Justice League fan edit adds Green Lantern John Stewart to the Snyder Cut. 2021 finally saw the long-awaited release of director Zack Snyder’s version of the DCEU team-up film Justice League.
The Snyder Cut of course featured many big changes over the theatrical cut of Justice League that was released in 2017. Among the biggest additions was an entire epilogue sequence featuring, among other things, Bruce Wayne meeting the character Martian Manhunter. But even with everything the Snyder Cut added, the film still didn’t match Snyder’s original vision for Justice League. Among the big things left out of the Snyder Cut was an appearance by Green Lantern John Stewart, played by actor Wayne T. Carr. As it happened, Stewart was supposed to meet Wayne in the movie’s epilogue, but DC nixed the idea as they have different plans for Green Lantern.
Now however there’s a new fan edit that restores the Martian Manhunter meeting Bruce Wayne scene to something like what Snyder originally intended. YouTube channel Movila released the restored version of the scene, in which a pair of Green Lanterns show up at Wayne’s lakeside retreat and have basically the same conversation with him that he has with Martian Manhunter in the movie. See the clip in the space below:
Carr’s John Stewart being cut from the Snyder Cut of Justice League was obviously a big disappointment for Green Lantern fans who are hoping to see that particular comic book property come back to the DCEU. Obviously, the one big stab at a Green Lantern movie turned out to be a major disaster that has been disavowed by everyone from star Ryan Reynolds to director Martin Campbell. Unfortunately fans will never know exactly what Snyder would have done with John Stewart and the Green Lantern Corps in the Justice League sequels he had planned. Surely the Green Lanterns would have played a major role in the battle against Darkseid, and indeed the newly remade scene sets that up by having John Stewart mention the DC bad guy by name.
Even in this fan-made form the Green Lantern meeting with Bruce Wayne has a certain excitement to it as it represents a pair of important DC characters sharing the screen for the first time. The scene is certainly more interesting than the one featured in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, where Martian Manhunter just randomly shows up for this seemingly pointless conversation with Wayne. The new scene indeed gives a better feel for what Snyder may have had in store for fans had he been allowed to continue on with his vision of multiple Justice League films. Unfortunately such fan-made clips are all that will ever exist of the restored SnyderVerse as it was meant to be, as both Snyder and DC appear to have moved on from each other.
