I came into it thinking the only way that this could work is as a fever dream or as a revenge tragedy. Now that Snyder and Terrio’s preferred versions of the films are available to the public, the screenwriter is finally opening up about how it all went wrong in the first place. He said he bottled up his feelings about the theatrical cuts to avoid hurting their casts and crews. Especially galling to him was the sidelining of Ray Fisher’s tragic hero, Cyborg, whose arc the actor himself had helped craft.įisher has been outspoken for months about his experience making Justice League, following years of silence. He was very wrong.Īfter watching Joss Whedon’s version of that film, Terrio was so disgusted that he explored taking his name off the movie. Terrio hoped Justice League would be a better experience.
“And I would agree with them.”Įven the title of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was a disaster, he said, that primed audiences to roll their eyes at the film well before its release.
Critics would say, ‘what a lazy screenplay,’ because the characters don’t have motivations and it’s not coherent,” Terrio said. “If you took 30 minutes out of Argo, as they were from Batman/Superman, it would make zero sense at all. In an exclusive, wide-ranging interview, the screenwriter said the #SnyderCut of Justice League, recently released as a four-hour-plus event on HBO Max, righted a kind of cinematic wrong perpetrated by studio leadership that has now almost entirely moved on from Warner Bros. Terrio believes that Zack Snyder’s director’s cuts of both are much stronger, if still imperfect movies-an overall vindication of their work together. released to theaters in 20 as incoherent misfires, undermined by corporate meddling, poor franchise planning, and tone-deaf decisions that prioritized costly VFX sequences over coherent storytelling. Worst of all, he agreed with many of their complaints. For five years the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Argo kept his mouth shut about his work on the DC films Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, even as scorn from critics and fans exacerbated already-painful behind-the-scenes memories.
Chris Terrio is not pulling his punches anymore.
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