50 Fun Facts About Justice League Movie

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

Joss Whedon oversaw months of rewrites and reshoots, yet Zack Snyder kept the sole directing credit.

Who plays Batman in Justice League?

Ben Affleck plays Batman here, while Armie Hammer had been cast in the role for a 2007 Justice League film that was cancelled before shooting.

Who plays Aquaman in Justice League?

Jason Momoa returned a year later in a solo Aquaman film that grossed more than $1 billion worldwide.

Who plays Barry Allen, the Flash, in Justice League?

Ezra Miller later shot a new scene for the Snyder Cut on another film's set while Zack Snyder directed it over Zoom.

Who plays Cyborg in Justice League?

Ray Fisher later accused the director of the reshoots of "gross, abusive" behaviour on set, which led WarnerMedia to open an investigation.

In Justice League, Steppenwolf is a military officer from which planet?

Apokolips is Steppenwolf's home world, and Ciarán Hinds played him by motion capture after asking his old friend Liam Neeson for tips.

In Justice League, what are Steppenwolf's flying foot soldiers called?

Parademons feed on fear, so in the theatrical cut they turn on Steppenwolf himself the moment he feels it.

In Justice League, which people guarded a Mother Box alongside the Amazons?

Atlanteans kept their box under the sea, so Steppenwolf's raid to seize it is what forces Aquaman into the fight.

In Justice League, what does Steppenwolf call the combined form of the Mother Boxes?

The Unity would lay waste to Earth and reshape it into a copy of Steppenwolf's home world.

In Justice League, from which location does Steppenwolf take the first Mother Box?

Themyscira falls first, which prompts Queen Hippolyta to send a warning to her daughter Diana, who then helps recruit the team.

In Justice League, whose father used a Mother Box to rebuild his body after a near-fatal accident?

Victor Stone's father Silas rebuilt him with the box, which is why Victor, as Cyborg, can link to the Mother Boxes and help pull them apart at the end.

In Justice League, where is Clark Kent's body placed to resurrect him?

The Kryptonian scout ship holds a genesis chamber where a Mother Box's charge revives him, but he wakes without his memories and attacks the team.

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

Lois Lane arrives and Superman calms at once, then leaves with her for the Kent farm in Smallville, where his memories return.

In Justice League, in which country is Steppenwolf's lair for the final battle?

Russia holds the abandoned nuclear reactor that Steppenwolf turns into his base, and the Snyder Cut names the ghost town around it Pozharnov.

Which two villains meet in the post-credits scene of Justice League's theatrical cut?

Lex Luthor and Deathstroke meet on a yacht after Luthor's escape from Arkham Asylum, and Luthor suggests they form a league of their own.

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

George Miller had his cast in place when Warner Bros. suspended the Sydney shoot in 2008, citing doubt over an Australian tax rebate.

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

Megan Gale won the part after talks with Jessica Biel came to nothing, but the film was cancelled before she shot a scene.

Which Jack Kirby comic series did Zack Snyder say inspired Justice League?

New Gods supplied Steppenwolf, Darkseid and the Mother Boxes, all created by Kirby for DC after he walked out on Marvel in 1970.

Where was Justice League mainly filmed when principal photography began in April 2016?

Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden hosted the shoot, eight years after an earlier Justice League film was due to go before cameras at Fox Studios in Sydney.

Zack Snyder stepped away from Justice League in May 2017 following what?

A death in his family: Snyder left after losing his daughter Autumn, and Snyder Cut campaigners went on to raise money for suicide prevention in her memory.

Justice League's reshoots, which cost about $25 million, ran for two months in Los Angeles and which other city?

London shared the extra work, which cost far more than reshoots usually do and pushed the film's budget to about $300 million.

Henry Cavill's moustache was digitally removed from Justice League reshoots because of his contract on which film?

Mission: Impossible - Fallout was shooting at the same time and Paramount would not let him shave, so the moustache was erased in post-production.

What did Warner Bros. chief Kevin Tsujihara demand of Justice League's theatrical release?

A cut under two hours was his answer to the studio's previous 151-minute superhero epic, and the finished film came in at two hours.

Who said only 10% of his Justice League work with Snyder was used?

Its cinematographer, Fabian Wagner, made the estimate, while producer Charles Roven said 80 to 85% of the film was what had originally been shot.

Which screenwriter called Justice League's theatrical cut 'an act of vandalism' and tried to remove his name?

Chris Terrio phoned his lawyer after a screening weeks before release, but the prints were already made and pulling his name would have delayed the film.

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

Danny Elfman revived older hero themes for the film, among them the Batman theme he wrote for the 1989 movie.

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

Everybody Knows went to Sigrid, while Hallelujah closes the Snyder Cut instead, in a cover by Allison Crowe, a friend of the Snyder family.

Whose 'Superman March' is quoted in Justice League when the resurrected Superman fights the team?

John Williams wrote it for the 1978 film, and the new score twists the melody to play "in an actually very dark way" during the fight.

Which League member's 2017 solo film out-grossed Justice League on about half the budget?

Wonder Woman took over $800 million, while Justice League's $661 million left it short of a break-even point put at about $750 million.

Justice League's $93.8 million debut fell far short of which DCEU film's $166 million opening weekend?

Batman v Superman set that mark, yet audiences graded Justice League higher, a B+ CinemaScore against its predecessor's B.

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

Coco opened over Thanksgiving with an A+ grade from audiences and held Justice League in second place the following weekend as well.

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

China took about $106 million, though it was Brazil that handed the film a record, the biggest opening weekend the country had seen.

The Snyder Cut campaign was likened to which earlier film, whose replaced director finally finished his own cut in 2006?

Superman II (1980) lost Richard Donner mid-shoot, and fans spent years demanding his version before Warner Bros. let him assemble it.

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

HBO Max played it early by mistake: ten days before the premiere, some subscribers who pressed play on Tom and Jerry got the Snyder Cut instead.

What did Zack Snyder give up for creative control of the $70 million Snyder Cut?

His fee: Snyder said that working unpaid meant he was beholden to nobody and kept his bargaining power with the studio.

Who plays Darkseid in Zack Snyder's Justice League?

Ray Porter admitted he barely knew the character when he was cast, and went through what he called vocal gymnastics to find the villain's voice.

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

The Anti-Life Equation can bend the free will of all sentient life, so the disgraced Steppenwolf hopes that finding it will win back his master's favour.

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

Martian Manhunter had been hiding in plain sight, since Snyder said Harry Lennix's stern official was the shape-shifter all along, from Man of Steel on.

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

Jared Leto's Joker was never part of the original plan, and Snyder wrote him into the new scenes shot during the 2020 additional photography.

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

John Stewart was played by Wayne T. Carr, but the studio had its own plans for the character, so the ending was reworked without him.

Which S.T.A.R. Labs scientist in the Snyder Cut did Zack Snyder hope to spin off into his own film?

Ryan Choi, the Atom, is played by Zheng Kai, and Snyder said he had been pitching Warner Bros. a superhero film built around him.

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?

R was the rating handed down for "violence and some language", which includes Batman swearing on screen.

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

Justice Is Gray Edition was given three big-screen charity screenings on a single evening, with the proceeds going to suicide prevention.

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

The Flash enters the Speed Force to run back time and undo the heroes' defeat, the moment fans voted for on Twitter.

Why is Zack Snyder's Justice League presented in a boxy 4:3 picture instead of widescreen?

To fill IMAX screens: Snyder framed the film for their tall shape, so on a television it plays with black bars at the sides.

Which Beatles song did Gary Clark Jr. and Junkie XL cover for the Justice League soundtrack?

Come Together came out as the soundtrack's first single two months before the film, a fitting title for a story about assembling a team.

Zeus in Justice League's ancient-battle flashback is played by Sergi Constance, who has what day job?

Fitness model Sergi Constance was credited as Zeus, while the stuntman who played Ares beside him, Nick McKinless, got only a stunts credit.

Justice League filmed additional scenes at Djúpavík, a remote village in which country?

Iceland's Djúpavík is a hamlet of a few houses and one hotel, yet it served as the film's main set in the country.

Which actor plays Commissioner Gordon in Justice League?

J.K. Simmons took the part and later reprised it for a Batgirl film, which the studio cancelled after it had been shot.