Zack Snyder has talked about working on an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead since 2016. And now, the filmmaker has revealed that The Fountainhead will be his next directorial venture. The director confirmed the project after a fan asked what his next movie would be, via the social-media site Vero.
The Fountainhead is officially Zack's next project instead of The Last Photograph. pic.twitter.com/pKS84l3uO8
— Chris (@ChrisRa7en) May 28, 2018
The Fountainhead centers on the young architect Howard Roark, whose dream of constructing modernist buildings puts him in opposition with the architectural establishment. He refuses to constrain his visions just to appease other architects. His ideas are modernist and, despite the backlash he receives, the architect refuses to change his own beliefs just to fit in. It was written by novelist Ayn Rand and released in 1943. Six years later, Warner Bros. released a film version, starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal.
Snyder was previously developing a dramatic thriller called The Last Photograph, about a war correspondent and a special-ops soldier in Afghanistan who team up after an attack. However, Snyder has apparently put The Last Photograph on hold in order to pursue this project.
Snyder’s last directorial effort was 2017’s Justice League. Snyder, who remains the film’s credited director, stepped aside during production following a personal tragedy, and Joss Whedon finished the film.
He first expressed interest in adapting The Fountainhead in a 2016 interview, saying he was attracted to the novel’s “thesis on the creative process and what it is to create something”. As of now, Snyder has not released other details about his adaptation, including the possible cast, release date, or studio.
Source: Zack Snyder/Vero (via @ChrisRa7en on Twitter)
