Ray Fisher is super excited about the planned HBO Max release of Zack Snyder's Justice League, and that surely boils down to so many of his scenes ending up on the cutting room floor in the theatrical release of the movie.
In Joss Whedon's cut, Cyborg felt like an afterthought, and wasn't the "heart of the movie" Snyder once described. Talking to The Nice Cast, Fisher explained that in the version of the film we'll see next year, the cybernetically enhanced superhero has a much larger, vastly more satisfying story arc.
"Cyborg in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, he's not a happy camper by any stretch, but I don't think anybody would be if you had just lost everything that you've known about yourself," the actor says. "Your body, you've lost your mother, you've lost your ability to play football, one of the defining things that you've established for yourself. You've lost a sense of yourself, and it's about finding that again, finding that humanity again."
Fisher would credit both Snyder and screenwriter Chris Terrio for giving Cyborg an arc which touched on much deeper themes that were absent from Whedon's film. "There's a ton of allegory with respect to that in being a Black man, and just the journey that Black people have taken in this country."
"It can go as deep as you will allow it to, and I thank my stars that I was in the capable hands of Chris and Zack to be like, 'Listen, how far are we going to take this? This can hit some hearts, man. It can really hit some hearts.'"
Fisher added that announcing the release of the film, "may be the turn around for 2020. People need something to look forward to and hope for."
A premiere date for Zack Snyder's Justice League hasn't been announced, but it has been confirmed for a 2021 debut on HBO Max. Producer Deborah Synder, meanwhile, has confirmed that work is able to take place on the film because VFX houses are in desperate need of business right now.
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