Why Zack Snyder brought back Jared Letos Joker in Justice League

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Zack Snyder’s Justice League isn’t just a simple director’s cut of the original 2017 theatrical release of 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 brought in Jared Leto’s Joker, who was not previously in the movie. 

“[Adding the Joker] was a thing I had wanted to do,” Snyder tells Total Film in the latest 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 Batman v Superman – when you see Batman’s gun in the post-apocalyptic world, it has a 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 a society.” No doubt there will be plenty more internet-breaking moments in the Snyder Cut when it finally arrives.

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