Zachary Edward Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American filmmaker. He made his feature film debut in 2004 with Dawn of the Dead, a remake of the 1978 horror film of the same name. Since then, he has directed or produced a number of comic book and superhero films, including 300 (2006) and Watchmen (2009), as well as the Superman film that started the DC Extended Universe, Man of Steel (2013), and its follow-ups, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017), the latter of which had a director’s cut released in 2021. He also directed the animated film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010), the psychological action film Sucker Punch (2011), the zombie heist film Army of the Dead (2021), and the two-part space opera films Rebel Moon (2023) and Rebel Moon\u2014Part Two: The Scargiver (2024).<\/p>\n
In 2004, he founded the production company The Stone Quarry (formerly known as Cruel and Unusual Films) alongside his wife Deborah Snyder and producing partner Wesley Coller.<\/p>\n
Description above from the Wikipedia article Zack Snyder, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The complete Snarkive personnel file on Zack Snyder. Known for their work in Directing, discover their full filmography, biography, and career highlights. All the essentials, none of the fluff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1000060777,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"character":[],"snarkive_curation":[],"job-type":[],"job":[867],"keyword":[],"class_list":["post-1000060720","person","type-person","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","job-executive-producer"],"acf":{"person_profile_image":1000060777,"person_profile_image_source":{"label":"Person Profile Image","type":"image","formatted_value":1000060777},"tmdb_id":"15217","tmdb_id_source":{"label":"TMDB ID","type":"text","formatted_value":"15217"},"imdb_id":"nm0811583","imdb_id_source":{"label":"IMDb ID","type":"text","formatted_value":"nm0811583"},"birthday":"1966-03-01","birthday_source":{"label":"Birthday","type":"date_picker","formatted_value":"March 1, 1966"},"deathday":null,"deathday_source":{"label":"Deathday","type":"date_picker","formatted_value":null},"place_of_birth":"Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA","place_of_birth_source":{"label":"Place of Birth","type":"text","formatted_value":"Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA"},"gender":"2: Male","gender_source":{"label":"Gender","type":"radio","formatted_value":"2: Male"},"known_for_department":"Directing","known_for_department_source":{"label":"Known For Department","type":"text","formatted_value":"Directing"},"filmography":[1000060690,1000060786],"filmography_source":{"label":"Filmography","type":"relationship","formatted_value":[{"ID":1000060690,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2025-12-16 15:04:16","post_date_gmt":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","post_content":"From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.","post_title":"Suicide Squad (2016)","post_excerpt":"Snarkive deep-dive on Suicide Squad (2016). Worst. Heroes. Ever. Get cast info, trailers, and reviews. Is it Legendary\ud83c\udfc6 or Should we Burn it?\ud83d\udd25 We've got the unfiltered details.","post_status":"pending","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","post_password":"","post_name":"","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-12-16 15:04:16","post_modified_gmt":"2025-12-16 21:04:16","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/?post_type=movie&p=1000060690","menu_order":0,"post_type":"movie","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":1000060786,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2025-12-16 15:57:49","post_date_gmt":"2025-12-16 21:57:49","post_content":"Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.","post_title":"The Suicide Squad (2021)","post_excerpt":"Snarkive deep-dive on The Suicide Squad (2021). They\u2019re dying to save the world. Get cast info, trailers, and reviews. Is it Legendary\ud83c\udfc6 or Should we Burn it?\ud83d\udd25 We've got the unfiltered details.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-suicide-squad-2021","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-12-17 23:41:12","post_modified_gmt":"2025-12-18 05:41:12","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/?post_type=movie&p=1000060786","menu_order":0,"post_type":"movie","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"characters_played":[],"characters_played_source":{"label":"Characters Played","type":"taxonomy","formatted_value":false},"person_related_editorials":null,"person_related_editorials_source":{"label":"Person Related Editorials","type":"relationship","formatted_value":null},"person_homepage":"https:\/\/vero.co\/zacksnyder","person_homepage_source":{"label":"Homepage","type":"url","formatted_value":"https:\/\/vero.co\/zacksnyder"},"twitter_id":"ZackSnyder","twitter_id_source":{"label":"Twitter ID","type":"text","formatted_value":"ZackSnyder"},"facebook_id":"","facebook_id_source":{"label":"Facebook ID","type":"text","formatted_value":""},"instagram_id":"zacksnyder","instagram_id_source":{"label":"Instagram ID","type":"text","formatted_value":"zacksnyder"}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/person\/1000060720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000060720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/person\/1000060720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000060749,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/person\/1000060720\/revisions\/1000060749"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/movie\/1000060786"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/movie\/1000060690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1000060777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000060720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000060720"},{"taxonomy":"character","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcharacter&post=1000060720"},{"taxonomy":"snarkive_curation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fsnarkive_curation&post=1000060720"},{"taxonomy":"job-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjob-type&post=1000060720"},{"taxonomy":"job","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fjob&post=1000060720"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinesist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyword&post=1000060720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}