Natse said:
I heard the reshoots are gonna be pretty extensive, like Suicide Squad intensive.
Heatforce said:
Whedon is getting a co-director credit though.
FAKE. NEWS.
They literally got them over with in less than 2 weeks. Also, every single movie has reshoots, even MCU movies like Spider-Man Homecoming, Thor Ragnarok, Age of Ultron, etc.
Secondly, the only reason Joss Whedon joined was to shoot some scenes there were left to be finished because Zack Snyder's daughter comitted suicide and he couldn't keep going. Whedon said in interviews that he's not changing the script or adding new material, and he said that he made sure to keep the scenes he shot in Zack's visual style, out of respect.
It's still Snyder's movie.
Just like the whole "Ben Afleck is stopping being Batman" are fake news, debunked by Affleck himself at Comic-Con. People just love to tear DC down, literally anything that happens in the DCEU is twisted into a negative narrative.
Just out of the top of my head:
- "BvS needs to make 1 billion dollars to break even"
- "Suicide Squad didn't make money"
- "Affleck will not be Batman anymore"
- "Flash lost a director, is the whole DCEU in trouble?"
All of the above are absurd nonsense that either were stated or are still being stated.
Has anyone of you ever heard of a "Marketing Budget" before BvS? The movie had a 250 million dollar budget, but to set the movie for failure, the websites started bringing up Marketing costs (About 200 million too), and said that the movie needed to make double both to break even.
I actually applied the similar standards to all MCU movies (Budget + Marketing x 2) and none of the movies that made less than a billion dollars would count as commercial successes.
And the whole "Flash Movie Director" drama is greatly overexaggerated. I never saw nearly as much fuss over Ant-Man, which had a 10 year troubled development period, or Patty Jenkins leaving as the director of Thor 2 (She later went to make Wonder Woman, imagine a Thor movie in the same tone and style).
People really exaggerate anything that happens with the DC Movies. I distinctly remember seeing on twitter a comparison between two headlines of a website, one for Doctor Strange and another for Wonder Woman, the first saying that the movie was having a terrific opening weekend, while the other was saying that it was "Underperforming", despite Wondie making over 100 million dollars more on a budget about 100 million dollars cheaper.
tl;dr, don't believe half of the rumors you hear related to DC.