Justice League, Part Two (DCEU)

**Justice League, Part Two** is an American superhero film based on the DC team of the same name. It is a sequel to *Justice League, Part One* (2017), set in the same fictional continuity known as the DC Extended Universe, and is part of Wave One of the franchise. The film is directed by Zack Snyder.

## Cast

* **Batman/Bruce Wayne** (portrayed by Ben Affleck) – A wealthy socialite, the owner of Wayne Enterprises, and co-founder of the Justice League. He dedicates himself to protecting Gotham City from its criminal underworld as a highly trained, masked vigilante equipped with various tools and weapons.
	+ Ben Affleck also portrays an older version of the character from the Knightmare future, the leader of the resistance group.
* **Superman/Clark Kent** (portrayed by Henry Cavill) – A Kryptonian survivor with superpowers and a journalist for the *Daily Planet,* based in Metropolis and a member of the Justice League.
	+ Henry Cavill also portrays an older version of the character from the Knightmare future.
* **Lois Lane** (portrayed by Amy Adams) – A reporter for the *Daily Planet* and the love interest of Clark Kent.
* **Wonder Woman/Diana Prince** (portrayed by Gal Gadot).
* **Cyborg/Victor Stone** (portrayed by Ray Fisher) – A former college athlete who, after being cybernetically reconstructed after a nearly fatal car accident, is turned into a techno-organic being enhanced by reactive, adaptive biomimetic alien technology. His enhancements include the abilities of flight, variable weaponry and technopathy. He is a member of the Justice League.
	+ Ray Fisher also portrays an older version of the character from the Knightmare future, a member of the resistance group.
* **Aquaman/Arthur Curry** (portrayed by Jason Momoa) – An Atlantean half-blood with aquatic powers and a member of the Justice League.
* **The Flash/Barry Allen** (portrayed by Ezra Miller).
	+ Ezra Miller also portrays an older version of the character from the Knightmare future, a member of the resistance group.
* **Darkseid** (portrayed by Ray Porter) - A tyrannical New God and the ruler of Apokolips.
* **DeSaad** (portrayed by Peter Guinness) - Darkseid's master enforcer.
* **Lex Luthor Jr.** (portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg).
* **Deathstroke/Slade Wilson** (portrayed by Joe Manganiello) - A mercenary, who becomes one of the surviving resistance members in the Knightmare future.
* **The Joker** (portrayed by Jared Leto) – A psychotic criminal and Batman's archenemy, who becomes one of the surviving resistance members in the Knightmare future.
* **The Riddler/Edward Nashton.**

## Trivia

Scripts for *Justice League 2* and *Justice League 3* to follow Snyder's *Justice League* were never written and never had writers assigned to them, but Snyder had a plan for their stories and comic-book artist Jim Lee drew breakdown boards for them. Production was expected to begin shortly after the release of *Justice League*, but work on *Justice League 2* was pushed back indefinitely in December 2017 in favor of a stand-alone Batman film. After the commercial flop of *Justice League* caused Warner to re-think their DCEU strategy and move away from Snyder's vision, Snyder and members of the cast and crew slowly began leaking details about his *Justice League* trilogy plan. Those details include:

* After teasing Darkseid in the *Zack Snyder's Justice League*, he would have been the main villain in *Justice League 2*.
* Batman was going to die, though it is unconfirmed, whether that's supposed to happen in either Part Two or Part Three.
* A Green Lantern was expected to appear in this movie. Producer Charles Roven was rumored to be interested in having Mark Wahlberg play Hal Jordan, though he was never officially cast in the role.
* Snyder said the scene in *Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice* with crosses over Superman's dead body were a cryptic reference to events in *Justice League 2*.
* The “Knightmare” would have been important to the plot. Snyder's plans for the “Knightmare” future were loosely inspired by the plot of the 2013 video game *Injustice: Gods Among Us*.
* *Justice League 2* would have been inspired by Grant Morrison's 2008–2009 DC crossover storyline “Final Crisis”.
* While on the set of *~~Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker~~* at Pinewood Studios—where *Justice League* was also created—Kevin Smith met with some of the crew who worked on Snyder's films and learned about what the future would have held. He revealed that *Justice League 2* was supposed to end in defeat, comparing it to the films *The Empire Strikes Back* and *Avengers: Infinity War*.
* Smith also said that *Justice League 3* would have been set entirely in the post-apocalyptic “Knightmare” Earth seen in Bruce Wayne's dream sequence in *Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice*. A rough synopsis of it being “The heroes' last stand against Darkseid and the forces of Apokolips”.

In January 2019, Zack Snyder released a t-shirt as a reward for donating to a crowdfunding campaign, with all proceeds going toward the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. His design, which resembles the Kabbalah tree of life, is said to contain the plot of his five-film arc including a planned Justice League trilogy within a mosaic of cryptic symbols and phrases. The reverse side of the shirt has a quote from Joseph Campbell, an American literature professor famed for his creation of the Hero's journey, which reads: “All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you”.