Don't expect to see Zack Snyder's The Fountainhead anytime soon.

In an interview with The New York Times, Snyder confirmed his movie adaptation of The Fountainhead is "on the back burner" for now. "[I] don’t know how that movie gets made, at least not right away," Snyder said. "We need a less divided country and a little more liberal government to make that movie, so people don’t react to it in a certain way." When asked if that means it would've struck the wrong tone coming out in the last few years, he replied, "I think so. But we’ll see. I’m in no rush."

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Published in 1943, The Fountainhead reflects author/philosopher Ayn Rand's championing of individualism over collectivism. Story-wise, the book revolves around Howard Roark, an up and coming architect whose unconventional aesthetics lead him to clash with his peers. It was adapted into a movie written by Rand and directed by King Vidor in 1949, with Gary Cooper starring as Roark. Although the project was a critical and commercial failure upon its initial release, various filmmakers -- including Oliver Stone and Snyder -- have expressed an interest in re-adapting Rand's book for the big screen since the 1990s.

As for Snyder, he's currently busy promoting the impending release of his four-hour, R-rated cut of Justice League. The project was green-lit in 2020 following a successful fan campaign and will stream on HBO Max beginning March 18. Zack Snyder's Justice League is already the director's best-reviewed DC Extended Universe film on Rotten Tomatoes. The site's Critics Consensus reads, "Zack Snyder's Justice League lives up to its title with a sprawling cut that expands to fit the director's vision -- and should satisfy the fans who willed it into existence."

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Snyder will follow up Justice League with Army of the Dead, a zombie action/horror movie scheduled to stream on Netflix starting May 21. An original project Snyder first tried to get off the ground in the late 2000s, Army of the Dead stars Dave Bautista as the leader of a group of mercenaries who attempt to rob an abandoned Las Vegas casino after the city is overrun by zombies and quarantined off from the rest of the world.

Beyond that, Snyder recently revealed he's developing a cinematic retelling of the King Arthur story. "I'm working on something but we'll see," he said. "I've been thinking about some kind of retelling, like, [a] real sort of faithful retelling of that Arthurian mythological concept. We'll see. Maybe that will come at some point."

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Source: The New York Times