After years of playing around in fantasy and sci-fi genres, Zack Snyder appears to be taking a drastic change with his next movie. Snyder has almost exclusively directed genre fare over his entire career. After starting with the brilliant horror remake of Dawn of the Dead, he moved on to comic book adaptations of Frank Miller’s 300 and Alan Moore’s Watchmen. He followed up with an animated fantasy movie called Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole and the wild fantasy movie Sucker Punch. That led to the DCEU, another zombie movie in Army of the Dead, and the sci-fi epic Rebel Moon. His next movie is his first actual non-fantastical drama.

According to Discussing Film on X, Zack Snyder’s next film is called The Last Photograph, and the synopsis is as follows: “The film follows a man searching for his missing niece & nephew after the murders of their parents. The only man who can help him is a photographer who saw the killers.” That said, this is Zack Snyder, and it sounds like he might find a way to add some supernatural aspects to the story.

The main character is an ex-DEA operative, and he is searching for his niece and nephew in the South American mountains with the help of a washed-up, junkie war photographer who witnessed the murders. However, a previous synopsis also states that the man will confront his past as his journey “blurs the line between reality and the surreal.” Regardless, this sounds nothing like Zack Snyder has ever done before. The post also included a pair of photographs of the two leading cast members, Stuart Martin and Fra Fee.

What Can Fans Expect From Zack Snyder’s Next Movie

First look at Zack Snyder’s next film ‘THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH’

The film follows man searching for his missing niece & nephew after the murders of their parents. The only man who can help him is a photographer who saw the killers. pic.twitter.com/o1YuYagujF

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) December 28, 2025

Zack Snyder has wanted to make this movie since the mid-2000s, based on the script written by Kurt Johnstad. In 2011, it was reported that both Christian Bale and Sean Penn were attached to star in the film, so that indicates the story was at least good enough for actors of their caliber. Finally, after almost two decades, Snyder got the movie greenlit with the two new cast members in the lead roles.

If anything, this will look like a Zack Snyder movie because he is listed as the director and cinematographer, so it will at least keep up the aesthetic that his fans have grown to love. This is the biggest difference, because Snyder said he wanted to make this movie himself, telling Deadline that he wanted to approach the “idea of taking camera in hand and simply making a movie in an intimate way.” He also calls it a “meditation of life and death” and said it follows some of the “trials that I have experienced in my own life.”

However, if Zack Snyder’s fans have proven anything, they will not support all his projects, as they mostly turned their backs on Rebel Moon, and the response to Army of the Dead was lukewarm, despite it being an entertaining zombie movie. What The Last Photograph does is move Snyder further away from the DC movies that his fans remain overly obsessed with. Snyder finished shooting the film in November 2025, and he has Hans Zimmer working on the score. Zimmer also scored Snyder’s Man of Steel and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.

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