50 Fun Facts About Justice League Movie

Who finished Justice League after its director left in 2017, sharing the writing credit?

The Avengers director rewrote about 80 pages and reshot much of the film, but received no directing credit.

Who plays Batman in Justice League?

Armie Hammer had been cast as Batman in the cancelled 2007 version.

Who plays Aquaman?

He was cast in June 2014 and cameoed in Batman v Superman before this film.

Who plays Barry Allen / the Flash?

Grant Gustin plays the TV Flash; Adam Brody had been Barry Allen in the cancelled Justice League: Mortal.

Who plays Cyborg?

He later accused Whedon of 'gross, abusive' behaviour on set, sparking wider scrutiny of the director.

Steppenwolf is a military officer from which planet?

Ciarán Hinds played him via motion capture and got tips from Liam Neeson, who had just done A Monster Calls.

What are Steppenwolf's flying foot soldiers called?

In the theatrical cut they turn on him at the end when they smell his fear.

How many Mother Boxes are hidden on Earth?

They were entrusted to the Amazons, the Atlanteans and humanity after the first invasion.

What does Steppenwolf call the combined form of the Mother Boxes?

It would terraform Earth into a copy of Steppenwolf's homeworld.

From which location does Steppenwolf take the first Mother Box?

Queen Hippolyta warns Diana afterwards, which sets the recruitment drive in motion.

Whose father used a Mother Box to rebuild his body after a near-fatal accident?

Joe Morton plays Silas Stone, head of S.T.A.R. Labs.

Where is Clark Kent's body placed to resurrect him?

He comes back without his memories and attacks the team.

What is Batman's contingency plan for a rampaging, amnesiac Superman?

She takes him home to Smallville, where his memories return.

In which country is Steppenwolf's lair for the final battle?

The Snyder Cut names the abandoned city as Pozharnov.

Which two villains meet in the post-credits scene of the theatrical cut?

Jesse Eisenberg and Joe Manganiello appear uncredited; Luthor has escaped Arkham Asylum.

Which director was hired to make the cancelled 2007 project Justice League: Mortal?

Jason Reitman had turned it down first; the writers' strike and a denied Australian tax rebate helped kill it.

Which actress was cast as Wonder Woman in Justice League: Mortal?

Jessica Biel reportedly turned the part down; Teresa Palmer was cast as Talia al Ghul with a Russian accent.

Which Jack Kirby comic series did Snyder say inspired the film?

Steppenwolf, Darkseid and the Mother Boxes all come from Kirby's Fourth World.

Where did principal photography mainly take place from April 2016?

Other filming happened around London, Scotland, Chicago, Los Angeles and Djúpavík in Iceland.

Why did Zack Snyder step down from Justice League in May 2017?

The Snyder Cut is dedicated to Autumn Snyder, and fans of the campaign raised over $500,000 for suicide prevention.

Roughly how much did Warner Bros. spend on the reshoots, taking the budget to about $300M?

Typical additional photography costs $6-10 million; the two months of reshoots ran in London and Los Angeles.

Henry Cavill's moustache had to be digitally removed because of his contract on which film?

Paramount refused to let him shave, so the reshoot footage was altered instead.

What running-time limit did Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara impose on the theatrical cut?

The final cut runs exactly two hours; the Snyder Cut runs about four.

Per Fabian Wagner, roughly how much of his Snyder footage made the theatrical cut?

Producer Charles Roven claimed 80-85% of the film was Snyder's; Whedon's rewrites ran to about 80 pages.

Which screenwriter called the theatrical cut 'an act of vandalism' and tried to remove his name from it?

He also wrote Batman v Superman and Argo.

Who replaced Junkie XL as composer of the theatrical Justice League?

He reused his own 1989 Batman theme.

Which Leonard Cohen song is covered by Sigrid on the Justice League soundtrack?

Hallelujah turns up instead in the Snyder Cut, where Allison Crowe's cover closes the film in tribute to Autumn Snyder.

Whose 'Superman March' is heard when the resurrected Superman fights the League?

It returns for the climax when Superman arrives to beat Steppenwolf; Superman himself was hidden from all early marketing.

Roughly how much did Justice League gross worldwide?

Against a break-even estimated at $750 million, Deadline reckoned it lost about $60 million.

Justice League's $93.8M debut made it the first DCEU film to open below what figure domestically?

That was down 45% on Batman v Superman's $166 million opening.

Which animated film beat Justice League to number one in its second weekend?

Pixar's film kept it in second place for a third weekend too.

Which country was Justice League's biggest market outside North America?

It took $106 million there; Brazil's $14.2 million opening was the biggest in that country's history.

Which earlier film's director swap inspired comparisons that fuelled the Snyder Cut campaign?

Richard Donner finally got to complete his cut of Superman II in 2006.

On which service was Zack Snyder's Justice League released in March 2021?

It was the platform's fourth-most-streamed film of the year, and was accidentally shown early to some people trying to watch Tom and Jerry.

About how much did it cost to complete the Snyder Cut's effects, score and editing?

New material was shot in October 2020 with two of the League's actors; the Flash's scene was directed over Zoom.

Who plays Darkseid in Zack Snyder's Justice League, the character's first live-action appearance?

He did not know the character when cast and worked out the voice with Snyder and Terrio; Peter Guinness voices DeSaad.

What secret power does Darkseid want to harvest from Earth in the Snyder Cut?

It can control all sentient free will in the multiverse; the Unity would let him take it unchallenged.

Which character is Calvin Swanwick revealed to be in the Snyder Cut?

Snyder said Harry Lennix's character had secretly been the Martian since Man of Steel.

Which actor's Joker appears in the Snyder Cut's Knightmare epilogue?

The Joker was not in Snyder's original plan; the scene was among the new material shot in 2020.

Which Green Lantern was filmed for the Snyder Cut's final scene before Warner Bros. rejected it?

Wayne T. Carr played him; Snyder compromised and used the Martian instead.

Whom did Snyder pitch to star in a China-set spin-off after casting him as a S.T.A.R. Labs scientist?

Zheng Kai's character ends the film promoted to Director of Nanotechnology.

Tom Holkenborg's near-four-hour Snyder Cut score beat which film for the longest score in history?

Junkie XL had scored the theatrical film before being replaced, then started from scratch with 54 tracks.

What rating did Zack Snyder's Justice League receive, unlike the PG-13 theatrical cut?

The MPA cited 'violence and some language'.

What is the black-and-white version of the Snyder Cut called?

It got three IMAX screenings in July 2022 with a ten-minute intermission, and proceeds went to suicide prevention.

Which Snyder Cut scene won the Oscars 'Cheer Moment' fan vote in 2022?

Barry uses the Speed Force to reverse time so Cyborg can stop the Unity.

What Rotten Tomatoes score did the Snyder Cut earn, against 39% for the theatrical film?

Its Metacritic 54 also beat the theatrical cut's 45, though critics knocked the length.

Which two Green Lanterns visited Batman in a filmed but dropped extra post-credits scene?

The scene was meant to tease Green Lantern Corps; Willem Dafoe's Vulko and Kiersey Clemons's Iris West were also cut.

Zeus in the ancient-invasion flashback is played by Sergi Constance, who has what day job?

Stuntman Nick McKinless played Ares and MMA fighter Aurore Lauzeral played Artemis, all held to a strict physique standard.

Additional filming took place at Djúpavík, a remote village in which country?

It sits in the Westfjords; the bulk of the shoot was at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, with days in Chicago and Los Angeles.

Which husband-and-wife duo wrote the 2007 Justice League script that became Justice League: Mortal?

Their draft was submitted in June 2007, around the time Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman film was cancelled.