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Rumor Concerning Lois Lane in "Zack Snyder's Justice League" Confirmed
SPOILER WARNING!
In a certain scene in "Zack Snyder's Justice League" which features Lois Lane (Amy Adams) at her apartment grieving the loss of Clark Kent/Superman (Henry Cavill), eagle-eyed fans may have noticed a pregnancy kit prominently shown in her bedside nightstand.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, director Zack Snyder has confirmed that this scene has originally intended to set up a reveal that Lois was pregnant with Clark Kent's child who would grow up to become the next Batman.
"Lois is pregnant at the end of the movie," Snyder said. The pregnancy test can be seen in her nightstand - with a label from the fictional brand Force Majeure, a French phrase that basically translates to "unforeseeable circumstances."
Her pregnancy is another storyline Warner Bros. wanted to cut from Snyder's movie before he left the project originally in 2017, he said. "That was always my hope, but they made me not do it, originally. But I got it in."
Presumably, this baby was conceived before Superman's death in Batman v Superman. (They did have that romantic bathtub scene, which may have been more important than viewers realized.)
Remember at the beginning of all this, when Snyder said a new Batman would replace Affleck's Bruce Wayne? "It was going to be Lois and Superman's son," the filmmaker said. "He doesn't have any powers, and then he was going to end up being the new Batman."
The Snyderverse would have flash-forwarded to a scene in which Clark Kent and Lois Lane take their now grown son to visit a familiar location. There, they ask him to pick up the crusade of their fallen friend. "Twenty years later, on the anniversary of [Batman's] death, they take young Bruce Kent down to the Batcave and they say, 'Your Uncle Bruce would've been proud if you did this,'" Snyder said.
"Anyway," the director added. "Something like that."
At the end of the film, when Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) tells Clark that he saved the Kent Farm by purchasing the bank that foreclosed on the property, Martha Kent (Diane Lane) can be seen on the front porch holding a baby toy alongside Lois who is carrying what appears to be a basket full of items possibly from a baby shower. In the Wheedon cut, the basket had been replaced by a moving box.
"Zack Snyder's Justice League" is now available to view on the HBO Max streaming app.
