TSC will cost 70+ million as we are getting the Snydest Cut of the 214 version. Covid further delayed the film.
You have to spend money to make money and WB is investing. So is Netflix. Even I am surprised by the amount of Snyder productions that will come out by the end of 2022 and how much control he has over those projects. He even returned to be a camera operator. Snyder is living his dream creatively. Hopefully soon on HBO Max.
The film is lastly both named Zack Snyder's Justice League and JL: Director's Cut. Both shoes fit. That´s all there is to it but ZSJL is the primary title.
