The director insists his 2007 action flick “300” is actually “one of the gayest movies ever made.”

Zack Snyder defends brutally reviewed new movie from accusations of ‘fascism’ and ‘homophobia’

The director insists his 2007 action flick “300” is actually “one of the gayest movies ever made.”

By Kathleen Perricone

September 16, 2026 6:44 p.m. ET

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Zack Snyder attends screening of ‘The Last Photograph’ at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival. Credit:

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- Zack Snyder defends brutally reviewed new movie *The Last Photograph* from accusations of “fascism” and “homophobia.”

- “Obviously I’m pro-gay,” said the director, because his 2007 film *300* “is one of the gayest movies ever made.”

- *The Last Photograph *premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, but doesn’t yet have a wide release date.

Zack Snyder’s latest movie, a two-decade labor of love, has been received with a mountain of hate.

*The Last Photograph* follows an ex-DEA operative searching for his niece and nephew after their parents are murdered with the help of a junkie war photographer who witnessed the crime. Following its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, the thriller was slammed as everything from “overstuffed” and “undercooked” to “f---ing putrid.”

And those were some of the gentler reviews.

Fra Fee plays a photographer who witnessed a murder in ‘The Last Photograph’ directed by Zack Snyder.

The most brutal online criticisms were delivered straight to Snyder’s X feed as recommended content — however, he rejects the discourse.

“There were only 1,200 people in the theater and there are thousands of comments,” he told *Variety*. “And look: Whether you like the movie or not, I’m not even commenting on that; but with me, it’s more clickable to say, ‘I hate Zack Snyder! He’s a fascist!’ than it is to say, ‘I saw the movie and it was cool.’ Nobody gives a f--- about that. And obviously, I’m *not* a fascist.”

Other tweets that popped up in the director’s algorithm accused him of being both “a homophobe” and “a bisexual,” he presumes because his lead actors, Stuart Martin and Fra Fee, are mostly shirtless as they scour the mountains of South America for the missing children.

“It’s ‘homoerotic’ and ‘transphobic’ and ‘fascist’ and all these things,” lamented Snyder.

*The Last Photograph* is certainly not the first time he’s faced such accusations.

“This exact same thing happened,” said Snyder, in 2007 when his epic action flick *300* starring Gerard Butler premiered at the Berlin Film Festival.

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“There was immediate discourse around the movie, and everyone booed and walked out,” he recalled to *Variety*. “They were saying it was ‘a disaster,’ ‘the worst movie ever’ and a ‘fascist’ movie.”

At the press conference, Snyder said he was asked: “Are you pro-gay or pro-NRA?”

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Admitting he’s “a tiny bit of both,” he insisted, “obviously I’m pro-gay” because *300* — which showcased male characters in loincloths and helmets — “is one of the gayest movies ever made. I always go, ‘Look, there are few movies where people come in straight and come out gay, and *300* is one of them.’”

Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill in ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’.

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Snyder has also recently defended another of his most polarizing films, 2016’s *Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice*. At the time, DC Comics fans took issue with the director’s creative liberties with the iconic superheroes.

“We should’ve realized then that we were kind of kicking the zeitgeist in the nuts a little bit,” Snyder reflected on the *Happy Sad Confused* podcast in February. “That we were going to anger people, because not only do they not want their heroes deconstructed, they don’t want their heroes battling each other on a road to deconstructing the ‘why’ of their existence. That is another sacrilege.”

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