Director Zack Snyder is coming off a bittersweet first for his career — he recently premiered a passion project at the Toronto International Film Festival, but it wasn't received with much enthusiasm. Snyder has never been a festival filmmaker, but he is certainly accustomed to poor reviews. In fact, none of his movies has been critically acclaimed, although several of them have been universally panned. In recent years, Snyder has had a particularly difficult relationship with critics, thanks to his two mega-budget Netflix fantasy films Rebel Moon — Part One: A Child of Fire and its sequel, Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver. His first brush with critical and commercial failure came in 2011 with another fantasy film fronted by a female protagonist. The movie in question is currently streaming on HBO Max, but only for a few more days.
It was Snyder's first original movie, following his Dawn of the Dead remake, the blockbuster comic book adaptation 300, and the superhero epic Watchmen. By then, Snyder had already forged a strong creative partnership with Warner Bros., which assigned his bold original vision a reported budget of $80 million. However, the movie tanked at the box office, ending its run with around $89 million worldwide. Years later, former WB executive Greg Silverman revealed that while most of Snyder's films at the studio were "very profitable," they lost "a fair amount" of money on the 2011 fantasy film.
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