The actor who played Darkseid in the director's scenes confirms his role and makes sense of Snyder's explanations of the Knightmare vision.
After the upcoming release of Zack Snyder's Justice League in 2021 was recently confirmed via HBO Max, the long-awaited version of the Justice League movie that its original director couldn't finish and which later premiered under the direction of Joss Whedon, is now has confirmed the presence of Darkseid, one of the most charismatic villains in DC Comics, in the Snyder Cut at the hands of his actor, Ray Porter, who has already been able to announce it after expiring his confidentiality contract with Warner Bros.
Explanation of the Knightmare vision of Batman
And it is that after the announcement of the premiere of the Snyder Cut, The Hollywood Reporter was already advancing the presence of such a powerful villain in the Snyder cut. Now, the actor himself confirms his work in the film, hinting that he will have a presence in the new version of the film, as Snyder intended from the beginning.
Those who have seen the movie released in theaters will remember that Steppenwolf was finally the main villain of it, although Snyder had Darkseid in mind as the quintessential antagonist figure that would develop the DC Extended Universe, a character who would assassinate Lois Lane and give rise to the famous Batman v Superman nightmare sequence.
According to Snyder, the “idea in this movie was for the entire Knightmare sequence to be explained to end in the distant future in which Darkseid has taken over Earth and in which Superman has succumbed to the Equation of Anti-Life. There were some members of the Justice League who survived that world and who were fighting, Batman and the shattered half of Cyborg; They were working on an equation to jump back in time to warn Bruce. "
"As Lois was apparently not in the movie, there is the line where Bruce says, 'I was right here and Barry Allen came up and said,' Lois Lane is the key. ' Then Wonder Woman says, 'She is everything to Superman,' and he replies, 'I think it's something else, something darker.' What this means is that, the 'darkest' thing is related to that, if Lois died, Superman would succumb to the Antivida. And Superman knew that somehow it was Bruce's responsibility to protect Lois; she would have gotten mad at him in this movie, and that's why he says, 'She was my world, and you took it from me,' ”the director concludes.
Will we see more of this alternate story in the Zack Snyder's Justice League? We will have to wait until 2021 to know the answer.
