Zack Snyder Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED

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hi i'm zack snyder and today i'm doing the wired auto complete interview i do not google myself uh googling myself would be a dangerous activity all right so uh what zack snyder doing now oh and i answer it i'm google uh well i'm hanging out at the house with my kids doing school washing my cars that's pretty much it all right i'm gonna do another one what is zack snyder directing style wow directing is like the managing of an idea right so if you have an idea you have to manage the actors and the photography and stuff i have a pretty casual style with my people i work with because i just tend to like human beings and i want them to be happy so i don't torture him too much that's kind of how i do it let's try another one of these things oh i ripped it so you can't see what is zack snyder known for right now i'm known for um justice league i suppose people's exact snyder justice league i i did that to myself unfortunately people would think i was known for slow motion i like slow motion i don't really like slow motion that much if you do a percentage of slow motion in my movies i would think you'd find that it's one percent or something like that i i know someone's analyzing it right now and they're gonna say no it's 50 so yeah i don't know what i'm known for what is zack snyder's justice league rated for rated r4 uh i think it's rated r for violence and nudity no not nudity that would be cool you know the ratings board doesn't like it when superhero movies are violent so um second card here we go is zack snyder nice no he's a jackass i mean can you say that you are nice i don't know that people are allowed to say that i think you'd have to ask someone but i like to think that i'm relatively nice is zack snyder related to scott snyder sadly no because he's a genius but no we're not related his zack snyder and auteur [Laughter] i think i'm gonna leave that up to the audience to decide is zack snyder a packer fan yes zack snyder's a huge packer fan i'm the same age as the lombardi trophy i was born in the first super bowl year and therefore i am kind of a personification of the super bowl pretty much grew up in green bay and my dad you know went to the ice bowl game i would love to make a vince lombardi movie at some point that's a fact how zack snyder how did zack snyder become a director it's a good question well i started making movies when i was around 11 years old i saw a movie called star wars i don't know if you're familiar with it my mom bought me a movie camera super a movie camera she started shooting movies and then when i got into high school i would make about a movie a year with my friends a big movie we'd make a bunch of smaller movies but i always make one big project a year we did like kind of a my version of apocalypse now and then i did another black and white film and i went to film school and then yeah how is zack snyder how is zack snyder cut different i don't know because i never saw the theatrical version of justice league so i don't know how it's different but i'm sure it is how to watch zack snyder how to watch the snyder cut there's a lot of different ways you can watch it it's divided into chapters so of course you can watch it piece by piece i say the best way to watch it is with an intermission after all the king's horses which is one of the chapters about two hours and 20 minutes into the movie this chapter will come up you pause it you go to the bathroom you get your chips or whatever you're eating and you watch the rest of the movie so that's how i would do it i appreciate everyone's personal styles when it comes to watching the movie how to watch zack snyder army of the dead well first of all netflix or in a theater for a week before it comes out you're never going to want to stop it it's too insane so yeah i would say you just sit and enjoy okay why zack snyder why zack snyder is best at what okay well that's just a great search if someone's doing that search why zack snyder is famous i i'm not sure and weirdly i was getting a copy on the way down here and i had my mascot and everything and this girl leaned out of the car and she goes my dad said you look like zack snyder and i said i am zack snyder and she was like we just saw justice league it's awesome and i was like you're nerds by the way just so you know if you recognize me with a mask on you're you're you're nerds but that's cool i love nerds so it's cool why zack snyder tattoos why do i have tattoos they're all sort of related to my kids and my family so you know that's kind of cliche but it's fun why is zack snyder zombies i think the great thing about zombies is like they're very sort of post-modern it's like what if the monster was just society you know and that's kind of fun so who zack snyder so this is a i'm getting it now i'm getting it now each one's slightly different who is zack snyder's wife oh deborah snyder a genius producer and manager of my insanity oh no i revealed two at once i won't look at that one who is zack snyder it's kind of everything we've been talking about at the end of this whole thing you can kind of glue it together and figure out kind of what i'm about who is the villain in zack snyder's justice league who's the real villain it's darkseid really i mean i think you could get a sense that steppenwolf is the bad guy but he's also kind of likable in a weird way you know he's just he's just trying to get home who is zack snyder his favorite director that's a really good question you know probably john borman is my favorite director i'm a huge fan a talented filmmaker who tells like really mythic stories and i'm into that so does zack snyder so does zack snyder let's not tear it off have instagram i do not have an instagram and i'll tell you why full disclosure uh that i am a um brand ambassador of vero which is the social media platform that i uh prefer although i do have a twitter account it's probably this next question does zack snyder have a brother well yes i had a brother he sadly passed away when i was in my teens but he was a huge influence on me in the high school i went to in the boarding school i went to there was a sam snyder award amazing guy so um yes does zack snyder write comics write comics i have not written a comic i should so maybe after this i'll go write a comic note to self write a comic and then does zack snyder like marvel i do like marvel i like marvel movies and i like marvel comics the hulk has always been one of my favorites forever and iron man the answer is yes i do like marvel okay i made a mess you