Are there a lot of Zack Snyder fans in Canada? If so, we know where they’ll be next month. After the teaser dropped a couple of weeks ago for Snyder’s small-budget indie film, The Last Photograph, it will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival at 6:30pm on Sunday, September 13, in the John Bassett Theatre.
TIFF announced the late addition to the lineup this morning. Snyder is still seeking distribution for the jungle thriller starring Rebel Moon actors Stuart Martin and Fra Fee. Kurt Johnstad (300) wrote the screenplay. This is a movie Snyder has been trying to get done for almost two decades.
The story centers on an ex-DEA agent who searches the South American mountains for his missing niece and nephew after their parents are murdered. With the help of a war photographer who witnessed the killers, he confronts his past as their journey blurs the line between reality and the surreal.
Snyder is doing the cinematography himself, as he did with back-to-back Rebel Moon movies and Army of the Dead. The great Hans Zimmer contributed to the score.
This move is clearly designed to help The Last Photograph find a buyer for distribution. That begs the question, does anyone really want to see Snyder do a low-budget movie, with a cost said to be around $10M? I’m not sure there’s much appetite for that, but good reviews out of TIFF could change that.
