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People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story.
Zack Snyder
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Zack Snyder
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: March 1
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Zachary Edward Snyder
Zachary Edward Zack Snyder
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don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.
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My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction.
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I used to be a huge fan of Heavy Metal magazine growing up, and I was exposed to Cobalt there and fell in love with the character and the world. I've tried to track it down and pursue it myself to make a movie out of it. Also I felt like the thing that's cool about Cobalt is it does have a culty kind of underground quality to it that I really like.
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I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.
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