Before a decade, Zack Snyder acted as a creative head of the DC universe under the roof of Warner before he said goodbye to the mighty superhero: on the inside and brought two new universes to Netflix: Army of the Dead and Rebel Moon. After that, however, it became surprisingly quiet around the director.
What is Zack Snyder doing? Neither the zombie battle nor the sci-fi epic seem to have fulfilled the expectations of the streaming service-at least there are no further sequels or offshoots. Does Snyder’s Netflix era get to the end? He implements his next project with the UFC.
Zack Snyder turns martial arts film Brawler with the UFC
The UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) is an American sports organization that focuses on martial arts MMA (Mixed Martial Arts). In nerve -wracking competitions, body meet body. In other words, the perfect starting situation for a new film by Zack Snyder.
As the Hollywood reporter reports, this happens: with Brawler Snyder tells the story of a young fighter who wants to prove himself in the streets of Los Angeles and is doing everything possible to win the UFC championship one day. In this way, he has to do one thing above all: conquering his inner demons.
Brawler is created in close cooperation with the UFC under the direction of Dana White. Already last year, the sports organization took a step towards the film when an immersive MMA linish experience was set up in the Sphere in Las Vegas. Brawler marks the next stop on the way to the cinema.
Brawler could become Zack Snyder’s own rocky
The procedure is reminiscent of the racing film F1, which starts this year, in which Formula 1 with the streaming service Apple TV+ and the traditional Hollywood studio Warner have joined together to bring a sport in the blockbuster robe onto the big screen. Now it is Snyder’s turn.
Snyder directs at Brawler and acts as a co-author. He also produces the film with his wife Deborah Snyder and Wesley Coller, who has accompanied his career since 300. Already with the historically addressed action film, Snyder’s focus was on the staging of bodies. He can now live this out in UFC dimensions.
The bottom line is that it all sounds like Snyder was turning his own Rocky with Brawler. Even if boxes and MMA are not technically the same, in both cases we are dealing with an underdog story in the context of martial arts that are primarily about Body, sweat and slow motion is told.
When does Zack Snyder’s Brawler start in the cinema?
We are still a long way from a theatrical release. Basically, we don’t even know exactly how the film is published. Maybe the UFC merges with a streamer or, like Apple and Warner, places on a shared evaluation at F1, so that the film comes to the cinema first.