Zack Snyder to Direct ‘The Last Photograph’

The movie, which follows a former DEA agent hunting for missing relatives, is a longstanding passion project for the director, with cameras set to roll.

Director Zack Snyder and producer Deborah Snyder at Next on Netflix Animation Preview. Photo: Netflix.

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Zack Snyder will finally get to make ‘The Last Photograph’.
He has cast ‘Rebel Moon’s Fra Fee and Stuart Martin in the movie.
It follows an ex-DEA agent hunting for missing family members.

Having put aside his giant ‘Rebel Moon’ sci-fi franchise for now, Zack Snyder is taking time to finally put something more personal before the cameras.

Deadline reports that the director is getting ready to start production on longstanding passion project ‘The Last Photograph’.

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But he hasn’t entirely forgotten ‘Rebel Moon’, as two of the actors from that movie –– Fra Fee and Stuart Martin –– are aboard to lead ‘The Last Photograph’.

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What’s the story of ‘The Last Photograph’?

Director Zack Snyder at Next on Netflix Animation Preview. Photo: Netflix.

With a story crafted by Snyder and veteran collaborator Kurt Johnstad (the latter wrote the actual screenplay), ‘The Last Photograph’ follows an ex-DEA operative who 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.

Here’s Snyder telling Deadline what the movie means to him:

“The idea of taking camera in hand and simply making a movie in an intimate way is very appealing to me. ‘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.”

Snyder, working alongside producing partner/wife Deborah Snyder and fellow producer Wesley Coller, has wrangled together the funding for this one partly thanks to a tax incentive based in Colombia. The movie will shoot in the country as well as Iceland and Los Angeles.

With a score to be written by Hans Zimmer, Steven Doar and Omer Benyamin, the movie starts shooting this month.

Where else can we see Fra Fee and Stuart Martin?

Fra Fee attends the Netflix Premiere of Zack Snyder's ‘Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire’ at TCL Chinese Theatre on December 13, 2023 in Hollywood, California. Photo: Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Netflix.

Martin has been part of just-launched TV series ‘In Flight’ and is attached to another show, ‘Atomic’. Beyond those, there are the in-development movie likes of ‘Storm Witch’ and ‘From These Ashes’.

Fee showed up in the cast of Apple TV+ series ‘Prime Target’ and has worked on another show, ‘Out of the Dust’.

When will ‘The Last Photograph’ be on screens?

‘The Last Photograph’ has yet to lock down a distributor, but given Snyder’s name behind it, we doubt it’ll take too long to find a willing company.

Zack Snyder attends the Netflix's Tudum: A Global Fan Event 2023 at Fundação Bienal de São Paulo on June 17, 2023 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images for NETFLIX.