1. Zachary Edward Snyder was born on March 1,1966 and is an American filmmaker.
33 Facts About Zack Snyder
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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.
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In 2004, he founded the production company The Stone Quarry alongside his wife Deborah Zack Snyder and producing partner Wesley Coller.
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Zack Snyder's mother, Marsha Manley, was a painter and a photography teacher at Daycroft School, which Snyder later attended.
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Zack Snyder had a brother, Sam, who died when Snyder was a teenager.
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Zack Snyder was raised as a Christian Scientist, and attended a summer camp in Harrison, Maine, run by the church.
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Zack Snyder studied painting a year after high school at Heatherley School of Fine Art in England, although he had already begun filmmaking.
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Back in high school, Zack Snyder struggled due to his dyslexia and made his first film there with the camera his mother bought him, using it to make an unflattering commentary about his school's administration that got him expelled.
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Zack Snyder's classmates included fellow future Hollywood directors Michael Bay and Tarsem Singh.
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Zack Snyder directed "Respect" for Budweiser, which came out in February 2002.
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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.
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Zack Snyder produced, co-wrote, and directed Sucker Punch, which was released on March 25,2011.
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Zack Snyder directed 2013's Man of Steel for Warner Bros.
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Zack Snyder directed, Cavill reprised his role as Superman, and Ben Affleck played Batman.
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On January 29,2019, Zack Snyder announced that he had signed on to helm Army of the Dead, a zombie heist thriller, for Netflix.
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Zack Snyder directed and produced the film with his partner and wife, Deborah Zack Snyder, via their newly rebranded production company, The Stone Quarry.
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In July 2021, Zack Snyder was officially announced to be developing the film Rebel Moon for Netflix.
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Zack Snyder produced and directed two episodes of Twilight of the Gods, an anime-style web series inspired by Norse mythology, for Netflix.
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In May 2021, it was reported that Zack Snyder had been developing Horse Latitudes, a film about two war photographers since 2011, although the project was on hold while he works at Netflix.
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Zack Snyder held the television rights to an adaptation of Black Kiss, a late-1980s comic by Howard Chaykin.
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In 2022, Zack Snyder expressed interest in directing a science fiction film adaptation of the Adult Swim cartoon series Rick and Morty, feeling that such a film would be the closest project he could tackle to make a comedy film.
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Zack Snyder will write the screenplay alongside Shay Hatten and Kurt Johnstad.
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Zack Snyder often uses slow motion, particularly the technique of speed ramping, in and out of the fight scenes in his films.
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Zack Snyder has been described as one of the most polarizing directors of modern cinema.
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Director James Cameron praised Zack Snyder, listing him as one of the filmmakers who created their own "cinematic language".
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In 2009, Zack Snyder listed Excalibur, Mad Max 2, A Clockwork Orange, Blue Velvet, and RoboCop as his five favorite films.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In 2021, Zack Snyder partnered with Save the Children, a global child rights organization, to build a 100-bed temporary hospital facility in New Delhi to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic in India.
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Zack Snyder endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
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Oscar-winner director James Cameron, in an interview given to Comic Book Debate about the filmmakers that have at times influenced him, mentioned that the work Zack Snyder did on 300 was pretty revolutionary at the time and introduced a new "cinematic language", along with the names of Robert Rodriguez and Ridley Scott.
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Zack Snyder is one of the highest-grossing film directors of all time, being in the top 40 of the worldwide ranking.