![]() I liked Batman, I liked Superman, I wanted to make something cool. ![]() I need to create entertainment for DC that sells toys and that is for the masses and fun for everyone,’” he says of his Warner Bros. “I never looked at it as the job, ‘Oh, I’m the architect of DC. who, in 2020, three years after Justice League tanked at the box office, capitulated to fan demand and gave Snyder $80 million to reshape his own director’s cut.) But boy, do they have their fans, an army of them who have at times weaponized social media in his defense in ways that have been known to cow even hardened studio executives. His operatic, bombastic pictures are blunt instruments, not precision, clockwork devices, which is part of what makes them so contentious. Snyder is not the sort of filmmaker who’s feted at film festivals, or even the sort whose movies sparkle at the box office on the Fourth of July weekend. Zack Snyder Photographed by Shayan Asgharnia Snyder had nothing to do with that sequel, but technically it’s the final film in the so-called SnyderVerse, the constellation of DC comic book-inspired pictures - some of which Snyder directed, some of which he produced, most featuring actors he initially cast, like Henry Cavill in 2013’s Man of Steel, and Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa in the original 2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - that all carry Snyder’s inimitable underglaze. Ironically, Rebel Moon arrives on Netflix on Dec. 22, the very same date that Snyder’s former home, Warner Bros., will be releasing Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Think Star Wars, only grittier, more violent, sexier and R-rated (at least in the negotiated director’s cut, but more on that later). Instead, it’s a big-budget space epic about a group of outlaw rebels on a remote planetoid who battle an evil empire. ![]() For one thing, his new film contains not a single comic book character for him to darkly reimagine. But his latest film, Rebel Moon, is something of a departure from his career trajectory up till now, a shift in genres, if not necessarily in tone or ambition, and perhaps a refreshing change of pace from the controversy magnets he was making in the 2010s. ![]() To some, he was the savior of the DC superhero universe. Snyder’s compulsion to mold - and pull apart - has made him one of the most argued-about directors of the past couple of decades. Zack Snyder on the November 29, 2023, cover of The Hollywood Reporter Photographed by Shayan Asgharnia ![]()
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