“You have to acknowledge it.
If you don’t, the legacy they were able to create is dismissed.
I can’t.”
Content warning: this story discusses mental health and suicide.
Snyder himself hascalled some of his fans toxic for their behaviorregarding Justice League and fandom in general.
“In the case of Justice League, they lined up.
They said, ‘There’s a movie out there that we want to see.’
And it’s around a struggle that we had as a family.
All of it came together.
People are like, ‘The fandom is toxic.’
‘They were so angry to get the cut.’
Also, people’s lives were saved by the money that those kids raised.
“They’re also responsible for the saving of lives.
You have to acknowledge it.
If you don’t, the legacy they were able to create is dismissed.
I can’t.”
The campaign also targeted entertainment journalists who covered the news of the fan campaign to release the Snyder Cut.
“I lost my daughter to suicide.
I left the movie famously.
They exist beyond the time they were recorded,” he said.
“The thing you hope is that in the end, the markers meant something to people.
“Mental health has been a big thing for my wife and I since losing my daughter.
“That the fans have gotten this opportunity to join with us and be with us.
It’s a huge stigma.
Nobody wants to talk about that they’re having trouble.
It’s not a sign of weakness.
It’s 100% part of being human.
I’m fine.'
And it’s an easy thing to just take a stab at muscle through,” he said.
Snyder also shared a story of his own mental health struggles when he was making 2009’s Watchmen.
That’s hard stuff.
That was just life being lumpy for us.
Trying to make a movie.
Being away from the kids.
All that struggle,” he said.
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