NEW DAWN
Zack Snyder is having a blast. It’s October 2019, and Total Film is tucked behind a row of slot machines on the ground floor of the shuttered Showboat Casino in Atlantic City. Next to us, two ‘Alpha’ zombies caked in necrotic make-up eagerly await their cue, like sprinters anticipating the firing gun. On action, they hurl their bodies towards Dave Bautista’s tooled-up Scott Ward and two fellow mercenaries, who take pot shots at the crazed ghouls rapidly closing the gap as they flee, poker chips, playing cards and debris flying overhead like confetti. One of the cameramen capturing this insanity? Snyder himself.
“I felt like the reality was: the bigger the movie, the further away from the camera you can get,” Snyder tells over lunch later in the day, unfazed by the fact the surrounding tables are packed with undead extras delicately spooning the day’s catering into their pestilent maws. Snyder operated B-camera on , alongside A-camera operator John Clothier – Snyder’s go-to cameraman since . Given the work involved and expertise required, it’s a responsibility few directors would consider shouldering. “Usually you
