Dear Zack,

we don’t know each other: I’m just a big italian fan of your DC Comics’ movies. My name is Luca and I’m 27, and I discovered your DC films just by chance when I decided to go to the cinema and watch Batman vs Superman (I hadn’t previously seen Man of Steel, great mistake!). Obviously I watched italian dubbed version, because I love italian dubbing! However, after watching the movie I hadn’t a great impression about it: it looked to me very trash, and full of improvable moments.

Then, I watched the three hours long version on dvd.

I changed radically my mind: it was really beautiful, very dark, full of real action and with terrific characters. Mr. Affleck was amazing, a real dark knight, mr. Cavill was wonderful and all the other (mrs. Adams, mr. Fishburne, mr. Eisenberg and so on) were perfect. It became my favourite comics-based movie, and I didn’t change my idea even after Endgame.

Then, I watched Man of Steel because it was clear it was a needed film, and that confirmed my impression: your project looked like really epic, an authorial vision of DC modern superheroes. Many people criticised you for your films’ lack of humorism, but it’s however present, just it’s not so invasive like in Marvel’s films.

And at that point, I was going to wait for Justice League. But voices arriving to me weren’t good, until it arrived to me the horrible news that your daughter was dead. I’m sincerely making you and your wife my best condolences for what happened, and I’m near you.

We all know what was Justice League: a mutilated project, too different from your vision and too far from what we expected. There’s something of your vision in it (I loved Steppenwolf’s hint to Darkseid!) but it was a brutal end for an epic project. Your project started very well, it continued wonderfully but it ended too bad.

But then, I heard news about a Zack Snyder’s cut, and at the end you confirmed it exists, even if only Warner Bros can decide to release it on dvd.

Obviously, I know you gave up all your DC Comics’ projects, and all films after JL are and will be very different from the ones you imagined, and that’s really a shame. But however, it’s not this that I’d want to tell you. I’d just want to tell you two words.

Thank you.

Thank you for creating an epic project, thank your for your authorial vision, thank you for entertaining me so well and for pushing me to discuss your films on other internet forums, with other people. I think I’ll never forget some scenes from your films:

-          The first scenes of MoS, until Krypton’s destruction;

-          In MoS, when Zod says “I have no people”, it was a really heartbreaking moment;

-          In BvS, the so called “knightmare”, and evil Superman!;

-          In BvS, the other Bruce’s nightmare (Man-Bat?);

-          In BvS, Batman’s fight at the warehouse. He was a really nasty Batman, a dream coming true (we all know you got inspired by Frank Mliler’s Batman)!;

-          In JL, like I said, Steppenwolf naming Darkseid, a nerdgasm;

-          And so on.

In Italy we say “non piangiamo per quello che non è stato, ma gioiamo per quello che è stato”. Translated it is: “we don’t have to weep for what hasn’t been, but we have to be cheerful for what has been”. Your project was really something different from mainstream competitors, but maybe it was too complex, and the public didn’t understand it. And obviosuly, since we live in a social network dominated world, we cannot forget all the parodies, horrible reviews (made by incompetent and stupid people who don’t know anything about cinema, and are only skilled about memes and other bullshits) that killed BvS as soon as it came out in the cinemas.

But many fans like me know the truth, your project was valuable. And of course, I really hope sooner or later Warner Bros will release Zack Snyder’s cut. It would be another dream coming true. I trust your bosses, at the end they will understand, maybe in ten years, that it is the best solution.

And obviously, I’m waiting for your Fountainhead’s film version. I loved the novel, and I think you’re perfect to do a modern version of it.

Warm regars,

Luca