For the record, 2020 is not your typical year at the box office, and 2021 is looking to, similarly, be a year in which filming is reduced and the viability of theaters is limited. Therefore, we can immediately infer that a Snyder Cut of Justice League makes sense in that it's an oddity, its social media presence is huge, most of it is already filmed, and Zack Snyder said he'd work for free!

Early estimates clocked the bill for this new Justice League at around $20-30 million, but more recently, that number has ballooned up to around $70 million as a result of reshoots and loads of new visual effects.

Senior Box Office Analyst Jeff Bock seems to think, however, that the price tag could go even higher. "While Justice League wasn't The Avengers DC was hoping for at the box office, there is no denying superheroes and their machinations are still the champions of social media," says Bock. "Considering content is at a premium right now, and we're in the middle of an all-out war for eyeballs, HBO Max investing upwards of $100 million for an extended comic book caper seems like a solid play for subscribers."

The reigning highest budget for a film is Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides which cost $378.5 million to make back in 2011. If you consider Justice League and the new Snyder cut of the film all one movie, however, then that record is potentially about to be broken.

Will $400 million spent on one superhero story be worth it? Only time will tell. The Snyder Cut of Justice League is set for release in 2021 on HBO Max.

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What is the Justice League Snyder Cut costing HBO Max - Looper