To be fair, I realize that his career is not completely tied down to costumed vigilantes and reanimated, flesh-eating corpses.
He followed Dawn of the Dead with the period war epic 300 and followed Watchmen with his animated young adult fantasy novel adaptation Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole in 2010 and a young adult fantasy brought to life in Sucker Punch the following year.
In fact, it those unique one-timers amidst the comic book action and post-apocalyptic carnage are key reasons why I am looking forward to seeing Zack Snyder branch out into other styles.
Since he has already admitted the world is not ready for his adaptation of Ayn Rand’s controversial classic The Fountainhead, I have a few other ideas of some more accessible genres he might consider trying out next, starting with one that could use and extra boost in creativity.