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Zachary Edward Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American filmmaker. He made his feature film debut in 2004 with Dawn of the Dead, a remake of the 1978 horror film of the same name. Since then, he has directed or produced a number of comic book and superhero films, including 300 (2006) and Watchmen (2009), as well as the Superman film that started the DC Extended Universe, Man of Steel (2013), and its follow-ups, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017), the latter of which had a director's cut released in 2021. He also directed the animated film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010), the psychological action film Sucker Punch (2011), the zombie heist film Army of the Dead (2021), and the two-part space opera films Rebel Moon (2023) and Rebel Moon—Part Two: The Scargiver (2024). In 2004, he founded the production company The Stone Quarry (formerly known as Cruel and Unusual Films) alongside his wife Deborah Snyder and producing partner Wesley Coller. Description above from the Wikipedia article Zack Snyder, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Set centuries before Barry Allen becomes the Flash, the film follows Eobard Thawne, a brilliant but obsessive scientist who becomes the first being to master time travel and breach the multiverse using the Negative Speed Force. Long before the idea of “The Flash” exists, Thawne pushes beyond time itself, tearing open realities and exploring unstable universes purely to understand and control creation. His experiments trigger catastrophic ripple effects across the multiverse, drawing the attention of an alternate-reality Kid Flash (Wally West)—a hardened survivor whose world collapses as a direct consequence of Thawne’s actions. The two speedsters clash across fractured timelines and dying universes, not as hero versus villain, but as opposing philosophies: preservation versus domination. As Thawne continues his reckless exploration, he unknowingly plants the paradox seed that will one day lead to Barry Allen’s creation—making Thawne the indirect architect of his own future nemesis. By the end, Thawne embraces his destiny as a force beyond morality, setting the stage for his eventual obsession with the Flash, while cementing himself as the originator of multiversal chaos in the alternate multiversal dimensional reality (in DCEU)
