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The Town with Matthew Belloni

Release the Snyder Article

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3847 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Matt is joined by Rolling Stone’s Tatiana Siegel to discuss her latest article, which outlines the bizarre story of online bots fueling the Zack Synder rerelease of ‘Justice League’ and the turmoil it caused within Warner Bros. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Tatiana Siegel Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody?

0:01.4

Are you tuning in to the Challenge USA on CBS?

0:04.4

Well, tune in to me, Tyson Apostle,

0:07.2

as I break down each and every episode

0:09.3

with my co-host, Amelia Weddemeier.

0:11.6

I'm also a contestant on the show,

0:13.2

which gives you all the insider scoop.

0:15.4

Amelia, how stoked are you to do this?

0:17.5

Tyson, I'm freaking excited.

0:19.0

I cannot wait to sit my butt down every single week to watch the show, then come here

0:23.6

and recap it with you on the Ringer Reality TV podcast.

0:31.9

All right, it is Wednesday, July 20th.

0:34.9

If you're a fan of superhero movies or you spent any time on Twitter a few years ago,

0:39.7

you're probably familiar with something called the Snyder cut. This was a four-hour

0:43.7

director's cut of the 2017 DC Comics movie Justice League. It came out on HBO Max in the spring of

0:50.2

2021. Yes, a four-hour version of a movie that had already come out and famously flopped when

0:57.1

it was first in theaters. How did that happen? It was something of a joke in Hollywood because Warner

1:02.1

Brothers and its parent company Warner Media had agreed to give Zach Snyder, the filmmaker,

1:07.3

tens of millions of dollars, essentially because the internet told them to.

1:12.1

There was a massive online movement, we were told. Release the Snyder cut.

1:15.5

Release the Snyder cut. Fans supposedly really wanted this. They were aggressive and some

1:20.7

say abusive towards a lot of the executives at Warner Brothers and elsewhere because they were so

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