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Warner Bros. didn't understand Zack Snyder's pitch for 300. They thought it was too similar to other recent sword and sandals movies like Troy. So he convinced them to let him make this proof of concept. "Then they said 'ok, we're going to give you some money. Not a lot. A small amount. To go and film a scene from the movie.' I really just wanted to show them the style of the world rather than a specific moment from the script to say 'this is the world it takes place in,' so we did this little sort of 360 degree shot of a Spartan fighting some Persian soldiers."
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As a safety measure on the set of Army of the Dead, Zack Snyder had prop master Brett Andrews design customized airsoft guns, replacing many components with authentic gun parts. In 'Army of the Dead: The Making of the Film' book, Andrews says it wasn't only safer, but also faster to film, and far more budget friendly. With over 900,000 rounds of airsoft ammunition during production, Andrews said "the math works out to something "ludicrous" compared to traditional blank-fire guns.
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That time Tom Cruise called Zack Snyder to congratulate him on 300's opening weekend box office . "Everyone was pretty confident, but they weren't really sure. I mean, I think it was 70 something million dollars it made in its opening weekend. "And I was shooting a TV commercial the day, that Sunday morning in downtown LA, and I got a call from Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise called me to say congratulations, okay, had nothing to do with the movie, didn't work at Warner Brothers. "I'd met him once over at his house to talk about cuz he'd seen the trailer for 300 was like this is awesome. And I just kind of tell him how he did it and everything was really, he's a sort of student of cinema and student film. "So he really wanted to know what this was. And he's the one that called me and said like '$70 million opening weekend. Congratulations, that's awesome!' "I was like, 'thanks Tom.'"
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"...I was with the director, Adam McKay...and we said 'let's go see Dawn of the Dead,' "About five minutes in we just turned to each other and went, did we just stumble into the coolest fucking movie I've ever seen in my life? Which I always follow with, 'there's nothing in this movie I'm capable of doing.'"
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"I mean, obviously Love Actually is my favorite Christmas movie because that is just the best Christmas movie, probably." "Favorite character?" "I would say… the Liam Neeson storyline, only because the “let’s go get the sh!t kicked out of us by love” moment is probably, you know… everyone gets a little weepy."
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James Cameron once said Zack Snyder is one of his cinematic inspirations. "I certainly have studied the masters, you know David Lean, Hitchcock, Kubrick, you know everybody.. "Directors that continue to inspire me, Ridley Scott, I mean I'll go to see any Ridley Scott movie, even the ones that bomb to me are great because of the fabric of the filmmaking, you know just the way he sees, the way he places the camera and so on. "And I'm out there going to school every day. I think any good filmmaker is out there going to school. I'm also inspired by, these are established filmmakers now, but I remember being very inspired by them when they first kind of broke on the scene like Zack Snyder and Robert Rodriguez, guys that were just creating their own new cinematic language, you know. So I can be inspired by somebody whose name I don't even know."
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Gal Gadot shared her screen test with Ben Affleck for Batman v Superman: "Twelve years ago today, I was cast as Wonder Woman. What a wild, life-changing ride with a character I love so much. I thought it would be fun to share my camera test with Ben — I watched it last night for the first time 😜 Zack Snyder thank you for sharing this with me and for casting me as Diana Prince. 🙅🏻♀️♥️" (Gal Gadot - IG)
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"Is there one that got away, is there a no that you above everything else, really regret?" "...300...That was like a story my grandmother used to tell me as a kid, she always told me Greek myth stories. She was a classics professor, and I was so close to it that I thought we should do it for real, and I saw this comic book, the Miller book, and I thought, 'Oh come on. You can't do it like that.'" "Does it make you feel better, I did too. Because we had Zack Snyder off of Dawn of the Dead. And we had a book that we were developing in the same space with another prominent filmmaker, and we felt like we couldn't do it. "'Ridley Scott should do it! Ridley Scott should do it like Gladiator!'" "It wasn't obvious, and I mean kudos to you guys because it wasn't obvious until it was obvious, right?" "At the time when Zack Snyder came in, I said 'Okay, are there swords in this movie, yes. Are there sandals, arrows, yes, shields, yes.' I said, 'Come on, we just did Troy 20 minutes ago. How could we do that?'" And we took partners in it."
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Part of Zack Snyder's 300 pitch to Warner Bros. Included a 300 motion comic narrated by Scott Glenn. "So the first thing we did was we took the book and we scanned it into the computer. We photoshopped out all the dialogue. Kurt and I wrote a script..." "And a friend of ours, this actor named Scott Glenn, he was kind enough to come down and do a little awesome voiceover to make it cool."
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Zack Snyder: "When you make a movie, a lot of times you take a second camera, and if the actors are talking, you stick a second camera in there to try and get a close up or something like that to make it move along faster. "That second camera normally suffers a little bit in its composition design just because it's not the primary focus, but for this movie, it's a one camera show." Larry Fong: "His shots are so designed, so it's hard to kind of get a B camera just somewhere to get another shot. He won't use it. When you're doing 180 degree dolly moves and stuff, I mean, where do you put the other camera? "It's great for me because that means I can make each shot the way I want it to without compromising, which you usually do when you have two."
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Zack Snyder's director's cuts aren't only the superior versions of his movies, but they're also way more financially successful. He says Batman v Superman's Ultimate Cut accounted for around 75% of DVD sales and Zack Snyder's Justice League might not exist if the Ultimate Edition weren't released.
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"The one thing I do want to say is that we got the Frank Miller American Genius documentary will be available to rent or buy on August 11th, pre-ordered on Apple TV, so go do that immediately...And also, I want to say a huge thank you, not just for this moment with Frank, but then I owe, you know, a ton of what I've done in my career to Frank. You know, a lot of my point of view, a lot of my views of mythology have been shaped by the work that he's done, so just huge thanks from me sincerely to you, brother. Like, again, not worthy, so thank you again. And thanks guys for listening. Thank you all."
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Costume designer Michael Wilkinson describes changes being made to an earlier version of Henry Cavill's Superman suit after a camera test behind the scenes of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel. "So what we're looking at here is the Superman suit from the second camera test. And the notes we got back from that we're going to make a few adjustments for our next camera test. "We decided that we didn't like this central shape so we've cut that out. We've made a few adjustments to these lines here to act like the idea that it had a more geometric, slightly harder, stronger line through here, a little bit like the cut lines of the human anatomy. "We're making our buckle a little bit bigger. And in general we're just adjusting the thickness of a lot of these pieces so it really feels like they're more integrated with the suit that they just sort of are like almost like an embossing. "And with just some general R&D work that we're doing with the way that the cape attaches to the suit, there's a lot going on here. "You're trying to make something beautiful and sculptural disappear into an impossibly thin membrane here and make it all look as beautiful as possible because we're going to be really close up for a lot of the movies so we're spending a lot of time and resources in getting that right. "It definitely pays respect to the classical details of the Superman costume but we're rendering it in a very high-tech current kind of a process."
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Before #ZackSnyder got involved, #Watchmen was almost a VERY different movie. "When I first got the script...it was a PG-13 movie, it was 2-hours long, it was sequel-able... "Adrian dies - killed by Nite Owl at the end - very little Manhattan, very little of Comedian's funeral. "It's just Rorschach - no interrogation- you know, these are things that were, like, that was the movie. "Super clean Hollywood movie...It was updated to the War on Terror. All that stuff was real. At that time it wasn't exactly the War on Terror, it was just updated to modern time. That was the one note that I had been given. Saying like 'we love the script, we wish it was War on Terror rather than just a modern conflict'. "When I turned them back in a 1985, R-rated, long script...The studio did the opposite that you would think Hollywood would do."
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Zack Snyder discusses virtual production technology with the Russo Bros. and explains why he chose to build practical sets for Rebel Moon: "The idea of this sort of virtual production that's really interesting is that it does come back around. The green screen environment is an exclusive world, right? "Like there's not a lot of guys that can make a movie with no sets. Because as it is now, there's a thousand visual effects artists between that green screen and it being in your movie. "In the virtual production version, anybody who walks in there with a camera... The desert is there. And they can go and film it. So in a lot of ways it's kind of... it demystifies visual effects a little bit. "The thing that I've always found a little off-putting about a big green screen environment is it's not really engaging for anybody. Even for us, even for the filmmakers. We've been looking at the concept, we know what it is. "And the actors especially are like, 'I don't know where the hell I am.' Like, 'I guess... Okay, whatever you guys say, I'll do it.'" Anthony Russo: "But for camera operators too, right? It's just like there's nothing to grab on to." Snyder: "Yeah, I don't know, tilt up to the mountain. What mountain?" Joe Russo: "No, no, it's a little higher." Snyder: "Yeah, exactly. I think it's a small mountain. "Anyway, but I do think that the introduction of this kind of virtual productions as a concept really brings sort of physicality back to visual effects. And sort of a fantastic world. "You really can, you know, you can feel it and see it. They can put Atmos in, it can really feel like you're in a place. Which is really just... You're more passionate about it, you know, filming it. "Like I did a small thing that we were just really more of an experiment. And I was really fascinated by like, you know, they're like, 'Okay, here's, we have a cave set with light shafts coming through these holes in the ceiling.' And then we were like, literally, you know, 'Okay, now we're in like this forest.' "And it was the same rocks, but suddenly they didn't look like- they worked in both spots. It was just, I was like, 'Wow, this is really...' And even the focus and everything, the wall understood the depth of field as well. "So like everything, like especially in the eyepiece was like, 'Wow, that's scary.' That's like, feels like I'm there. So I think there's huge potential and hugely exciting future for that technology. "You know, as it becomes more available to like, and also scale, I think, you know, from this to like also being able to have, you know, 100 guys standing around inside of, you know, a giant environment would be just, it's just cool. Which they're doing now anyway, everyone's doing it. "But what was funny, because like on the movie that we're working on now, we ended up, we took a deep dive into it. And it just, the reason why we ended up not doing it in the end was because we just, we have these big war scenes. "And I had like 100 guys, you know, and we were just like, I don't even like, the amount of French reverses I have to do, everyone's brains were exploding. "Because, you know, you're always like, I'm like, 'Oh, just flip the set again and flip the set again.' And then for his reverse, we flipped the set that way and we flipped the set that way. "And so we had to build all the, all in the design, everything was symmetrical, right? Like the bridges and the houses were kind of symmetrical. "So you could always be flipping and not tell... because the sets were all symmetrical. You could shoot them from both sides and it was kind of the same. But the audience couldn't tell because the backgrounds were not symmetrical. "So it was only the immediate stuff, you know. It was, so it was a bit of a brain teaser for everyone. And then in the end, we were like, because of the scale of the fighting, I was like, 'Oh, let's just...' "So now we're just building it up the road. "But it's cool. "It's fun to build a giant thing as well. Just to go there and like, 'Oh my God, we made a village.'
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"It's a superhero movie that is for adults and has adult ideas in it. You don't have to think about it any harder than that. It goes way deeper. If you want to, you can tear it apart like a giant onion and keep peeling it until you're at its core. "But I think that it's cool to experience it just like when I read the comic book for the first time and I didn't know. No one was telling me what it's about or the why of it. You come to it fresh. And sometimes I wish I had that experience because I would love to see the movie or read the book for the first time again because that feeling was for me awesome. "Especially when you go into something with this anticipation that it's just a Hollywood superhero movie which is what a lot of people will think because they don't know. They see some guys fighting and then when you see the film you actually have this experience of it being taken apart. "Those archetypes, those mythological shapes, whether they be Batman or Superman or any of superheroes and how they're just turned around. Whether it's through sexual fetish or fighting, actually killing guys they fight. "Stuff like that or whether it's the end of the movie and there's this moral dilemma that is the end of the movie is also challenging on all those levels."
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