Zack Snyder
Inspired equally by filmmakers like George Lucas and George A. Romero, writer-director Zack Snyder set out to dazzle audiences from day one of his splashy career. Gaining a reputation as a tireless, inventive and efficient director of sleek commercials for companies like BMW and Nike throughout the 1990s, he eventually made the leap to feature films by directing a hyperkinetic reimagining of Romero's zombie classic "Dawn of the Dead" (2004). Having turned a tidy profit on a modestly budgeted genre picture, Snyder far exceeded studio expectations with his next effort, the highly stylized Spartan epic, "300" (2007), a box-office smash based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller. Nothing if not ambitious, Snyder went on to mount the big-screen adaptation of "Watchmen" (2009), the ground-breaking comic book miniseries written by Alan Moore. Looking to work on something fraught with less potential for controversy, he helmed the CGI family fantasy "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" (2010), then wrote, produced and directed the wildly self-indulgent genre mash-up spectacle "Sucker Punch" (2011), about a young girl (Emily Browning) who escapes the real world horrors of a mental asylum by retreating into her own fantasies. Resuscitating the Superman franchise with the highly-anticipated "Man of Steel" (2013) was merely one more make-or-break challenge for the director. Accused of favoring style over substance by his detractors, Snyder unapologetically offered up his films to the fans as pure popcorn entertainment.
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Zack Snyder
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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67% |
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Rebel Moon - Part Two: Director's Cut |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2024 |
53% |
|
Rebel Moon - Part One: Director's Cut |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2024 |
16% |
|
Rebel Moon: Part Two - The Scargiver |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2024 |
22% |
|
Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Cinematographer |
- | 2023 |
69% |
|
Army of Thieves |
Producer, Writer |
- | 2021 |
90% |
|
The Suicide Squad | Executive Producer | $55.8M | 2021 |
67% |
|
Army Of The Dead |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Cinematographer |
- | 2021 |
71% |
|
Zack Snyder's Justice League | Director | - | 2021 |
58% |
|
Wonder Woman 1984 | Producer | $46.5M | 2020 |
66% |
|
Aquaman | Executive Producer | $335.0M | 2018 |
39% |
|
Justice League | Director | $227.0M | 2017 |
93% |
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Wonder Woman | Producer | $412.8M | 2017 |
26% |
|
Suicide Squad | Executive Producer | - | 2016 |
29% |
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Director | $330.2M | 2016 |
45% |
|
300: Rise of an Empire |
Screenwriter, Producer |
$106.6M | 2014 |
57% |
|
Man of Steel | Director | $291.0M | 2013 |
22% |
|
Sucker Punch |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$36.4M | 2011 |
52% |
|
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Director | $55.7M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Director | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole 3D | Director | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter & Under the Hood | Screenwriter | - | 2009 |
65% |
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Watchmen | Director | $107.5M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter | Writer | - | 2009 |
61% |
|
300 |
Director, Writer |
$210.6M | 2006 |
77% |
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Dawn of the Dead | Director | $58.9M | 2004 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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75% | 77% | Twilight of the Gods | Executive Producer | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Call With Carson Daly | Guest | 2016 |