Zack Snyder Is Still Holding Out Hope For A 'Sucker Punch' Director's Cut

Zack Snyder is reflecting on his 2011 movie, Sucker Punch.

The fantasy action movie starred Abbie Cornish, Emily Browning, Jamie Chung, Carla Gugino, Jena Malone, and Vanessa Hudgens, didn’t score a lot at the box office, but did develop a cult fan following.

In a new interview, Zack is opening up about the possibility of releasing a director’s cut of the movie and just why the reception of it was disappointing.

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Zack admitted that it was a “very polarizing film,” in his interview with the IFC Center. “To be frank, the people I’ve run across who’ve come to me and said Sucker Punch is my favorite movie’ are normally angsty teenage girls. It’s like a Morrissey song or something.”

That being said, he does have ideas of releasing a director’s cut one day.

“I’ve never gotten around to doing the director’s cut. I still plan to at some point,” he shared. “But in the original ending when Babydoll (played by Browning) is in the chair in the basement with Blue — she’s already been lobotomized — when the cop shines the light on her, the set breaks apart and she stands up and she sings a song on stage.”

He went on, “She sings, ‘Ooh, Child, things are gonna get easier.’ Blondie, and all the people that have been killed, join in and it’s the idea that in a weird way, even though she’s lobotomized, she’s kind of stuck in this infinite loop of euphoric victory. It’s weirdly not optimistic and optimistic at the same time. That’s kind of what the tone was at the end. We tested it and the studio thought it was too weird, so we changed it.”

Zack also addressed all the criticism, saying that the main thing for moviegoers and critics was “that it was too exploitative. People took the movie as if the girls fighting and all that stuff was the movie. I found that slightly disheartening.”

Just a few years ago, the cast reunited for the films’ 10 year anniversary.