Henry Cavill has cast doubt on a Zack Snyder cut of Justice League ever seeing the light of day. Many DC fans have been hoping for a Snyder cut after being disappointed by the final product that hit cinemas in November, 2017.

The film was meant to rival the Avengers franchise, but even with Avengers: Assemble and Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon taking over from Snyder – who left because of a tragic family matter – it was still heavily criticised and now holds the title of the lowest grossing movie in the DC extended universe.

Ever since, there’s been an unending number of think-pieces about why Warner Bros. should release the original director’s version (if there actually is one), though Superman actor Henry Cavill doesn’t think it “will make any difference.”

“I don’t know if [a Snyder cut] actually exists so the only way I can look at it is as a business model, and I don’t know what difference it’s going to make,” the actor told Yahoo Movies UK during the press tour for Mission: Impossible – Fallout. “There are stories to be told, which need to be told and adjustments that can be made, but that’s not going to make any difference.

“I think it might be entertaining, for sure, and go, ‘Oh look, now I’ve scratched that itch,’ but it’s not going to change anything that I can think of, it’s not going to make huge amounts of money all of a sudden for a studio.

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“They’re not going to release it into cinemas and so they’re not going to suddenly make an extra few hundred million,” Cavill added. “So it would be interesting to see what the difference is, but I’d rather focus on the future rather than what’s been.”

The British actor has been teasing the future of Superman for a while now, whose next outing is expected in Man of Steel 2. So far, there’s been no definitive plot given but Cavill told Yahoo Movies UK that he wouldn’t mind them looking to Brian Azzarello’s For Tomorrow title for inspiration.

“There’s a lot of weight to it,” he explained. “I don’t know if it’s the exact one I’d make a movie out of but I’d definitely take tones from it. You really get an insight into Superman’s mind. He talks to a priest a lot and you see him trying to save the world in literally the most magnificent of ways.

“He’s doing his utmost to save humanity and create a perfect place for everyone to live but then realises that he can’t, but it’s beautiful that he tried. He’s so naive in some aspects of it but he’s using all the power that he possibly can to create a utopia and within all this stuff is a lot of darkness, a lot of sadness in him.”

The 2004-2005 comic book arc deals with a lot of the guilt Superman feels for not saving the million people who vanished from Earth a year earlier, including Lois Lane, as well as his mission to get them back, which raises a lot of questions about human nature.

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