Zack Snyder actually banned chairs from the Army Of The Dead set

Unlike Christopher Nolan, who was accused of this a while back, Zack Snyder actually banned chairs from the set of his Netflix film Army of the Dead.

Zack Snyder had no qualms about banning chairs from the set of his new Netflix film, Army of the Dead. He revealed as much while talking on The Playlist’s Fourth Wall podcast, which takes us back to last year’s Christopher Nolan debacle.

If you recall, last year there was some hoopla over the allegation that Tenet director Christopher Nolan banned chairs on his sets. Anne Hathaway, who worked with Nolan on The Dark Knight Rises, said as much during a conversation with Hugh Jackman during Variety’s “Actor on Actor” series.

That whole ordeal was squashed after the Twitterverse came to Nolan’s defense and his spokesperson confirmed that the director did not ban chairs on set. But unlike Nolan, Zack Snyder is all about the practice, at least on Army of the Dead. “There’s no sitting down, like I banned chairs from the set,” he declared. “But the nice thing is, it’s really intimate. I can just talk to the actors right there, I’m not back in a monitor across the room. It was definitely the most purely engaged I’ve been making a movie.”

That sounds great and all, but is that sort of thing actually allowed? It kind of sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. And with the actors working long, grueling hours, wouldn’t it only be fair that they’d be allowed to take a moment to sit down and collect themselves?

I never thought Zack Snyder would be the one to revive #Chairgate, but here we are!

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