EXCLUSIVE: Zack Snyder’s long-awaited passion project, The Last Photograph, is ready for its closeup. The Rebel Moon director has set the drama as his next film and cast Stuart Martin and Fra Fee to star. Snyder worked with both actors on his recent sci-fi franchise Rebel Moon and, after recently securing financing to get the film off the ground, set the two rising stars to headline the film.
The film begins production this month and will shoot through November in Iceland, Colombia and Los Angeles .Snyder will direct the film from a screenplay by Kurt Johnstad, with Snyder having a story-by credit. Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder and Wesley Coller will produce through Stone Quarry and continue their creative partnership with Gianni Nunnari who is producing through Hollywood Gang Productions along with co-producer Alisha Stickney.
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Executive producers include Mediaset España, through its film production arm Telecinco Cinema, William Doyle and Jaguar Bite. True North serves as the production service company in Iceland, while Jaguar Bite, run by Juan Pablo Solano and Simon Beltran, serves as the Colombian production service company. Hans Zimmer, Steven Doar and Omer Benyamin are handling the score.
“The idea of taking camera in hand and simply making a movie in an intimate way is very appealing to me,” said Snyder. “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.”
The project has received approval to obtain the CINA incentive (Audiovisual Investment Certificate), granted by the Colombian government and administered by Proimágenes Colombia: a tax discount equivalent to 35% of the expenditure on audiovisual services in the country.
The story 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. Their journey into the unknown takes them farther and farther away from civilization, bringing into question everything they believe, while slowly eroding the distinction between real and surreal.
Snyder has long wanted to make The Last Photograph, but his busy schedule directing big-budget tentpoles has always led to having table the film. Recently, he not only saw a window to fit the film in before focusing on another large production and also had the actors he wanted to star in it after the three had a strong bond working on Rebel Moon together. Once the financing was in place, pre-production was off to the races, and Snyder officially was underway. He is repped by CAA and Sloane Offer Weber & Dern.
Martin’s star has been on the rise for some time with not only key roles in Snyder’s two Rebel Moon pics but the Snyder-produced heist thriller Army of Thieves. On the TV side, Martin has the Channel 4 series In Flight. He is repped by UTA, Independent Talent Group, Untitled Entertainment and Sloane Offer Weber Dern.
Besides the Rebel Moon films, Fee most recently was seen in the Apple TV+ series Prime Target and also had a role in the Marvel series Hawkeye. He is repped by Paradigm Talent Agency, 42, Untitled Entertainment and Goodman Genow Schenkman.
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