Zack Snyder Reunites With ‘Rebel Moon’ Actors As ‘The Last Photograph’ Finally Moves Forward

After announcing intentions to direct “Brawler,” a mixed martial arts film, Zack Snyder is finally moving forward with his long-gestating drama “The Last Photograph,” a project that goes back to the mid-2000s and puts the filmmaker in the frame for a much smaller/grounded story compared to his previously bombastic genre efforts.

That’s not it, as The Hollywood Reporter also reveals that Snyder will be reuniting with “Rebel Moon” actors Stuart Martin (“Army of Thieves”) and Fra Fee (“Hawkeye”) as they’ve secured lead roles.

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Once set in war-torn Afghanistan and connected to U.S. operations there, the film’s setting has since moved to South America, with locations being used for the production are said to include Colombia, Iceland, and Los Angeles.

An updated logline for the thriller penned by Kurt Johnstad, as provided by THR:

“An ex-DEA operative 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 further and further away from civilization, bringing into question everything they believe, while slowly eroding the distinction between real and surreal.”

Some of Johnstad’s other writing credits include Snyder’s “300,” David Leitch‘s Cold War spy flick “Atomic Blonde” starring Charlize Theron, “Brawler,” and the two “Rebel Moon” movies.

“The idea of taking camera in hand and simply making a movie in an intimate way is very appealing to me,” Snyder said in an official statement on the film’s announcement. “‘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.”

Snyder, Deborah Snyder, and Wesley Coller are producing via their Stone Quarry production banner, with Gianni Nunnari and his Hollywood Gang Production also involved.

Stay tuned for more casting updates as there are likely more roles to fill before cameras start rolling on “The Last Photograph.”