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Director Zack Snyder signed a first-look deal with Netflix that some speculate ends future work with DC Films.
In other words, the Snyderverse is dead.
Zack Snyder shut and locked the Fortress of Solitude doors.
Henry Cavill walks away from Superman.
Batman hangs up his cape.
Not so fast.
Nearly every major site doesn’t stitch this news with Snyderverse gloom.
In fact, The Hollywood Reporter, which scooped it, mentioned nothing about the Snyderverse’s end with this.
Well, that’s because there’s nothing in their piece that cuts off its head.
The similarity to how some in the media reacted to Spider-Gate in August 2019 is amusing.
So many people assumed Sony would pull Spider-Man from the MCU.
I said they wouldn’t and didn’t.
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In this case, the information presented in the reporting doesn’t match the hysteria.
First, Zack Snyder’s agreement with Netflix only lasts two years.
Obviously, the current Hamada burger regime refuses to proceed with the Snyderverse.
As I leaked on June 16:
The Snyderverse could be restored by mid-2022, shortly after the WarnerMedia-Discovery merger is finalized.
There will be chairs tossed overboard when Discovery CEO David Zaslav takes over the organization.
This isn’t wishful thinking; it’s the reality of a large merger.
Zaslav has no personal bias against Zack Snyder.
It would still take two years for Zaslav to deal with Snyder anyway.
Zaslav has to move all his furniture in, focus on immediate priorities for the transition.
It won’t happen overnight when the restructuring starts halfway through 2022.
Zack Snyder’s Netflix Deal Doesn’t Kill Future DC Work
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Secondly, the first-look deal is for Zack Snyder’s original content such as Army of the Dead.
Furthermore, The Hollywood Reporter clearly explains that Zack Snyder’s The Stone Quarry Productions “has not abandoned working with established intellectual property, especially in the comics field, from which Snyder has had some of his biggest successes.”
In addition, some misunderstood the “Exclusive” tag in the headline.
The article itself is the “Exclusive”; it doesn’t claim Zack Snyder could only work for Netflix in the next two years.
The “first look” is for his own IPs.
Zack Snyder adopted a star athlete’s business move with this short-term Netflix arrangement.
He signed with Netflix two years; once it expires, he’ll enter the negotiation table with Zaslav with a higher price tag.
Stay for two years, win the World Series or Super Bowl, and become the hottest free agent in town.
Impressive.
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