Zack Snyders Next Cut No Capes Allowed

Zack Snyder was going through a Fortnite phase. What started as a bonding activity with one of his sons had spiraled into a solitary obsession, with the 57-year-old filmmaker sneaking off any chance he had to play the world-building video game.

One night, about a year ago, his wife and producing partner, Deborah Snyder, woke to find him not in their bed, but logged on to his console. It was 3oclock in the morning, the last straw. Soon after, Deborah bought her husband some clay and tools, and suggested, Why dont you just make something?

Its a compulsion, Snyder admits on a balmy November day at his compound in the hills above Pasadena. Hes sitting in his home office, a modernist cube that also contains a screening room, an editing bay and a gym. Steps away is the pottery studio Snyder recently constructed on the property for his new hobby. Not far from that, near the pickleball court, is his familys sprawling dwelling, a midcentury glass-and-concrete structure that bears more than a passing resemblance to Bruce Waynes house in Snyders 2016 film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

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