Zack Snyder’s really good at that, isn’t he?
Yesterday saw the announcement, via Twitter, of a black-and-white version of Zack Snyder’s Justice League titled Zack Snyder’s Justice League: Justice is Gray. It was teased with a scene featuring Bruce Wayne and Alfred, ironically enough, talking about Superman’s (red) cape, among other things.
So let me get this straight: 4.:3 aspect ratio, black-and-white… is this some sort of high-cost shitpost? It’s legitimately baffling to me. Aside from the fact that I mostly know the guy for de-saturating the shit out of adaptations of an otherwise colorful medium (in which case this must be his greatest victory), the aspect ratio pretty much spits in the face of filmmakers who fought hard to not have television/home video releases of their films scanned and panned, utterly destroying the look of their pictures. Add to that the fact that, regardless of the excessive de-saturation everything Snyder makes gets, this was still, essentially, a film shot for color photography. While modern software makes it easily possible to convert footage to black and white, color and black and white filming are not lit nor costumed the same way, not to mention the fact that makeup has to be done specifically for black and white filming.
But I digress. In addition to ZS’sJL:JiG, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is coming to Game Boy Advance HBO Max. Nolan was, rather famously, not pleased with the decision made by Warner Bros. last year to release all of their future 2021 content to the service rather than theaters:
There’s such controversy around it, because they didn’t tell anyone. In 2021, they’ve got some of the top filmmakers in the world, they’ve got some of the biggest stars in the world who worked for years in some cases on these projects very close to their hearts that are meant to be big-screen experiences. They’re meant to be out there for the widest possible audiences… And now they’re being used as a loss-leader for the streaming service — for the fledgling streaming service — without any consultation. So, there’s a lot of controversy. It’s very, very, very, very messy. A real bait and switch. Yeah, it’s sort of not how you treat filmmakers and stars and people who, these guys have given a lot for these projects. They deserved to be consulted and spoken to about what was going to happen to their work.
I, uh, kinda don’t think all normal human social interaction being fucked by a virus constitutes a “loss-leader” situation. But what do I know? Other than how that strategy can go either way, that is.
Source: iO9
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