After 20 years, Zack Snyder is finally ready to make The Last Photograph.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, production is set to begin later this month on the war drama movie, which Snyder has been developing since the mid-2000s, with Colombia, Iceland, and Los Angeles among the filming locations. Stuart Martin and Fra Fee, both of whom previously appeared in Snyder’s Rebel Moon duology, will star in the feature. Don’t expect a blockbuster budget for The Last Photograph, as sources indicate this will be more of an indie film.
What Is The Last Photograph About?
Here’s a logline for The Last Photograph: “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.”
Snyder is producing with creative partner and wife Deborah Snyder and Wesley Coller via their Stone Quarry banner. The filmmaker has also lined up his composers: Hans Zimmer, Steven Doar, and Omer Benyamin. Kurt Johnstad (300, Rebel Moon) wrote the screenplay for The Last Photograph, based on a story by Snyder.
“The idea of taking camera in hand and simply making a movie in an intimate way is very appealing to me,” Snyder said in a statement. “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.”
No distributor has been set yet for The Last Photograph. We’ll keep you posted.
Are you excited to see Snyder step away from blockbuster filmmaking to direct a smaller, more intimate movie?
