Zack Snyder's Justice League was completely unprecedented in the world of cinema, as it came to fruition after years of fan demand. As a result of several rigorous campaigns led by fans, Warner Bros. finally caved and allowed the polarizing director to restore his vision of the movie.
In the wake of Warner Bros. carrying out their promise, other directors have come out to talk about older movies of theirs that they'd want to see have the same treatment. They are movies that followed the same path as The Justice League, as they were greatly altered by the studio in post-production with tons of footage left unused. This is in contrast to a traditional 'director's cut', which makes smaller alterations, usually adding some extra scenes, or making relatively minor changes to extend the time of the film.
Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World)
While doing the rounds promoting his new movie, The Sopranos spin-off The Many Saints of Newark, Alan Taylor talked about his very own Snyder Cut with Thor: The Dark World. Though no movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been critically derided, the second movie about the God of Thunder has by far the worst reception.
The Dark World isn't that bad, but Taylor thinks his director's cut would improve it and smooth out a lot of the movie's rough edges. According to Inverse, Taylor said, "the movie that got released was changed quite a bit." Apparently, the tone was completely different, and the director would love to see the movie in its original form.
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Some directors are more involved in the editing process than others, such as Martin Scorsese and The Coen Brothers, and Quentin Tarantino is no different. So it comes as a surprise that he still talks about additional footage of Django Unchained that could make up a director's cut years after the fact.
Django Unchained is Tarantino's best western, so it'd make any fan of the director drool to hear that Tarantino put together a three-hour and 20 minute cut of the movie. According to Tarantino himself, it could be released in the distant future.
David Ayer (Suicide Squad)
An "Ayer Cut" of 2016's Suicide Squad has been the most well-documented of any potential future director's cut. Ever since Warner Bros. green-lit Zack Snyder's Suicide Squad due to fan demand, Twitter users have been campaigning for the studio to give David Ayer the same opportunity.
The director hasn't been quiet about how much the studio interfered with his vision of the movie, and there's apparently a whole movie's worth of Joker footage just sitting on the cutting room floor. Ayer keeps yo-yo-ing over whether or not he'd want to spearhead his own cut of the movie, but he humors anybody who talks about it.
Chris Columbus (Mrs. Doubtfire)
Chris Columbus commented on a possible director's cut of the beloved Robin Williams classic when rumors were circling about an NC-17 version of the family movie. The reason why an NC-17 version of Mrs. Doubtfire might exist is because of just how much Robin Williams improvised on set.
Not everything the actor said was suitable for children, and it fascinatingly wasn't even suitable for those under 17. However, the director denied that it was ever rated NC-17, but there is an R-rated version. It'd be great if the movie ever saw the light of day, but out of all them, it seems the unlikeliest.
Zack Snyder (Sucker Punch)
Warner Bros. gave Zack Snyder an extra $70 million to complete his vision for Zack Snyder's Justice League. But that seemingly wasn't enough, as he wants to repeat the process with another one of his older movies.
Sucker Punch is the worst received movie in Snyder's filmography, but the director claims that the movie was radically changed to be more commercial. A director's cut of Sucker Punch could have a similar effect to the movie just as ZSJL did to The Justice League. It'd make the plot of the movie a lot more coherent, which was a major problem with the theatrical release.
Richard Kelly (Southland Tales)
With his directorial debut was the phenomenal cult classic Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly is a one-hit-wonder movie director. He has failed to repeat that movie's success ever since. His sophomore effort, Southland Tales, is set in a dystopian future and it's one of the strangest movies of the 21st century.
In the film, Sarah Michelle Gellar plays an adult movie star, and Justin Timberlake plays an Iraq war veteran who spontaneously bursts into renditions of songs by The Killers. Despite it being a box office bomb and not remotely having any growing cult following, Kelly is working on a director's cut of the movie. It'll even out Snyder Cut the Snyder Cut, as Kelly's cut of Southland Tales will be over six hours long.
McG (Terminator Salvation)
Though Terminator Salvation disappointed critics and the fanbase, director McG says there's a director's cut in a vault that would have been much more satisfying. Unlike many other director's cuts that are left in the dark, there's a lot of information available about McG's cut of Terminator Salvation.
The movie would receive an R rating instead of a PG-13 for being much darker. Additionally, Terry Crews had an important role that was entirely cut from the final version of the movie, and there is a completely different final act that would have seen the film end much differently too.
Andy Muschietti (It)
Andy Muschietti directed both It movies to huge acclaim, and they were two of the most terrifying film released in years, but the director isn't finished playing around in the Stephen King world. Muschietti has an ambitious vision to combine both Chapter I and Chapter II into one movie and add all of the deleted footage to it too.
Given that both movies come to a total of five hours and five minutes without any bonus footage, the supercut would make one long movie. Unfortunately, there haven't been any updates in over a year, so that might mean audiences may never see it. But regardless, there's still a lot of unused footage that fans are still dying to see.
Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood)
For April Fools this year, actor Margot Robbie joked that there's a 20-hour cut of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Though that might be a bit of an exaggeration, the filmmaker did shoot countless hours of footage for the movie, and there is still a director's cut that Quentin Tarantino wants to release.
Similar to the Django cut he's working on, Quentin Tarantino told Joe Rogan that his cut of Hollywood will be around three hours and 20 minutes. And with the unseen footage in the commercial for the novelization of the film, it's possible that fans could see the cut sooner rather than later.
Josh Trank (Fantastic Four)
Josh Trank is somebody who has talked about his own version of the critically-scathed Fantastic Four on countless occasions. The 2015 movie is notorious for the tug of war game Trank and the studio were playing when it came to the final edit.
Trank has always been in two minds over whether or not he'd care to release his version of the movie, which was altered so much. However, the latest news came last year when Trank requested that fans do not campaign for the "Trank Cut," but that only adds to the mystery of the cut even more.