Zack Snyder trivia: 50 facts about the director you didn’t know!

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!

1. His full name is Zachary Edward Snyder
2. He was born on March 1, 1966
3. He is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter
4. He made his feature film debut in 2004 with a remake of the 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead
5. Since then, he has done a number of comic book and superhero films
6. Including 300 (2006)
7. And Watchmen (2009)
8. As well as the Superman
9. The film that started the DC Extended Universe, Man of Steel (2013)
10. And its follow-ups, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
11. And Justice League (2017)
12. He also served as co-screenwriter for 300, Sucker Punch (2011), and 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
13. An executive producer for Suicide Squad (2016) and Aquaman (2018)
14. And as co-writer of the story for Wonder Woman (2017) and Justice League
15. Zack Snyder is the co-founder of Cruel and Unusual Films
16. A production company he established in 2004
17. Alongside his wife Deborah Snyder and producing partner Wesley Coller
18. Zack Snyder was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin
19. He was raised in Riverside, Connecticut
20. His mother, Marsha Manley, was a painter and a photography teacher at Daycroft School
21. Which Snyder later attended
22. His father, Charles Edward “Ed” Snyder, worked as an executive recruiter
23. He has an older sister, Audrey
24. He was raised as a Christian Scientist
25. Zack Snyder attended Camp Owatonna in Harrison, Maine
26. During the summer months as a child
27. Zack Snyder studied painting a year after high school at Heatherley School of Fine Art in England
28. Although he had already begun filmmaking
29. Afterward, Snyder attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California
30. Zack Snyder often uses slow motion in and out of the fight scenes in his films
31. Which Amy Nicholson of BoxOffice magazine remarked separates the director from other filmmakers who make multiple cuts and close-ups during a fight
32. Zack Snyder lives in Pasadena with his second wife
33. She is producer Deborah Johnson
34. The couple first met in 1996
35. They started dating in 2002
36. They got married on September 25, 2004 at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan, New York
37. He was previously married to Denise Weber
38. Zack Snyder has eight children
39. Half of whom are adopted
40. They are Olivia, Willow, Autumn, Eli, Ezekiel, Jett, Sage and Cash
41. He and Denise had Olivia and Eli
42. They adopted Willow and Autumn from China
43. Two younger sons, Ezekiel and Jett
44. They are from his relationship with Kirsten Elin
45. Who was his line producer on commercials for some time
46. Zack Snyder and Deborah adopted Sage and Cash during the course of making Man of Steel
47. On March 12, 2017, his daughter Autumn, committed suicide
48. This prompted Snyder to withdraw from post-production work on Justice League
49. This happenned in May 2017
50. He wanted to be with his family