You might not have expected the biggest movie of the year to include a reference to Zack Snyder’s Justice League, but Barbie did exactly that. After the Barbies wake up from the patriarchy brought to Barbie-land, one says, “It’s like I’ve been in a dream where I was really invested in the Zack Snyder Cut of Justice League.“
While speaking with Men’s Health, Zack Snyder said that Warner Bros. co-CEO Michael DeLuca gave Snyder’s wife and producing partner, Deborah Snyder, a heads-up that Barbie would include a joke about the Snyder-Cut. “They gave us a heads-up,” Snyder said. “And he said, ‘Hey, there’s a reference to ‘Justice League’ in the movie. It’s cool and whatever, I hope you guys understand, we think it’s awesome.’” Snyder added that he thought “Barbie was great” and that the joke was “pretty good.“
Zack Snyder was also left a little overwhelmed by what the reference in Barbie meant. “The thing that I said to Debbie is—the thing that you need to take a second and think about is that your name is so seamlessly sewed together with a pop-culture phenomenon so big it can exist as a joke in a movie about Barbie,” Snyder said. “That’s pretty insane. You just need to step back for a second and go like, ‘Whoa, what did we do? What happened? How is that a thing?’“
Snyder’s next film will be Rebel Moon. Here’s the official logline for the Netflix movie: “When a peaceful colony on the edge of a galaxy finds itself threatened by the armies of a tyrannical ruling force, Kora (Sofia Boutella), a mysterious stranger living among the villagers, becomes their best hope for survival. Tasked with finding trained fighters who will unite with her in making an impossible stand against the Mother World, Kora assembles a small band of warriors — outsiders, insurgents, peasants and orphans of war from different worlds who share a common need for redemption and revenge. As the shadow of an entire Realm bears down on the unlikeliest of moons, a battle over the fate of a galaxy is waged, and in the process, a new army of heroes is formed.“
Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire will be released on Netflix on December 22nd, followed by Rebel Moon: Part Two – The Scargiver on April 19, 2024.