I think there’s some truth to the idea that director Zack Snyder is currently the most interviewed man on Earth. The guy is everywhere, talking about projects both real (Army of the Dead, Zack Snyder’s Justice League) and as-yet theoretical, which we’ll get to.
But maybe the biggest splash he’s made was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he debuted his dark, gritty reboot of the easy-going talk show.” Behold:
Snyder is a good sport here, gleefully making fun of himself for all the indulgences people ding him for, from the slo-mo shots to the excessive run times of his movies (“the whole episode is 16 hours and 47 minutes”) to the overdone line readings. That’s why I’m not going to read too much into the final bit, where Snyder turns to the camera and delivers a quick, “Suck it, Warner Bros.”
There has been a lot of water under the bridge between Snyder and the studio. “It was cool to do the Snyder Cut of Justice League and that was fun and everything,” the director recently told Uproxx. “But Warner Bros. still tortured me the whole time for whatever reason, they can’t help it. I don’t know why I’m such a f*cking pain in their ass because I’m not trying to be, honestly.”
On the other hand, Warner Bros. did pony up tens of millions of dollars to make the Snyder Cut happen in the first place. Theirs is a complicated relationship.
Zack Snyder wants to cross Star Wars with Seven Samurai and King Arthur with the Old West
Beyond the Warners drama, Snyder is out here talking about lots of projects he’s done, hopes to do, or still nurses dreams of doing. For instance, did you know that he once talked to Disney about making a Star Wars movie inspired by the classic Arkia Kurosawa film Seven Samurai? This would be shortly after Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012. “We talked about it, but it never [happened],” Snyder said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I’ve been working on it away from the Star Wars universe, on my own, as a sci-fi thing…It’s still a sci-fi thing. It’s the same story. Now, I’m just going to let Star Wars be Star Wars...The 11-year-old me still wants to make that, and now, I know how to. So, maybe we’ll see that someday.”
Meanwhile, over on on Playlist’s The Fourth Wall podcast, Snyder talked about an idea for a King Arthur movie he’d like to do, with a twist, of course:
Right now I’m in the process of writing a kind of, basically it’s just like a retelling of Excalibur, like of the Arthurian legend that’s sort of set, you know, in a different place…It’s kind of like in the sort of Gold Rush era of America, kind of weird Arthurian. But anyway, it’s cool, and I’m really kind of into it. And it’s fun, and it’s like, you know, it’s kind of crazy.
It does indeed sound fun and crazy, and is just one of apparently many projects Snyder has in the hopper. With the success of Army of the Dead, odds are we’ll see some of them come to fruition in the years to come.
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