Zack Snyder's Latest Instagram Post Has Whipped The #RestoreTheSnyderVerse Crowd Into A Frenzy

Zack Snyder has shared another black-and-white photo to his Instagram page, and while it isn't from his DCEU days, it has given the #RestoreTheSnyderVerse plenty to shout about...

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By MarkCassidy - Nov 19, 2025 10:11 AM EST

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Zack Snyder's recent Instagram posts have been the source of a lot of debate online, and the divisive filmmaker's latest black-and-white photo has really whipped his supporters up - despite not actually being a callback to one of his DCEU movies.

Before he launched what came to be known as the "SnyderVerse" with Man of Steel, Snyder helmed an adaptation of Alan Moore's Watchmen, and this photo features Walter Kovacs, aka Rorschach (Jackie Earle Hayley) holding the sign he carries when he decides to take some time off from beating the crap out of criminals.

As you might expect, the #RestoreTheSnyderVerse faithful are taking this as confirmation that the "end is nigh" for James Gunn's DCU, and Snyder will soon make his triumphant return to continue his saga.

While this is highly - highly - unlikely, speculation has been fuelled by the potential Warner Bros. Discovery sale and recent developments surrounding Comcast or Paramount reportedly enlisting financial backing from Saudi Arabia, as well as grifters like Cosmic Book News claiming to have "confirmed" that the "deal is done," and the SnyderVerse will return.

Whether you happen to buy into this or not (please don't), Snyder does seem to be leaning into the renewed furore with these posts, and certainly hasn't done much to dissuade his supporters from continuing their campaign.

The fact of the matter is, Superman was enough of a success for WB to greenlight Man of Tomorrow, and there are numerous other DCU projects currently in various stages of development. Do you really think that the studio is going to scrap an entire slate because a vocal minority of fans want Zack Snyder to direct Justice League 2?

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"In an alternate 1985 America, costumed superheroes are part of everyday life. When one of his former comrades is murdered, masked vigilante Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) uncovers a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his retired associates, only one of which has true powers, Rorschach glimpses a far-reaching conspiracy involving their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the world's future."

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MisterBones - 11/19/2025, 10:17 AM

He's a piece of work. He definitely gets off on placating and manipulating his rabid fans.

Oberlin4Prez - 11/19/2025, 10:17 AM

Le sigh

JobinJ - 11/19/2025, 10:17 AM

PLeASE GOD please.

Prefer the Snyderverse way more than goof ball fart joke weak crybaby man we just got.

lazlodaytona - 11/19/2025, 10:43 AM

@JobinJ - who got super kicked in the balls

DarthMauve - 11/19/2025, 10:56 AM

@JobinJ - Please indicate where in Superman 2025 where the fart joke is. A timestamp if possible. Thank you.

JobinJ - 11/19/2025, 11:27 AM

@DarthMauve - oh god. I’m being g sarcastic about the goof slapstick humor.

Baf - 11/19/2025, 11:43 AM

@DarthMauve - Most folks here prefer Superman to snap necks and refuse to save family members.

DarthMauve - 11/19/2025, 12:20 PM

@JobinJ - Well do better, you just sound like a moron.

foreverintheway - 11/19/2025, 10:19 AM

The problem is they've been in a frenzy for years - and Zack just trying to get more followers to his IG page is actually giving them an insane level of false-hope turning them rabid. Literally willing to sell DC to the Saudi Royal family just to get...[checks notes].. Ezra Miller and Gal Gadot back?

lazlodaytona - 11/19/2025, 10:44 AM

@foreverintheway - that's the thing. they'd never be able to bring back the original actors anyway.

foreverintheway - 11/19/2025, 10:51 AM

@lazlodaytona - Lol exactly. I mentioned this in another thread but Ben Affleck literally started his own production company so that he didn't have to work with established IP ever again. Maybe he'd do a one-off cameo at best, but he'd never fully return.

InfinitePunches - 11/19/2025, 10:54 AM

@foreverintheway - Don't forget Jason Momoa as Jason Momoa.

LenSpiderman - 11/19/2025, 10:59 AM

@lazlodaytona - exactly. Restoring the snyderverse isn’t as easy as just sending Zack a check. Even if whoever is able to get snyder back on board and get the funding in place, can they get afleck back? Can they get… well… I guess most of the others would probably come back, given the chance. But at this point, I think there’s a LOT more nuts a bolts to restoring the snyderverse than there were when he was first ousted.

Oberlin4Prez - 11/19/2025, 10:59 AM

@foreverintheway - made the same point the other day. You'd maybe get Cavill back but that's one of 6.

foreverintheway - 11/19/2025, 11:38 AM

@InfinitePunches - Lol excellent point - the fact that Patrick Wilson looked and acted more like a comic-accurate Aquaman than Jason is also hilarious.

CrimsonComet40 - 11/19/2025, 10:21 AM

I'm not 100% on either Snyder or Gunn's vision for DC but after watching Snyder's movies then watching Gunn's movies, I really hope Snyder makes a comeback!

Man Of Steel, Watchmen, The Snyder Cut, and even BvS are all movies I find myself wanting to revisit. The only DC Gunn movie I find myself rewatching was his Suicide Squad. Superman and Peacemaker really shit the bed when it came to a vision for the DCU.

InfinitePunches - 11/19/2025, 10:33 AM

@CrimsonComet40 - Superman wasn't even bad. It was just meh. It was like Dr. Strange or Dark Phoenix. Just a little cringy and predictable. I saw it. Superman stopped Lex. Nothing worth rewatching for. No iconic lines. No crazy action scenes. No deep character analysis. Good casting is about all it had going for it.

TheHummus - 11/19/2025, 11:08 AM

@InfinitePunches - @InfinitePunches - the universe with Gunn is already better than the overstuffed and rushed inclusion of every justice league member in one movie. Lest people forget the terrible Martha line, the over-seriousness, the “doshoobleed?” Line, the terrible Lex Luthor played by eisenberg, the lord of the rings cavetroll cosplaying as doomsday, the killing of Superman so early in the story that NO CASUAL FAN gave a crap except wondering why they just killed him in the second film of a franchised universe.

The universe that you want to revive is a turd that started this superhero fatigue. Back when people thought it couldn’t happen. The Snyder cut happened and didn’t even bring in any significant number of subscribers. Was a 70 million dollar fail which wb regrets because they fed the trolls

It ain’t EVER coming back

InfinitePunches - 11/19/2025, 11:13 AM

@TheHummus - lol I do NOT want the Snyderverse back. It's not either/or. Listing BvS' flaws doesn't make Superman a better movie.

Honestly. What they should do is just do a time skip and make a non-origin JLA movie with David Corenswet and the original 7 lineup. Adapt "Justice" by Alex Ross. Or do a Warworld story.

TheVandalore - 11/19/2025, 10:22 AM

I hated the choice to make Rorschach sound like Bales Batman growl. That wasn't what I heard in my head when I read the comic. That being said, I thought Jackie did a swell job.

lazlodaytona - 11/19/2025, 10:46 AM

@TheVandalore -

WEAPONXOXOXO - 11/19/2025, 10:51 AM

@lazlodaytona -

InfinitePunches - 11/19/2025, 10:23 AM

The #BlackAdamverse is coming back, baybay! Bring on Shazam 3 and Harley Quinn 2!

lazlodaytona - 11/19/2025, 10:47 AM

@InfinitePunches - and Flashforward!

WEAPONXOXOXO - 11/19/2025, 10:24 AM

WalletsClosed - 11/19/2025, 10:31 AM

The king is ready to take back his throne.

Reboot the MCU and DCU

InfinitePunches - 11/19/2025, 10:33 AM

@WalletsClosed - Batman kills Darkseid then dies. The End.

WalletsClosed - 11/19/2025, 10:35 AM

@InfinitePunches - Far better than whatever the hell Gunn is doing

lazlodaytona - 11/19/2025, 10:48 AM

@WalletsClosed - wait, if Snyder came back, is that considered a reboot?

WEAPONXOXOXO - 11/19/2025, 10:50 AM

@InfinitePunches - And phukks Lois. Don't forget about the phukking Lois part.

InfinitePunches - 11/19/2025, 10:50 AM

@WalletsClosed - Why are you setting the bar so low? Justice League 3 would be better than Peacemaker? Duh. Birds of Prey was better than Peacemaker. (Both the movie and the 2002 CW show.)

But do you really want a cinematic universe where Batman, Darkseid, and Doctor Fate are dead, Superman is raising Damian, Dick Grayson is the Joker, and Zachary Levi plays Captain Marvel? No Orion. No Nightwing. What would Justice League 4 even look like? You can't move forward from where Snyder was planning to leave it.

The DCU is flawed, but at least it's salvageable.

vectorsigma - 11/19/2025, 10:31 AM

For this craziness to end, Gunn should give him a chance to make an Elserworld story, it can be a DCEU story if he wants.

Then his fantard cultists can see it burn in the box office with this theater landscape.

Then they can all finally rest in peace.

PS. Id still watch it though as per usual

WalletsClosed - 11/19/2025, 10:32 AM

@vectorsigma - Gunn should be the one with the elseworld. His DC is a parody. He's already flopping and bombing so he has that part out of the way.

AlanWarlock - 11/19/2025, 10:51 AM

@vectorsigma - No, it'll only encourage and embolden them. Look how hot and bothered they get over rumors and Instagram posts.

vectorsigma - 11/19/2025, 11:34 AM

@WalletsClosed - well, they can compare results then and whoever owns WB by then can decide.

vectorsigma - 11/19/2025, 11:36 AM

@AlanWarlock - the problem with the cultists is its always a comparison between apples and oranges.

A side by side comparison now hopefully will show them that their god cant do decent stories that will make people watch it

soberchimera - 11/19/2025, 10:31 AM

I bet there’s less of them than the Hunt for Ben Solo crowd honestly.

Clintthahamster - 11/19/2025, 10:35 AM

Doesn't take much to whip that bunch into a frenzy.

knighted - 11/19/2025, 10:38 AM

I would be more of a Gunn fan if he turned down some of the comedy. Peacemaker is a silly.

Lokiwasright - 11/19/2025, 10:41 AM

I don't care what I get. I'll watch it.

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Zack Snyder's Latest Instagram Post Has Whipped The #RestoreTheSnyderVerse Crowd Into A Frenzy

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