>In the aftermath of Warner Bros.' superhero team-up film Justice League performing far below expectations and headed toward what increasingly appears to be a final global box office tally of $650 million or possibly less, there's a great deal of media guesswork at what went wrong and who is to blame. The desire to place the entire burden of guilt upon one single person's shoulders is leading to lots of finger-pointing and claims of behind-the-scenes intrigues, some of it true, some half-truth, and some purely speculation or outright historical revisionism largely revealing the biases and ulterior motives of this or that particular source or clique at WB or in Hollywood at large.
>The primary targets for most of the intense blame and bashing, some of it outright insults and personal attacks, have been Zack Snyder and Deborah Snyder. The "it's all Snyder's fault" crowd tend to frame the claim like this: the Snyders came aboard the DCEU with Man of Steel, were put in charge of developing the plans and tone of the entire DCEU, had too much creative freedom and answered to only one or two people at the entire studio, and create a cynical and dark incarnation of the DC Comics world that ruined the DCEU and sank its box office prospects. The problem with that view is it's full of inaccuracies.
>The truth about the DCEU is far more complicated than one person who came walking in without supervision and just knocked over all the tables. However much such simplistic narratives and quick blame-game results make people feel better and safer, it ignores many details and facts about the larger array of people and ideas and actions that played significant roles in what transpired.