Director Zack Synder got candid about his dream casting for his Rebel Moon franchise in The Wayne Ayers Podcast on Friday.
The 58-year-old filmmaker started the program at the end of 2023 and followed up with another film in March.
He has been eager to continue the saga. “I’m always looking for a place for Billy because I love Billy,” Zack said of The Flash actor.
When asked which female star he would choose, he said he pointed to Anne Hathaway.
The 41-year-old actress is currently filming Flowervale Street in Atlanta, Georgia and just wrapped filming The Idea of ​​You.
Director Zack Synder got candid about wanting to cast Anne Hathaway (pictured) in his Rebel Moon franchise on The Wayne Ayers Podcast on Friday.
The 58-year-old filmmaker (pictured) started the show at the end of 2023 and followed up with another film in March.
“I’m always looking for a spot for Billy (pictured) because I love Billy,” Zack said of The Flash actor.
Anne has been busy promoting another film she’s starring in lately: her upcoming film The Idea Of You.
The Idea of ​​You centers on a budding May-December romance between a divorced mother of a teenage girl and a famous boy bander, who cross paths at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA.
Hathaway plays 40-year-old Solène, while Nicholas Galitzine plays her 24-year-old love interest, Hayes.
The actress was promoting the film at South by Southwest last week with Nicholas.
Speaking at the festival on Saturday, Nicholas spoke about the “chemistry test” he and Anne did to ensure their on-screen dynamic was as realistic as possible.
‘Reading chemistry was transformative. “As an actor, a lot of times you go into those rooms with a lot of trepidation and I was very open,” he told People.
“And I remember leaving the room saying, ‘You know, if this doesn’t work out, I’m really proud of the work I did, even in this space.'”
In a Q&A session held after the film’s screening at the festival, Nicholas shared more details about the “chemistry test,” explaining that he was asked to suggest a song he could sing to convince Anne’s character to dance. with the.
“Someone came up with the idea of ​​having the actors doing this chemistry test bring in a song that they wanted to use to essentially convince Soléne to get up and dance with him,” he recalls.
‘And again, [for] For someone like me, who is not a dancer, this was incredibly intimidating.
“But in all seriousness, I remember – these acting rooms can be extremely intimidating at times and extremely unnatural in many ways – but there was something almost spiritual that happened there where I felt this immediate connection with Annie, and we had a nice sense of humor and shared and it was very easy.’
The Idea Of You, based on the book of the same name by Robinne Lee, will hit theaters on May 2.
Anne has been busy promoting another film she’s starring in lately: her upcoming film The Idea Of You.
Hathaway (pictured) plays Solène, 40, while Nicholas Galitzine (pictured) plays her love interest, Hayes, 24.
The Idea Of You, based on the book of the same name by Robinne Lee, will hit theaters on May 2.
Filmmaker Zack Snyder has worked on Man of Steel, Aquaman and Wonder Woman and shares three children with his wife Deborah Snyder.
In 2023, he told Netflix that “I’ve been working on this idea for this Rebel Moon movie for about 20 years.”
Rebel Moon is the latest collaboration between Snyder and Netflix following their 2021 film Army Of The Dead.
That bodes well for the new company, as the film was watched by 72 million households in its first four weeks, according to the streaming platform.
He also wrote Army Of Thieves, the Netflix prequel to the aforementioned original, and is working on a sequel and an anime spin-off series.