More horrible news. The Hollywood Reporter has stated that Zack Snyder has abandoned the 'Justice League' to deal with a family tragedy. His 20-year-old daughter, Autumn, committed suicide in March, and then the production of the sequel to 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' stopped for two weeks. The director returned to work after that break, but has decided that his family needs him. Both he and producer Deborah Snyder, his wife, get off the post-production process and the additional recordings that are planned.
Warner Bros contemplated the idea of delaying the film's release to allow Zack Snyder to complete his work later, but the director has passed the baton to Joss Whedon, the director of 'The Avengers', who now prepares 'Batgirl' for DC. The film will premiere as scheduled in November this year, and Whedon will write additional material, tape it, and oversee the post-production process.
Warner Bros. president Toby Emmerich has explained that Whedon's direction is going to be "minimal and has to adhere to the style, tone and template that Zack has set." There will be no "new characters, just the same characters in some new scenes."
The tragedy of Autumn
Zack Snyder believed it would be "cathartic" to return to work shortly after his daughter's suicide. "Bury me in the work and see if that went ahead The demands of this work are very intense. It consumes you. And in the last two months, I have realized... I have decided to stay away from the movie to be with my family, with my children, who need me, they are having a very bad time, I'm having a hard time," the director told THR.
He and Deborah have raised seven children and stepchildren, in addition to Autumn, who was the daughter of Zack and his former wife. Both have decided to leave the work aside to focus on the important thing: take care of your family at such a difficult time.
"Here's the thing, I never planned to make this public," he says. "I thought it would just be in the family, a private matter, our private sorrow that we would deal with. When it became obvious that I need to take a break, I knew there would be narratives created on the internet. They'll do what they do. The truth is... I'm past caring about that kind of thing now."
Autumn, who was going to college, had written a science fiction and fantasy novel in the first person. According to Deborah, "she loved to write, to write, to write." Her novel was starring a character who did not fit in with the others. "You're hearing her voice" when you read the manuscript, said Deborah in tears, the first person to let her daughter read the novel. His parents want the manuscript to be published at some point, and the proceeds go to charity. "In the end, she didn't make it, but her character does, and I think that would be something cathartic for people," says her father. He remembers a phrase that his daughter included in everything he wrote, a quote from Chuck Palahniuk. "We all die. The goal is not to live forever, but to create something that will."