You might remember that when Warner Bros. first announced Justice League back in 2014, the film was supposed to be released in two parts, both directed by Zack Snyder. Well, we all know what happened next, but Zack Snyder will finally be unleashing his original version of Justice League in just a couple of weeks on HBO Max, but you should prepare yourselves for an ending that will amost certainly leave you wanting more.
While speaking during IGN Fan Fest, Zack Snyder said that although his version of Justice League will be clocking in at four hours, it's still setting up a sequel that doesn't, and likely never will, exist.
Well, it was meant to be two more movies. It hints, as you would, at a potential other world. I'd plant the seeds as I had wanted to of what would come in the later films. That's in there, but as far as those stories that would be to come — if ever that happened, which it does not look like it would — but I think it's easy to speculate based on that and we can talk about that for quite a while. It is a cliffhanger … The movie ends in a massive cliffhanger, yeah.
Zack Snyder teased that Justice League 2 would have been set in the post-apocalyptic world Bruce Wayne had a premonition of in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (and we'll see again in Justice League) and that Darkseid would have been the "sequel bad guy." That said, Snyder teased that Darkseid "definitely is in full effect [in the Snyder Cut]. He's running the show. He's there. I don't want to, again, spoil it but, yeah, he's definitely there."
The official synopsis for Zack Snyder's Justice League:
In ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE, determined to ensure Superman’s (Henry Cavill) ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) aligns forces with Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions. The task proves more difficult than Bruce imagined, as each of the recruits must face the demons of their own pasts to transcend that which has held them back, allowing them to come together, finally forming an unprecedented league of heroes. Now united, Batman (Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gadot), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), Cyborg (Ray Fisher) and The Flash (Ezra Miller) may be too late to save the planet from Steppenwolf, DeSaad and Darkseid and their dreadful intentions.
Zack Snyder's Justice League will debut on HBO Max on March 18th.