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Henry Cavill, who plays Superman in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, at San Diego Comic-Con in 2015. Panel photograph, not a film still. Photo: Gage Skidmore , CC BY-SA 3.0 . Display size adjusted; source photograph unchanged. Zack Snyder’s Justice League is an opportunity to ask what happens when a familiar film is given a different structure. More running time can provide room for motivation, hesitation and an emotional consequence. It can also make a story harder to sustain. The useful question is what the additional space does for the characters, rather than whether longer automatically means better. This is the version released in 2021, rather than a film still awaiting production. DC’s contemporary team history identifies its HBO Max debut as 18 March 2021. The BBFC’s record lists a 242-minute 2021 edition separately from the shorter theatrical film. A team needs reasons to become a team Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince bring together people whose abilities do not remove their ind...