Unity is strength and if millions of people have the same goal, their voice can reach the upper echelons of film studios.
Zack Snyder’s Justice League has finally seen the light. Since last March 18 you can enjoy on HBO the version of the famous superhero group that the director always wanted to release. Without going into the details – you can check the story of the film’s ups and downs in the link under this text – we can summarize the film’s journey as an authentic act of love between Zack Snyder and his fans.
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Had it not been for the pressure of his followers, who since the premiere of League of Justice in 2017 they have not stopped asking the author’s montage of Watchmen, we could not see this four-hour story that takes us into the DC universe, leaving room to fully develop the characters of Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Cyborg and The Flash.
It was the fans who, unhappy with the work of Joss Whedon – the director who signed Warner Bros. after Snyder’s departure – trusted the original vision and constantly asked for it to be released. Warner took note and in 2020 announced that they were preparing to launch the Snyder’s cut for the enjoyment of the fans.
The opinion of the fans has more and more weight and here we collect other cases of movies and series that came forward thanks to the pressure of the followers. As they say, unity is strength.
Deadpool
Deadpool It might as well have stayed in a 20th Century Fox studio drawer had it not been for the fans. In July 2014, the night before that year’s San Diego Comic Con ended, a test scene of Deadpool that drove the fans crazy. The study did not finish seeing the project with good eyes but, when seeing the reaction of the public, it gave the green light. Still not completely trusting them, Fox gave filmmaker Tim Miller and his team a much lower budget than any superhero movie of the day.
Still, they turned the Mouth Mercenary into one of the most profitable mutants in the house. The key to his success was finding his own style and not being afraid to put in badass jokes and a lot of black humor. Regarding the leak that saved the production, it is not yet known who was the culprit, but the main suspects are the director Tim Miller, the protagonist Ryan Reynolds and the writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.
Lucifer
Lucifer It will end with its sixth season, but it came very close to having only three installments. The fiction starring Tom Ellis was released under the Fox umbrella, but due to the high budget and low audience data on the network, the studio decided to end its trajectory in 2018 after releasing the third season. That’s when the fan phenomenon exploded and the #SaveLucifer movement began.
Lucifer It had a large number of viewers who watched the series by other means, not on Fox, so they did not count for the audience data, but when the news of its cancellation broke, they were seen and demonstrated the great support it had. . Thanks to them, Netflix decided to keep the rights and continue producing it. Years later, the company announced that it was going to put an end to its fifth season and, once again, the fans managed to extend the story with a new batch of episodes. Finally, Lucifer will say goodbye to its audience after the sixth installment.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Andy Samberg’s comedy was canceled in May 2018 after five seasons, but it wasn’t long until Brooklyn Nine-Nine was resurrected on another chain. Just one day after the ending was announced, NBC grabbed the rights and relied on a new 13-episode installment. The ‘sitcom’ came up with several suitors to get hold of it and both Hulu, Netflix and TBS considered the possibility of buying it.
The series found a cozy home on NBC, which renewed it for a seventh season and then an eighth without the previous one having been released. However, in 2020 their plans changed. The coronavirus pandemic and police brutality against George Floyd in the United States made it difficult for the team to strike a comedic tone at a police station. For that reason -and other reasons-, NBC announced that the eighth installment would be the last and that it would see the light in the 2021-2022 season.
Day to day
Day to day It is another example of salvation thanks to the support of the fans. It often happens that Netflix is one of the chains that save, but in this case it is on the side of the bad guys. The streaming service announced that Justina Machado’s fiction would end after three seasons. From that point on, executive producers Gloria Calderon Kellett and Mike Royce set out to find another home for their project and, at the same time, fans started the #SaveODAAT campaign.
In June 2019, Day to day It became part of Pop TV, but the pandemic hit them squarely. The fourth season began airing on March 24, 2020 and saw the light 6 episodes before having to stop production. On April 28, 2020, they said goodbye thanking the fans and promising to return soon, but in December 2020 it was definitively canceled without the team finding a new home.
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