Zack Snyder is still holding out hope that Warner Bros. will eventually allow him to release his director's cut for Sucker Punch.

Breaking down his career in a video for Vanity Fair, Snyder talked about his experience making Sucker Punch. "That [movie] was the first time where I really faced, like, a true radical restructuring of the film for it to be more commercial," he said. "And there is a director's cut of that movie that has yet to be released. I'll say that out loud."

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Released in 2011, Sucker Punch was directed by Snyder from an original script he co-wrote with Steve Shibuya. The film starred Emily Browning as Babydoll, a young woman who is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather in the 1960s. As a way of coping with her terrible reality, Babydoll imagines she's actually a dancer in a brothel and teams up with four other dancers in an effort to escape, pitting her against the brothel's volatile owner (played by a then lesser-known Oscar Isaac).

Upon its debut in theaters, Sucker Punch was a box office failure that earned mostly negative reviews, with critics accusing it of indulging in the very kind of sexism it was attempting to critique. "It's a protest movie in a lot of ways. It's a movie about genre," Snyder said. "I was asked at the time 'Why did you dress the girls like that?' and I'd always go 'I didn't dress them like that, you did.' I always saw it as an indictment of, in some ways, popular culture. I think at the time I was criticized for it being the opposite, like, some sort of sexist rant. It was fun to make and I still love it to this day."

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In Nov. 2020, Snyder explained why his director's cut for Sucker Punch is unlikely to see the light of day, saying "There is a conflict, if we generate another version of the movie, while that movie has been sold." However, while he admitted to not knowing the full ins and outs of the situation, he also indicated Warner Bros. should only have the rights to his director's cut for a certain amount of time. "At some point that time ends," he added.

Snyder's latest film, Army of the Dead, is currently playing in a semi-wide theatrical release. It will begin streaming on Netflix May 21.

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Source: Vanity Fair