Surely, when we talk about Zack Snyder, the first thing that comes to mind for most is Superman O well The Justice League. The first for having had the good eye to turn Henry Cavill into the Man of Steel, and the second for all the commotion that was mounted around the already worn Snyder Cut.
The thing is that, in reality, the news at hand has to do in some way with the latter. From 3DGames They have put us on the track of an interview with Snyder that we can read in letterboxdwhere he openly states that he plans to do a director’s cut of Sucker Punch.
This is how he commented when referring to the original ending that he had proposed and that he finally had to modify:
I haven’t had time to do the director’s cut. I still plan to do it at some point. In the original ending, when Babydoll is in the chair in the basement with Blue (she’s already been lobotomized) and the policeman shines his flashlight on her, the stage falls apart and she stands up and sings a song on stage.
Sing “Ooh, Child, things are gonna get easier.” Blondie and all the people who’d been killed come together and the idea is that in a weird way, even though she’s been lobotomized, she’s somehow stuck in an endless loop of euphoric victory. It’s strangely non-optimistic and optimistic at the same time. That was the tone she had at the end. We tried it out and the studio thought it was too weird, so we changed it.
The voiceover was written by Richard Bach. He and I discussed it. The original version doesn’t have any voiceovers because it was supposed to be more interpretive, you know?
Despite not being his best-known film, and in general it didn’t seem to excite anyone especially (on IMDB has an average user rating of 6 out of 10, which isn’t too bad really, and a 33 out of 100 from critics, which is an absolute massacre), Sucker Punch not only is it the only original film written and directed by Snyder, but it’s an action movie that, seen today, it’s hard to believe how good it still looks after so many years (it came out in 2011).
Give it a try if you haven’t. And if you can’t now, maybe you’ll get the itch when the director’s cut comes out, we don’t know when.
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