Oscar-winning writer Chris Terrio was working Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker when he saw, for the first and only time, a film attributed to him: 2017 Justice League, directed by Joss Whedon. “I went to the studio and sat down and watched it a couple of weeks before the release,” Terrio said. “I immediately called my lawyer and said, ‘I want to get my name out of the movie.'”
The lawyer contacted Warner, but the request was not granted because the film was already closed and was being prepared for distribution. At the time, Terrio was not invited to the premiere and decided that until now he would not speak about the film publicly. Vanity Fair.
Terrio, for whom he won an Oscar Argo, and who he not only wrote Justice League But Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice also – he talked about the experience of writing these films with Vanity Fair. In the interview, he explains in detail how Warner Bros. cut 30 minutes from his movie “Batman / Superman” (explains that he did not reach the title) Alba de Justicand, in fact, I’m not sure who did it), which ruined any nuance I was looking for the characters and perhaps condemned him critically. This situation then fell to Justice League, where he did his best to write a script more in line with what the executives wanted. All this, however, when it collapsed Zack Snyder left production and entered Joss Whedon.
“I didn’t realize how much of the film was being changed or vandalized, in my opinion,” Terrio said. “I was clear when I spoke to various actors that it was a wholesale dismantling of what had happened before. I didn’t hear from anyone who said it was a pleasant experience. “
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Diu Terrio Justice League of Zack Snyder, which was recently released on HBO Max, is an excellent representation of the film that he and Snyder set out to make. There’s nothing wrong with saying about Snyder, but he does admit it even when Snyder was on board, the film was not a walk in the park.
“He Wonderful woman the script wasn’t even finished when I wrote it Justice League ” Terrio said. “So I had no other basis for writing Wonder Woman than Batman / Superman. Themyscira did not even exist. They never showed me anything on the page. I didn’t know if people could talk underwater. I had to wonder this, because I didn’t know if I could do underwater scenes with Aquaman and Atlanteans. Everything was from scratch because there had been none [solo] character films “.
He continued, “So Justice League necessary to establish three of the characters; he had to create a long game mythology for the DC Universe. He had to resurrect Superman because he was dead at the end of the last movie. I just don’t know how all this could be done in less than two hours. Maybe the 2017 release proved that you couldn’t. ”All of this doesn’t even go into their experience. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, including the study warrants that mark the people of Batman with a bat symbol, and an original ending where Batman did exactly that Lex Luthor, which Terrio fought.
“That ending was a point on which I explicitly went to the mat with the studio over and over again,” he said. “I argued that Batman can’t finish the movie by continuing this behavior, which was torture, because then the movie was supporting what he did.”
Just say what fans see on the screen Snyder’s films are only half the story. The other half took place in the executive board rooms. Towards Vanity Fair to read more of the enlightening interview.
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