
On May 20, 2020, Snyder announced that Zack Snyder's Justice League would be released on the streaming service HBO Max in 2021. His agreement with Netflix has since expanded into several Army of the Dead projects Army of Thieves, a prequel released in 2021, and Planet of the Dead, a sequel to be created. Snyder directed and produced the film with his partner and wife, Deborah Snyder, via their newly rebranded production company, The Stone Quarry. On January 29, 2019, Snyder announced that he had signed on to helm Army of the Dead, a zombie heist thriller, for Netflix. Snyder directed Warner Bros.' 2017 Justice League, but he exited during post-production to deal with the death of his daughter, Autumn Snyder. Snyder directed, Cavill reprised his role as Superman, and Ben Affleck played Batman. He directed 2013's Man of Steel for Warner Bros., a reboot of the Superman franchise and the jumpstart to the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) and produced the prequel/sequel to 300, 300: Rise of an Empire (2014).ĭuring Comic Con 2013, Snyder announced that Batman and Superman would share the screen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, released in 2016. The film, based on a script written by Snyder and Steve Shibuya, was about a young woman in a mental hospital who fantasizes of escape with her fellow inmates. Snyder produced, co-wrote, and directed Sucker Punch, which was released on March 25, 2011.

His follow-up project/animation debut, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, was released on September 24, 2010. film Watchmen was released on March 6, 2009, and grossed $185 million worldwide. Snyder made his feature film debut with the remake of the horror film Dawn of the Dead (2004), and scored a box office hit with the fantasy war film 300 (2006), adapted from writer-artist Frank Miller's Dark Horse Comics miniseries of the same name. The production notes for Snyder's first film Dawn of the Dead describes Snyder as "a comic book and horror film enthusiast in his youth". Afterward, Snyder attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Snyder studied painting a year after high school at Heatherley School of Fine Art in England, although he had already begun filmmaking. Snyder attended Camp Owatonna in Harrison, Maine, during the summer months as a child. He also had a brother, Sam, who died when Snyder was a teenager. He has an older sister, Audrey, and was raised as a Christian Scientist. His father, Charles Edward "Ed" Snyder, worked as an executive recruiter.

2010), was a painter and a photography teacher at Daycroft School, which Snyder later attended.

His mother, Marsha Manley ( née Reeves d. Snyder was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and raised in Riverside, Connecticut.
