Zachary Edward Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He made his feature film debut in 2004 with Dawn of the Dead, a remake of the 1978 horror film of the same name. Since then, he has directed or produced a number of comic book and superhero films, including 300 (2006) and Watchmen (2009), as well as the Superman film that started the DC Extended Universe, Man of Steel (2013), and its follow-ups, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017), as well as the director's cut of Justice League that was later released in 2021. He also directed the computer-animated film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010), the psychological action film Sucker Punch (2011), the zombie heist film Army of the Dead (2021), and the two-parter space opera films Rebel Moon (2023) and Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver (2024).
In 2004, he founded the production company The Stone Quarry (formerly known as Cruel and Unusual Films) alongside his wife Deborah Snyder and producing partner Wesley Coller.
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the first non-American actor to portray Superman in film. In addition, ZackSnyder has aimed to give Superman a more realistic arc in his DCEU films as...
Batman in the new expansive franchise, first appearing in 2016 with the ZackSnyder-directed film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The film would begin...
Justice League (2017) (both again directed by Snyder), and in the director's cut of Justice League, ZackSnyder's Justice League (2021); he then made a cameo...
of Steel (2013), with director ZackSnyder set to spearhead the franchise. Following the negative reception to Snyder's follow-up film Batman v Superman:...
filmmaker ZackSnyder, his wife Deborah Snyder and their producing partner Wesley Coller. Cruel and Unusual Films, Inc. was founded in 2004 by ZackSnyder, his...
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Australian television series Summer Love. She was cast as Sam in the ZackSnyder film Rebel Moon (2023) and the follow-up, Rebel Moon – Part Two: The...
been cast in the role of Clark Kent / Superman in director ZackSnyder's Man of Steel. Snyder called Cavill "the perfect choice to don the cape and S shield...
later John Wick: Chapter 4. Hatten also wrote a number of scripts that ZackSnyder would produce starting with the 2021 Netflix films Army of the Dead and...
cast as the lead in the sci-fi adventure film Rebel Moon directed by ZackSnyder for Netflix. Boutella played the female lead in SAS: Rogue Heroes, released...