Thanks to Zack Snyder himself, we’re being flooded with intriguing trivia pertaining to his time working on Justice League. In addition to revealing how Darkseid and Lois Lane factored heavily into his grand scheme, we’re now learning that his original vision was likely much darker than the fabled Snyder cut his fans have been demanding from Warner Bros.

While speaking at a recent screening of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, Snyder dropped the following bombshell, as transcribed by Screen Rant’s Stephen M. Colbert and posted to his own Twitter page:

“When this movie came out, understand that Chris Terrio and I had finished the script to Justice League before BvS came out. Some people didn’t like the movie. A vocal minority. So they said ‘there’s a lot of stuff we don’t want you to do’ so we did a rewrite from that script.