Earlier this year, Zack Snyder stepped back from the very bright spotlight of “Justice League” to deal with a tragic, family situation, and passed the reins to Joss Whedon, who will be finishing picture. Now, the filmmaker is slowly stepping back behind the camera, flexing some creative muscles with a new, iPhone shot short film, “Snow Steam Iron” (trailer below). However, even as the director gets back to work, he won’t be reuniting with the “Justice League” gang.
“I’m at a place where I feel excited about it and I’m happy for my guys and I love these people that are working on it, and they’re my family and I think they’re doing an amazing job,” Snyder told Wired. “But I’ve kind of just let them do their thing.”
He also says it would be “unfair in a lot of ways” to try and reassert control on the picture, and that does make a lot of sense. By all accounts, Whedon is taking the superhero teamup movie through from extensive reshoots, and just months away from release, likely has a strong handle on how it’s all coming together. For Snyder to come in at this late stage probably doesn’t seem like the wisest move.
However, the filmmaker has plenty on his plate, including his long developing Afghan war drama “The Last Photograph,” which centers on a journalist and the sole witness and survivor of an attack on a group of Americans in Afghanistan, who teams with an ex-special ops dude to help find the people who kidnapped one of this family members in exchange for the story. What you might have forgotten is that Snyder is also working on an adaptation of Ayn Rand‘s “The Fountainhead,” and that’s still very much in the works, with Wired revealing he’s “working on the script.” If that should ever happen to get made, it would certainly be…..interesting…..to see how that turns out….especially given the current political climate, and the author’s embrace by the right wing.
So, it looks like Snyder’s future doesn’t involve superheroes, and we’re curious to see what he does with the options in front of him.
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The trailer looks like every single music video Zack Snyder ever made in the 90’s. It seriously gave me a wave of nostalgia for Mtv circa 1996 (which is not necessarily a bad thing…)
Ayn Rand, ok all of the crypto-fascism in his superhero films makes sense.
So a solid distaste for the government is facist?
I don’t suppose you’ve ever actually read any of her books have you?
‘A solid distaste for the government’ isn’t necessarily fascist But in the Randian paradigm, the distaste is for those elements of a democratic government which embody solidarity and compassion, and defy rugged individualism and survival of the fittest. In the absence of a duly elected government, imperfect as that system may be, tyranny of the strongest will prevail. In our times that means a corporate hegemony which purports to represent liberty but is really fascism of the rich. That the working class would fall for this ploy, as with trump, is the great tragedy of our time.
Just keep him the hell away from the DCEU.
Anyone know whats going on with JL 2? I thought Snyder was scheduled to direct that as well?
Ayn Rand’s philosophy doesn’t exactly only belong on the right. it’s just extremely libertarian. TBH, The Fountainead is a pretty darn good book with or without you political leaning.
Objectivism isn’t really bad. It’s just flawed. She sees being objective as a virtue which is fine. But it’s like taking one of the many virtues out there and picking only one and basing everything in your life around that one idea.