Decide a Zack Snyder film at random and also you’re prone to discover legions of the director’s followers claiming that the theatrical minimize doesn’t signify the movie‘s true brilliance. From his prolonged tackle “Watchmen” to the endlessly mentioned “Snyder Minimize” of “Justice League” that Warner Bros. allowed him to finish after years of on-line fan stress, the director is arguably extra beloved for his director’s cuts than the films that really play in theaters.
However whereas Snyder’s passionate fan base has afforded him the liberty to launch his most popular variations of most of his movies at this level, there’s nonetheless one which he’d like one other crack at. In a brand new interview with Empire, Snyder defined that he nonetheless isn’t glad with how his critically maligned 2011 blockbuster “Sucker Punch” turned out and hopes to launch one other model sometime.
“The one film I’d change is ‘Sucker Punch,’ as a result of it by no means actually bought completed appropriately,” Snyder stated. “Even the director’s minimize will not be actually the right minimize. It’s actually simply an prolonged model. If I had the possibility, I’d repair that film.”
The movie — which stars Emily Browning as an asylum affected person who’s scheduled to be lobotomized however escapes into an alternate actuality by which her fellow sufferers are intercourse slaves making an attempt to flee a world of monsters — was dismissed by many as poorly crafted at finest and misogynistic at worst. However Snyder defined that he believes the movie might be salvaged with out capturing any further footage.
Sadly, the director defined that authorized points over the movie’s rights have prevented him from transforming it. That stated, he’s nonetheless holding out hope that he’ll have one other alternative to re-cut it into one thing that higher fits his imaginative and prescient.
“I’ve the footage already shot: they simply must let me put it collectively,” he stated. “We ask once in a while. We now have to ask once more. I believe there needs to be a window when no-one’s bought the film.”