The Official Zack Snyder Thread

[Kal-El.9859]

I liked the boat plot but this is Superman...not Batman.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I felt the boat plot was good and it worked. It reinforced that everyone wasn't as dark or cynical as the Joker believed. I was on the edge of my seat during the boat scenes. If anything, the problem was that Nolan couldn't do reshoots for obvious reasons.

 

[Visceral]

And Batman Begins/Dark Knight. But all three of those movies were great for the first 2/3rds before really getting good their 3rd act. .

Fixed.

 

[BH/HHH]

Seeing as recently we've had trailers for comic book movies showing how to do it: Thor, Captain America and how not to do it: X-Men: First Class its got me thinking one thing they have to do is get that first trailer right. Now looking back on the trailers for Batman Begins I remember the teaser trailer been alright nothing amazing but the teaser trailer for the Dark Knight was pretty average well visually anyway. Does anyone think we'll get like an early teaser that doesnt really reveal much i.e. the Begins teaser or do you think we'll just get a trailer when theres been a fair amount of footage filmed?

 

[Rust]

Hopefully the latter. I dont wanna see a half-assed teaser with no actual footage. Again, WB has to slam it in people's faces this time. But still, doesnt mean they have to spoil it either.
But I wouldnt mind a different angle on a teaser. Something that makes you go, "what the hell...?"... "looks crazy!"... "Aaah, it's Superman!"

 

[BH/HHH]

Hopefully the latter. I dont wanna see a half-assed teaser with no actual footage. Again, WB has to slam it in people's faces this time. But still, doesnt mean they have to spoil it either.
But I wouldnt mind a different angle on a teaser. Something that makes you go, "what the hell...?"... "looks crazy!"... "Aaah, it's Superman!"

To be honest I'd be ok with a teaser trailer like the BB one just as an early thing to reveal him in the costume plsu then it gets it out there that this film is coming.

Yeah I get you so it doesnt quite seem like a Superman film and then they hit you with it. That sounds a good idea

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

To be honest I'd be ok with a teaser trailer like the BB one just as an early thing to reveal him in the costume plsu then it gets it out there that this film is coming.

Yeah I get you so it doesnt quite seem like a Superman film and then they hit you with it. That sounds a good idea

I'd love something like that first Spidey teaser with the Twin Towers, something completely unexpected. A huge robbery or natural disaster sequence, something that makes you wonder just what it is... ending with Cavill stepping up for an epic shirtrip, and that's all you see of Superman.

I'd love if they brought back "This looks like a job for..." as the tagline too.

 

[BH/HHH]

I'd love something like that first Spidey teaser with the Twin Towers, something completely unexpected. A huge robbery or natural disaster sequence, something that makes you wonder just what it is... ending with Cavill stepping up for an epic shirtrip, and that's all you see of Superman.

I'd love if they brought back "This looks like a job for..." as the tagline too.

Yeah I forgot about that teaser that was a really good teaser actually. I just think oy would be nice to have something even if its not footage made for the film just to get something out there as early as possible.

 

[Gabe99]

'Superman' Director Zack Snyder, Producer Wife Are a Package Deal

You can't get one without the other: Superman director Zack Snyder and wife/producing partner Deborah Johnson are a bundle deal.

If a studio isn't willing to have his wife act as a producer on a project with him, "It's a deal breaker," the helmer tells the New York Times.

Snyder and Johnson, who have been married for six and a half years, are presidents and producers at Cruel & Unusual FIlms, based in Burbank, Calif. They recently cast British actor Henry Cavill for the coveted role of Clark Kent in Snyder's upcoming film, Superman: Man of Steel.

"Our relationship is husband and wife, director and producer," Snyder explains. "My wife is my best friend. I trust Debbie's taste and way of navigating the world."

Johnson chimed in: "Directors go away to create for eight months, and if your spouse isn't involved, it puts a lot of pressure on the marriage, because the director is having these intimate life experiences that you can't relate to."

Since they've been married, the duo has worked on 300, Watchmen, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole and the upcoming Sucker Punch.

"The movies we make are polarizing," Johnson says. "Some people like it. Some people hate it. But I'm OK with it. As long as some people like it."

She also revealed that when they have an idea for a film or an intriguing script, they approach Warner Bros. first.

When asked what she thought of potential romances brewing on-set, she believed that if there was infidelity, "there's something wrong with the relationship. But if you're apart for several months, that definitely puts strain on the relationship."

Snyder's films aren't exactly of the romantic kind. While editing Dawn of the Dead, he remembered an instance when Johnson would share how bad the edits were. "It made our relationship stronger," he says.

"It's my job to get his point of view out, to help him develop the script, to be the liaison between the director and the studio. My job is to shelter Zack as much as possible," Johnson said.

From The New York Times:
Off Screen, a Long-Running Romance

In quieter moments, at home, the Snyders read scripts aloud to each other. “That started when he’d read ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ aloud,” Ms. Snyder said, referring to one of her husband’s favorite books, the Richard Bach story about the spiritually advanced sea gull. His favorite book, however, is “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah,” also by Mr. Bach.

“I love Richard Bach, because I grew up as a Christian Scientist,” Mr. Snyder said. “A lot of beliefs of the metaphysical aspects of that religion, especially for me, as a kid, he illustrated in ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull.’ Christian Science advocates the idea that the physical world is not real, and part of our journey is to transcend that reality through Christ-like living.”

Asked if he’s attempting to live like Christ — in Hollywood — Mr. Snyder laughed and said, “No.”

He then added, “But I enjoy the philosophy, of thinking about it.”

When compared with his Type-A wife, Mr. Snyder said that he’s the laid-back one, which he admitted can drive his spouse crazy. “I try not to be stressed out,” he said. “I let things slide; I don’t yell at anybody.”

Mr. Snyder said he’s been known to lack a certain assertiveness — something Ms. Snyder has been trying to change in him. For instance, when someone they’ve hired fails to live up to the couple’s expectations, Mr. Snyder said, he prefers to avoid confrontation and do the work himself. “It can be doing anything. It could be a bad gardener, and he’s not mowing the grass that great. I’ll just mow it myself.”

The close friends the Snyders like to spend time with are often the people they work with. When they are on location, usually in Canada, they rent a big house and share it with Celeste Coller, who is Mr. Snyder’s personal assistant and office manager, and her husband, Wesley, a producer and a close friend of Mr. Snyder’s.

The Snyders are now trying to determine where to house both of their families for the March 23 premiere of “Sucker Punch” in Los Angeles.

“My parents, sister and aunts are in New Jersey, and his sister, nephew, niece and dad are in Massachusetts, and they’re all coming,” Ms. Snyder said. “Some will be at hotels because we can’t fit everything.”

But that is just one plot point within the complex story that is their lives. “We’re starting on ‘Superman,’ and we’re trying to get two of the kids into high school, and one into college,” she added.

Might there be a seventh child? “Kids are not out of the question,” Ms. Snyder said by e-mail. “We shall see.”

 

[dark_b]

i guess its a trend. its very good for the paycheck. by forcing your wife on the movie and set you can spend time with her and she also gets payed money. of course Nolan's wife and SNyder's wife are not one of the best producers in hollywood but they get to do what everyone here dreams.

hey if it works why change it. WB made a lot of money with their movies.

 

[El Payaso]

Bringing your wife to the job? Mmmmmh, never a good idea.

 

[Doctor Jones]

For a director, it's better than not including her. If the wife is at another job or stays at home when you're away for months, depending on the production, it does put a strain on things.

To the female posters here. Am I right? I can't imagine why you would want to stay with someone who works more than spends time with you and family. That's why it's better if both are involved.

 

[El Payaso]

For a director, it's better than not including her. If the wife is at another job or stays at home when you're away for months, depending on the production, it does put a strain on things.

To the female posters here. Am I right? I can't imagine why you would want to stay with someone who works more than spends time with you and family. That's why it's better if both are involved.

As important as the marital issues are for spouses' personal lives, artistic decisions shouldn't be made on that basis.

 

[Project862006]

would you have restraint on the set of sucker punch

best she was there

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

would you have restraint on the set of sucker punch

best she was there

Lol... I would've gotten one look at Emily Browning

"Huh? What wife...?"

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

Sucker Punch Goes into Diabetic Coma with Eye-Candy on Trailer #3

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm sorry Jamie but I am still looking forward to SuckerPunch. I am actually not expecting a good movie and I do expect it to underperform at the boxoffice but I am still looking forward to it because of the visuals. If I end up hating it I have no one to blame but myself for seeing the film.

 

[Project862006]

^same boat i feel the action scenes look different and fresh and that alone is hooking me

 

[I Am The Knight]

Oh Yeah! Sucker Punch looks like crazy hella cool fun, like Harry Knowles would say. I'm so there.

 

[craigdbfan]

And damn sexy to boot.

It's so obvious that Zack loves anime with this movie. He's now made that very clear.

 

[Lencho01]

Sucker Punch doesn't look like something I'd pay to see.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Would you pay to touch?

 

[Alonsovich]

Would you pay to touch?

 

[Jake Cassidy]

I really wanna see Sucker Punch. 5 hot chicks kicking arse. Who gives a **** about story? t:

 

[Jake Cassidy]

Lol... I would've gotten one look at Emily Browning

"Huh? What wife...?"

Dibs on Vanessa. t: