Christopher Nolan thinks that every recent superhero movie has in some way been influenced by Zack Snyder.
“There’s no superhero science-fiction film coming out these days where I don’t see some influence of Zack,” Nolan said when speaking with The Atlantic. “When you watch a Zack Snyder film, you see and feel his love for the potential of cinema. The potential of it to be fantastical, to be heightened in its reality, but to move you and to excite you.”
Nolan — who served as a producer on 2013’s Man of Steel, which Snyder directed — previously praised Snyder’s Watchmen adaptation from 2009. He told The Hollywood Reporter, “I’ve always believed Watchmen was ahead of its time,” Nolan said in an email. “The idea of a superhero team, which it so brilliantly subverts, wasn’t yet a thing in movies. It would have been fascinating to see it released post-Avengers.”
In the same interview, Snyder also referred to Nolan as his “only close director friend.”
What movies has Zack Snyder made?
Zack Snyder made his directorial debut in 2004 with Dawn of the Dead, a remake of George A. Romero’s 1978 film of the same name that was written by James Gunn. He then adapted Frank Miller and Lynn Varley’s 300 into a feature film in 2007 before making Watchmen in 2009.
He followed that with 2010’s Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole and 2011’s Sucker Punch before he formerly began launching the DCEU for Warner Bro. when helming Man of Steel. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice followed in 2016, which was followed by 2017’s Justice League (which he partially directed) and 2021’s Zack Snyder’s Justice League.
Following his exit from DC, Snyder made Army of the Dead for Netflix in 2021. His most recent film, Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, was just recently released on Netflix, while a sequel, Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, is scheduled to release on April 19, 2024.
