So what’s next for Zack Snyder following the spectacular two-part fail Rebel Moon? He’s going in a totally different direction, reviving his long-gestating war drama The Last Photograph. This is a film he’s been trying to get off the ground since 2011, and it’s much smaller in scope than anything we’ve seen from the director.
THR reports Snyder will reunite with Rebel Moon actors Stuart Martin and Fra Fee, who will take the lead roles in The Last Photograph. Christian Bale and Sean Penn were attached when the project was first coming together, which should tell you how long it’s been brewing.
Originally, the film was to follow events during the Afghan War, but that has since been changed to South America. Snyder’s frequent collaborator Kurt Johnstad wrote the screenplay.
Here’s the updated synopsis: “An ex-DEA operative must return to the mountains of South America in an effort to find his missing niece and nephew, following the brutal murders of their diplomat parents. Enlisting the help of a washed-up junkie war photographer, the only person to have seen the face of the killers, he sets out, determined to find the children and the truth, but soon learns he must also face the ghosts of his past. Their journey into the unknown takes them further and further away from civilization, bringing into question everything they believe, while slowly eroding the distinction between real and surreal.”
In an official statement on the news, Snyder said “The idea of taking camera in hand and simply making a movie in an intimate way is very appealing to me. ‘The Last Photograph’ is a meditation of life and death, embodying some of the trials that I have experienced in my own life and the exploration of those ideas through image making.”
This will put on the back burner Snyder’s UFC film Brawler that he’s been developing with Dana White and loads of Saudi cash.
