In the wake ofZack Snyder’s Justice Leaguefinally dropping on HBO Max, the director behind the newly-released film is still discussing what could have been if he had been permitted to keep everything in his ultimate version of the Warner Bros. superhero epic. At Justice Con 2021 this weekend,Zack Snyderspoke withThe Nerd QueensandWonder Megina live-streamed panelabout his four-hour cut ofJustice Leagueand the characters we didn’t get to see, revealing that actorWayne T. Carrhad been cast as the John Stewart version of Green Lantern.
Although the Snyder Cut did offer audiences a brief look at a group shot of the Green Lanterns, according to Snyder, John Stewart was a character whose introduction had been planned for the end of the movie — an introduction that the studio then asked the director to cut out after he had shot the scene with Carr. “I said, ‘Look, there’s a chance that this doesn’t make it in the movie,” Snyder shared, also revealing that he had first met Carr throughRay Fisher, who plays Cyborg in the film. “I’m not 100% sure he thought it was real, legit.”
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In a separate interview withthe ReelBlend podcast, Snyder also expanded on the anecdote around why this particular Green Lantern cameo didn’t make the final cut of the movie:
“We did have a Green Lantern scene in the movie that the studio asked me to take out that I did also shoot here in the driveway with an amazing actor who was going to play John Stewart. Then the studio, when they saw the movie, and they saw that I had done every single thing that they had asked me not to do, we had come to a bit of a loggerhead.”
Per Snyder, the John Stewart reveal was a moment that eventually became the scene involvingHarry Lennixas Martian Manhunter. As part of a compromise with Warner Bros., the character’s presence in the film was increased more significantly, and Snyder was also able to shootthe Batman vs. Joker scenethat officially introducedJared Letointo the longer cut of the 2017 movie.
Zack Snyder’s Justice Leagueis currently available to stream on HBO Max. Check out the full panel from Justice Con below, where the director expands on the Green Lantern scenes that were ultimately cut:
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