Zack Snyder Wants to Direct a Fortnite Movie Despite His Wife’s Protest Against His Unhealthy Obsession
Zack Snyder is one of the most successful and well-liked filmmakers in the entertainment industry who started making comic book and superhero movies in 2007 starting with 300. He has been a part of movies including Watchmen, Man of Steel, Justice League, and more. His recent movie Rebel Moon has received mixed reviews from critics and audiences but it did not shake the belief Snyder has in the movie or the world he wants to build with it. The second of Rebel Moon is expected to be released in 2024.
The filmmaker back in 2004 alongside his wife Deborah Snyder and producing partner Wesley Coller, started a production company The Stone Quarry. Interestingly, Snyder has also directed a computer-animated movie; 2010’s Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole. The filmmaker recently asked if he’d be down to directing a movie when it comes to Fortnite. Let’s find out his answer.
Zack Snyder would ‘of course’ be down to make a Fortnite movie
Filmmaker Zack Snyder is one of the phenomenal directors who is praised by a lot of fans across the world, is also one of those filmmakers who loves video games. In a recent interview with ETalk, while promoting his recent release Rebel Moon, Snyder was asked if he’d ever consider making a movie on Fortnite. Snyder instantly replied with
“Of course. I really wanted to make some Fortnite skins for the movie Rebel Moon, first of all, just like, as the most obviously basic involvement. But yeah, look, Fortnite is an amazing world, and it is an amazing distraction for me. But it’s really cool, and the alchemy that they have created there is really unique. When I started playing it, I thought I knew what it was, and then it was something entirely different.”
The director continued,
“You definitely don’t know. You can never say never- that’s my mantra in this business.”
This is not the first time Snyder has expressed his fascination and love for Fortnite, during an interview with IGN, he said,
“My son and I got into Fortnite. I kind of wanted to play it with him, and then he didn’t like it, so then I ended up playing it by myself. I went down a bad rabbit hole with Fortnite in the sense that I took a pretty deep dive. I was Meeseeks from Rick and Morty.”
In an interview with WIRED last month, Snyder also revealed that his wife Deborah Snyder got him into changing his hobbies from playing video games; Fortnite to pottery. This was because he had been playing a little too much.
Zack Snyder talks about Rebel Moon Director’s Cut
One of the things that sets Zack Snyder apart from other directors is his love for director’s cut and Rebel Moon is no different. Ahead of the release of part one of the movie, Snyder had shared with Netflix PR’s Site that there is indeed going to be a director’s cut for Rebel Moon. He also added that the director’s cut is about an extra hour long and they filmed a couple of scenes, especially for the director’s cut.
In an interview with EW, he explained,
“It’s a full hour longer. It’s not just slightly different or a little bit more. There are big chunks of the movie that are different. A lot more stuff is fleshed out.”
His producing partner Wesley Coller also shared,
“Zack is a world-builder. He loves the layering of a world and the details of a story and the nuances of a character. His process always has him doing so much exploring what’s under the hood, not just what we see on-screen.”
Coller also added that having an opportunity to take the fresh idea and build an entire world out of it, asking questions over here, and finding answers to that over there was the most exciting part for Snyder.
Part One of Rebel Moon drops on Netflix on 22nd December 2023.
