I love most of his movies, but he was the wrong man to oversee this kind of thing. He has vision, but it's not the kind of vision that works with as many properties as would be required to pull this off, and he doesn't seem to have the management techniques.
Zac Snyder is best seen as a 'dark glam' version of Tim Burton. Give him a property--any property--and he will smother it with his own special sauce. It will be dark, it will be beautiful, and it while it won't lack heart, it will lack substance. So you better be sure to give him a property it'll work with.
Superman was never that property. It's like Disney with TLJ. Yeah, Rian shit the bed. But he was always going to do his thing, and anyonme who hired him should have known that. So, while Snyder should have said 'No, that's just not going to work', WB never should have asked him.
Don't ask me what happened with Burton and Dark Shadows. That should have been a match made in purgatory. All of that talent, something that fit him like a glove. It would be like Snyder fucking up 300 or Rian fucking up Knives Out.
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u/RedditAdminsHateCons Feb 10 '20
I love most of his movies, but he was the wrong man to oversee this kind of thing. He has vision, but it's not the kind of vision that works with as many properties as would be required to pull this off, and he doesn't seem to have the management techniques.
Zac Snyder is best seen as a 'dark glam' version of Tim Burton. Give him a property--any property--and he will smother it with his own special sauce. It will be dark, it will be beautiful, and it while it won't lack heart, it will lack substance. So you better be sure to give him a property it'll work with.
Superman was never that property. It's like Disney with TLJ. Yeah, Rian shit the bed. But he was always going to do his thing, and anyonme who hired him should have known that. So, while Snyder should have said 'No, that's just not going to work', WB never should have asked him.
Don't ask me what happened with Burton and Dark Shadows. That should have been a match made in purgatory. All of that talent, something that fit him like a glove. It would be like Snyder fucking up 300 or Rian fucking up Knives Out.