Originally Posted by
Rev9
Ultimately, I think they seized on the death of his daughter to force him out.I remember I heard the daughter passed like in March(not sure exactly) but he persevered for 2 months filming,burrying himself in the work, which was mostly post production at that stage, as I think they finished filming in January.If he had not been hamstrung, with demands of re working the film ,after so much had already been re worked in script(he even admits that the script Terrio wrote at first was massively changed by Johns and that was before Whedon added re-writes post Zack's exit), he would have persevered coz I think it was helping him cope, but by making it almost untenable he decided it was not worth the struggle, I guess if the film release was pushed as soon as he was hit by the tragedy a lot of goodwill would be earned with fans, Zack would be able to have the time to finish what he started or at least what he had almost completed.There would not have been the baggage Joss brought with cast complaints/the horrendous Cavill CGI upper lip 'wax' ..So much would have turned out better than what actually did in 2017 .The buck stops with the studio.
I guess it worked out for him in the end, looking back instead of getting a 2 hour film we would have got with that runtime mandate ,we are getting the full epic, with CGI rendering and visuals and score that were originally intended. The studio still release the same movie they tried not to, waste time,money and get bad rep for all that effort.