Zack Snyder has revealed which of the films in his back catalogue is the only one that he still wishes he could make changes to.
The director is known for revisiting his movies and creating extended director’s cuts of them, perhaps most notably in the case of the 2021 ‘Snyder Cut’ of his 2017 DC film Justice League.
But in a new interview with Empire, Snyder has admitted that there is a different film that he remains somewhat unsatisfied with.
“The only movie I would change is Sucker Punch, because it never really got finished correctly,” he said. “Even the director’s cut is not really the correct cut. It’s really just an extended version. If I had the chance, I would fix that movie.”
Sucker Punch stars Emily Browning as a young woman who is committed to a mental institution, and who enters a series of fantasy worlds where she and her fellow inmates are mythical warriors.
Snyder went on to explain that legal issues over the rights to the film have prevented him from being able to make his desired changes.
“I have the footage already shot: they just have to let me put it together,” he said. “We ask every now and then. We have to ask again. I think there has to be a window when no-one’s got the movie.”
Last year, Snyder spoke about his desire to work on a director’s cut of the film, adding that the original ending was changed as Warner Bros. thought it was “too weird”.
More recently, Snyder has hit back at the negative reviews for his 2023 Netflix sci-fi epic Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, saying he’s perplexed by the hostile reaction.
With Part Two now out, the writer-director said: “I don’t really have a rebuttal to the reviews. For whatever reason, the reaction to my movies is very polarising, and it always has been. The movie, it doesn’t seem like there’s that much in it that would warrant such visceral responses.”
The films star Sofia Boutella as a former soldier who recruits warriors from neighbouring planets to fight back against the evil Imperium when her farming colony is threatened.
While Snyder didn’t let the negative reviews get to him, Boutella has admitted that she deeply affected by them.
“I always thought that I was fully armed to take on those punches, and then I read the critics that came down on Rebel Moon and it really affected me,” she said. “I’m just gonna be honest about it. I feel like I’m carrying it for everybody that cared so much about this project, and that’s what affected me. Not the way I look. If anything, I’ve been pretty lucky and people like my work in it, but the movie was criticised.”
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