Zack Snyder

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q139890: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Dawn of the Dead (2004); 300 (2006); Watchmen (2009); Man of Steel (2013); Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016); Justice League (2017); Batman v Superman / Snyder's DC films; Snyder Cut (Justice League); Zack Snyder's Justice League (the Snyder cut).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

The Social Network (2010): 2 lines

  1. theme (character template) · through Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), which they directed: The Social Network ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the maker said so). Snyder's reported reasoning: the modern-day Lex Luthor would be Mark Zuckerberg.
    “yeah, the modern day Lex Luthor would be Mark Zuckerberg.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:44:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (casting led to) · through Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), which they directed: The Social Network ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the host's read). Snyder offered Eisenberg Jimmy Olsen in BvS in the wake of The Social Network.
    “Zack Snyder offers, uh, Jimmy Olsen. to Jesse Eisenberg in the wake of this movie, for BVS.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:43:43 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Dave Gibbons: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Watchmen (2009), which they directed: Dave Gibbons ⇒ Watchmen (the host's read). Gibbons' same-size panels made the Watchmen comic a structural feat, which Snyder followed faithfully in the film.
    “and, you know, he was able to, uh, I mean, Dave Gibbons is one of the great comic book illustrators, but is a very low key sort of British style that all the panels in the book were the same size.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:06:11 · David Shoemaker (0.55 sure it was them)

Gone Girl (2014): 1 line

  1. people (led to casting) · through Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), which they directed: Gone Girl ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the host's read). While making Gone Girl, Affleck reportedly joked to his agent that he needed a heroic-chin movie after the evil-chin one.
    “the joke was the chin things in the script, he calls up his agent, while making Gone Girl, and says, like, I'm doing the evil chin movie now, you got to find me a heroic chin movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 1:06:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Max Landis: 1 line

  1. people (performance model) · through Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), which they directed: Max Landis ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the host's read). David's pet theory is that Eisenberg chose to play Max Landis as Lex Luthor.
    “It also feels like he chose to play Max Landis more than he chose to play.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:44:48 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

The Judge (2014): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through Man of Steel (2013), which they directed: Man of Steel ⇒ The Judge (the host's read). The tornado father-son fight echoes the father-son tornado scene in Man of Steel, another Warner Bros. film.
    “an homage to everyone's favorite father son scene from Man of Steel.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:20:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (16) everyone in directing

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Zack Snyder. Jason frames the Watchmen adaptation (Snyder) as the literal-panel approach to comics that Scott Pilgrim avoids.
    “loses the magic of the of the book.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:12:04 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Watchmen → Zack Snyder. Snyder's Watchmen was his favorite of his superhero efforts, helped by being faithful to a single finite graphic novel.
    “that's my favorite Zack Snyder superhero endeavor for sure.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:06:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Zack Snyder → Justice League. Snyder's approach to a speedster: lightning effects and cranked-up slow-mo.
    “Snyder does his super cranked up thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:33:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Zack Snyder → Justice League. Fennessey ties the stormy shared look of earlier DC films to Zack Snyder, which DC is now abandoning.
    “the same kind of stormy visual aesthetic that Zack Snyder created”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:08:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Zack Snyder → James Gunn. Snyder's Dawn of the Dead is his best movie in retrospect, largely thanks to Gunn's script.
    “Which is Zack Snyder's best movie, you realize in retrospect, largely because of how good the gun script is.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:36:54 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice → Zack Snyder. BvS underperformed because Snyder's vision is specific and does not cross over to kids.
    “BVS does not make a $1000000000, which it should objectively.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:13:24 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

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