Zack Snyder is one of the directors that has made lots of visual striking films! Each frame is like a painting.
So it’s about time to find out some more about his divisive career and his life!
- His full name is Zachary Edward Snyder
- He was born on March 1, 1966
- He is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter
- He made his feature film debut in 2004 with a remake of the 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead
- Since then, he has done a number of comic book and superhero films
- Including 300 (2006)
- And Watchmen (2009)
- As well as the Superman
- The film that started the DC Extended Universe, Man of Steel (2013)
- And its follow-ups, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
- And Justice League (2017)
- He also served as co-screenwriter for 300, Sucker Punch (2011), and 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
- An executive producer for Suicide Squad (2016) and Aquaman (2018)
- And as co-writer of the story for Wonder Woman (2017) and Justice League
- Zack Snyder is the co-founder of Cruel and Unusual Films
- A production company he established in 2004
- Alongside his wife Deborah Snyder and producing partner Wesley Coller
- Zack Snyder was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin
- He was raised in Riverside, Connecticut
- His mother, Marsha Manley, was a painter and a photography teacher at Daycroft School
- Which Snyder later attended
- His father, Charles Edward “Ed” Snyder, worked as an executive recruiter
- He has an older sister, Audrey
- He was raised as a Christian Scientist
- 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
- Afterward, Snyder attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California
- Zack Snyder often uses slow motion in and out of the fight scenes in his films
- Which Amy Nicholson of BoxOffice magazine remarked separates the director from other filmmakers who make multiple cuts and close-ups during a fight
- Zack Snyder lives in Pasadena with his second wife
- She is producer Deborah Johnson
- The couple first met in 1996
- They started dating in 2002
- They got married on September 25, 2004 at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan, New York
- He was previously married to Denise Weber
- Zack Snyder has eight children
- Half of whom are adopted
- They are Olivia, Willow, Autumn, Eli, Ezekiel, Jett, Sage and Cash
- He and Denise had Olivia and Eli
- They adopted Willow and Autumn from China
- Two younger sons, Ezekiel and Jett
- They are from his relationship with Kirsten Elin
- Who was his line producer on commercials for some time
- Zack Snyder and Deborah adopted Sage and Cash during the course of making Man of Steel
- On March 12, 2017, his daughter Autumn, committed suicide
- This prompted Snyder to withdraw from post-production work on Justice League
- This happenned in May 2017
- He wanted to be with his family
[…] Sources: Despotakis, Costas. ”Zack Synder trivia: 50 facts about the director you didn’t know.” Useless daily, 25 March. 2019, https://www.uselessdaily.com/movies/zack-snyder-trivia-50-facts-about-the-director-you-didnt-know […]