|
|
Post by Skaathar on Mar 19, 2021 18:57:11 GMT
The movie wasn’t finished when Snyder left. They spent $70 million to finish the movie and redesign Steppenwolf, among other things, but in terms of additional photography, everything other than the Knightmare scene and the scenes with Harry Lennix as Martian Manhunter were from 2016. They claim Whedon cut 90% of Snyder's stuff and reshot it, which if you take the 5 hour cut thing as gospel means Whedon only used about 30 minutes of Zack's footage, so he filmed 90 minutes of new footage, completely lightened up and redesigned certain CGI scenes and supposedly if Skaathar is even ballpark correct for only $20-30m more than what Snyder used to finish the same special effects as and film 1 or 2 additional scenes...that just does not sound right, Whedon cost about $90-100m to reshoot an entire movie from the ground up and do/redo all the effects from scratch compared to Snyder just needing to finish up the effects on a movie he was less than 6 months away from releasing to the public? Just sounds like PR spin and bullshit to me. I'm having a hard time finding the actual numbers but if I recall correctly, Snyder's original budget for JL was around $250 million. Whedon's additional scenes and reshoots pushed the budget to $300 million. Assuming it's true that majority of Snyder's scenes were already shot but 90% of those scenes weren't included in the final movie, then we're basically saying Whedon was able to create 90% of a block buster with just a $50 million budget. Even if we say there was some left over money from the original budget, it couldn't have been that much seeing as Snyder was supposedly close to finishing the movie when he left. So even if we make that $100 million that Whedon was allowed to work with... he still supposedly made almost an entire movie out of that budget. In comparison, Snyder was given a $70 million budget which he apparently used to shoot only one scene and add final VFX shots? The math doesn't compute.
|
|
