Why Zack Snyder brought back Jared Leto's Joker in Justice League

Jared Leto in Zack Snyder's Justice League
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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Zack Snyder's Justice League isn't just a simple director's cut of the original 2017 theatrical release of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Justice League – it's a completely new beast. The filmmaker has striven to make the new version as different as possible, even filming two additional scenes in 2020. One of those brou𒀰ght in Jared Leto𒅌's Joker, who was not previously in the movie. 

"[Adding the Joker] was a thing I had wanted to do," Snyder tells 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Total Film in the late💝st issue of the magazine, "because frankly, the ultimate conflict in a universe where Batman exists is for him to confront Joker. I was afraid that if this was the last Justice League with Ben [Affleck's Batman] and Jared, it would be remiss if I couldn't figure out a way for them to come into conflict. 

"Also, it was a wish of mine to bring Joker into the continuing storyline. I hinted at it in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Batman v Superman – when you see Batman's gun in the post-apocalyptic world, it hꦜas aꦓ Joker playing card taped to it. This has a little bit to do with that concept."

We have already seen part of the scene in a Justice League trailer, revealing that Leto's 🦋Joker will say the very meme-able line, "We live in ꦯa society." No doubt there will be plenty more internet-breaking moments in the Snyder Cut when it finally arrives.

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