Zack Snyder Doesn't Understand the Hate for Amber Heard

Ahead of the December 22nd release of his Rebel Moon on Netflix, Zack Snyder is profiled over on The Hollywood Reporter, where he candidly recounts his career, including his superhero years with DC. There are some interesting nuggets in the piece, including the fact that Snyder quit his first directing gig on 2003’s SWAT because the studio wouldn’t let him make an R-rated film — the PG-13 version directed by Clark Johnson would earn a modest $116 million domestic.

Whatever his issues with Warner Brothers and DC, Snyder has moved on from the world of superheroes, telling THR that the genre “has not evolved. I don’t have the excitement for it that I used to have.” He does concede, however, that he would be willing to return to DC and his friend and Dawn of the Dead writer James Gunn to direct Dark Knight Returns, but only a “true representation of the graphic novel” (i.e., a Rated-R version). He might also consider working for Marvel to make a Daredevil or Elektra movie. But that’s it, he assured THR.

He also hasn’t left his entire DC world behind. Ray Fisher, mistreated by DC after Zack Snyder left, has a role in Rebel Moon. Snyder would also happily work with the Aquaman actress, Amber Heard, and doesn’t understand all the online abuse.

“I just don’t get it,” Snyder tells THR. “If other people don’t like her, I don’t know what to say. I would work with her in a second.”

Unfortunately, Amber Heard has quit Hollywood, at least for the time being.

Snyder’s Rebel Moon premieres on Netflix on December 22nd, the same day that Heard’s Aquaman sequel arrives in theaters.