Trivia / Justice League 2

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• Creator Backlash: Zack Snyder admitted in a later interview that his original rough draft idea where Batman and Lois had an affair and their resulting child would be adopted and raised by Superman wasn't his best thought-out plan and he could understand why it would've made the fans angry.
• Executive Veto: Though the two sequels were never formally greenlit, Warner Brothers was initially on-board with many of the ideas of this pitch, with one exception — they refused to allow Lois' child to be the result of an affair with Batman. The child was subsequently changed to be Superman's in later revisions.
• Refitted for Sequel: A cross-franchise example — Chris Terrio ultimately borrowed the unused concept of an army partially made of ordinary citizens, led by a prominent leader figure tied to the franchise, against a tyrannical embodiment of darkness, for the climax of The Rise of Skywalker. That being said, there was some precedent from one of the previous scripts for Colin Trevorrow's version of Star Wars Episode IX that had been written before he signed on.
• Torch the Franchise and Run: The end goal of this story was to end this version of the DC Universe in the same way that The Dark Knight Rises ended that trilogy. Most of the major villains are dead, along with Bruce Wayne and Hippolyta, the world is basically a Utopia, and all the major character arcs are definitively wrapped up. Zack Snyder was also a proponent of there being an adaptation of Flashpoint afterward, which would've effectively reversed the ending and reset the DC Universe. It is likely that this is one of several reasons why Warner Brothers, who wanted a ongoing shared universe, ultimately chose not to go forward with this story.
• What Could Have Been: A fanmade motion-comic adaptation of the original draft was in development at one point in late 2021, complete with voice acting from some of the talent from the DCEU, including Darkseid actor Ray Porter. It was subsequently canned when the animators were caught plagiarizing art from official DC Comics illustrators, which was all the more blatant due to the fact that the characters illustrated did not resemble the likenesses of the actors playing them. In 2022, however, a two-part adaptation of the Dreamscape storyboards was developed and released under the name of Project Justice League.
• Word of God: Most of the information that we have about the revised draft of these proposed movies — which is what would get made if the films were ever made — comes from Zack Snyder and his associates.

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