30 Facts About Zack Snyder

Zachary Edward Snyder was born on March 1,1966 and is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer.

Zack Snyder made his feature film debut in 2004 with Dawn of the Dead, a remake of the 1978 horror film of the same name.

Zack Snyder directed the computer-animated film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, the psychological action film Sucker Punch, the zombie heist film Army of the Dead, and the space opera film Rebel Moon.

In 2004, he founded the production company The Stone Quarry alongside his wife Deborah Zack Snyder and producing partner Wesley Coller.

Zachary Edward Zack Snyder was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and raised in Riverside, Connecticut.

Zack Snyder's mother, Marsha Manley, was a painter and a photography teacher at Daycroft School, which Snyder later attended.

Zack Snyder has an older sister, Audrey, and was raised as a Christian Scientist.

Zack Snyder had a brother, Sam, who died when Snyder was a teenager.

Zack Snyder attended Camp Owatonna in Harrison, Maine, during the summer months as a child.

Zack Snyder studied painting a year after high school at Heatherley School of Fine Art in England, although he had already begun filmmaking.

Zack Snyder made his feature film debut with the remake of the horror film Dawn of the Dead, and scored a box office hit with the fantasy war film 300, adapted from writer-artist Frank Miller's Dark Horse Comics miniseries of the same name.

Zack Snyder produced, co-wrote, and directed Sucker Punch, which was released on March 25,2011.

Zack Snyder directed 2013's Man of Steel for Warner Bros.

Zack Snyder directed, Cavill reprised his role as Superman, and Ben Affleck played Batman.

On January 29,2019, Zack Snyder announced that he had signed on to helm Army of the Dead, a zombie heist thriller, for Netflix.

Zack Snyder directed and produced the film with his partner and wife, Deborah Zack Snyder, via their newly rebranded production company, The Stone Quarry.

In July 2021, Zack Snyder was officially announced to be developing the film Rebel Moon for Netflix.

Zack Snyder was working on an adaptation of the 1943 novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, but confirmed he had abandoned it in 2021 due to political reasons.

Zack Snyder has expressed an interest in making a film, in the style of 300, about George Washington.

Zack Snyder will produce Twilight of the Gods, an anime-style web series inspired by Norse mythology for Netflix.

Zack Snyder is developing a King Arthur film, which he said will be a "faithful retelling".

Zack Snyder often uses slow motion, particularly the technique of speed ramping, in and out of the fight scenes in his films, differing from other directors who make multiple cuts and close-ups during a fight.

Zack Snyder has been described as one of the most polarizing directors of modern cinema.

In 2009, Zack Snyder listed Excalibur, Mad Max 2, A Clockwork Orange, Blue Velvet, and RoboCop as his five favorite films.

Zack Snyder has eight children: two biological children and two adopted daughters with Weber, two biological sons from a relationship with Kirsten Elin, and two adopted children with Johnson.

The suicide of his daughter Autumn prompted Zack Snyder to withdraw from post-production work on Justice League in May 2017 to be with his family, which resulted in Joss Whedon completing the film in his place.

Zack Snyder promoted this effort on social media by selling clothing and merchandise related to the Zack Snyder Cut; in May 2021, it was revealed that this effort had raised more than $750,000 in charitable donations to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

In 2021, Zack Snyder partnered with Save the Children, a global child rights organization, to build a 100-bed temporary hospital facility in Delhi to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic in India.

Zack Snyder endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

Zack Snyder won the Society of British Advertisers Award for Humor for his controversial EB Beer commercial "General's Party".