Zack Snyder to Direct Afghan War Drama ‘The Last Photograph’

Looks like The Last Photograph will be changing hands yet again.  The Christian Bale and Sean Penn starring drama is now going to be directed by Mr. 300 himself, Zack Snyder.  The last director to be attached to the film was Niels Arden Oplev, the director of the original Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Snyder is already a producer and co-writer on the film so taking on an extra role as director should be pretty easy for him.  He’ll most likely begin working on this film when he wraps up his work on the Superman reboot, Man of Steel.

While Oplev as a choice makes much more sense to me, I’m really curious to see how Snyder shapes this drama about two men who are inspired to travel to war-torn Afghanistan because of a photograph they saw.  It’ll be Zack’s first intentionally serious drama and one that sounds a lot like something we’d see at the Oscars.  With a great cast shaping up behind him let’s hope this turns out to be the great movie that we all want it be.

Thanks to Twitch for breaking the news