Zack Snyder says there’s both a DC and Marvel project he’d consider directing if they were offered to him.
Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Snyder said that he’s largely looking to step away from superhero movies now that James Gunn and Peter Safran are rebooting the DCEU into a new DCU that launches in 2024.
“We’ve been on the treadmill — it has not evolved,” Snyder said. “I don’t have the excitement for it that I used to have.”
While he’s now focusing on his upcoming Rebel Moon space opera, Snyder admitted there are a couple of projects that could potentially bring him back to the superhero world. If Gunn called him and invited him back to DC Studios, for example, Snyder said he’d consider doing an adaptation of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, just so long as it’s “a true representation of the graphic novel.”
For Marvel, Snyder said he’d potentially be interested in adapting Miller and Lynn Valley’s Elektra Lives Again. “But that’s it,” Snyder added.
Would Zack Snyder ever make a Star Wars movie?
As for Star Wars, Snyder said he wasn’t interested and that “those guys have a handle on the brand.”
Rebel Moon was initially pitched as a Star Wars project to Lucasfilm around the time 2013’s Man of Steel was in postproduction. Disney bought out the Lucasfilm a few months later, though, and the discussions fell through.
“[Deborah Snyder, Zack’s wife and producing partner] never wanted this to go to Lucasfilm,” Snyder said. “‘You think you have a hard time with DC? You think you’re mad at them because they won’t let you do what you want? What do you think Star Wars is going to be?’ When it fell apart, she was like, ‘This is the best thing that could have happened to you.’”
Rebel Moon, also known as Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, is now getting a limited theatrical release on December 15, 2023, before it hits Netflix on December 22, 2023. A sequel, Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, is planned for April 19, 2024.
