As we learned last month, Jared Leto‘s version of the Joker from Suicide Squad will be making a return in the upcoming “Snyder Cut” of Justice League, which is currently being put together for a premiere on HBO Max in 2021. In addition to resurrecting lots of unused footage, Zack Snyder is also shooting brand new scenes, which is how Joker will be brought in.
Speaking with Grace Randolph for Beyond the Trailer, Snyder just teased a brand new look for Leto’s Joker, while also touching upon just how much new footage is being shot.
“I wanted to, of course, honor what had been created with him because I thought it was really cool, but I also felt like – well, I’m not gonna tell you what happens in the little scene – but there is… some water has gone under the proverbial bridge between last we saw Joker and this appearance,” says Snyder. “He’s a road-weary Joker, I guess that’s a way of saying it.”
Snyder continues, “I will say that [Leto] was really gracious with his entertaining my idea and I told him it was a thing that I had felt like, even when I was working on Justice League in London, I felt like was an inevitable course that the movie had to take. So when I told him it was a thing that I’d been kicking around in my head for quite a while I feel like he just kind of warmed up to this idea that it was kind of an inevitable thing that kind of has to happen. I am grateful and I am forever in debt to his kindness for doing it.”
This brand new four-hour version of Justice League will feature “4 or 5 minutes” of newly shot footage, Snyder also noted during the new interview with Beyond the Trailer. Meaning 4 or 5 minutes of footage that was shot during this latest round of additional photography, on top of all the previous footage Snyder shot for Justice League that we’ve never seen.
Watch the full 30-minute interview below.
The “Snyder Cut,” which Warner Bros. is spending tens of millions of dollars on, is said to be quite a bit different and a whole lot darker, with Darkseid notably featured in the movie.