Zack Snyder Says TV Is ‘Way Riskier’ Than Movies Now: A Film Version of ‘Euphoria’ Would ‘Never Get Made’ and ‘Can’t Exist’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Zack Snyder joined Anthony and Joe Russo’s “Pizza Film School” podcast and raved about HBO’s “Euphoria” and Netflix’s “Squid Game,” two shows he cited while discussing how television has become far more adventurous and exciting than film when it comes to storytelling. “I think we’re in a real golden age of TV in the sense that TV shows are much better at showing you something that you’ve never seen before, or catching you off balance or making a turn that you didn’t see coming,” Snyder said (via The Playlist). “They’re way riskier.” “‘Euphoria,’ for instance, I was just watching the show [and] it’s just unbelievable,” Snyder continued. “That show shouldn’t exist; it’s so good.

And that’s the kind of thing… I watch that show and go, ‘This movie would never get made; this movie can’t exist.’” Joe Russo agreed, saying all the pressures placed on box office and more that exist for movies in Hollywood would take out all the risk in a “Euphoria” movie. “You could imagine ‘Squid Game’ coming here as a movie; it would be an arthouse [film], maybe,” Snyder continued. “‘Euphoria’ and ‘Squid Game’ take you to places where you have no idea where you are going or what’s happening, and I think that’s what people want.” Russo picked up Snyder’s thread and agreed, adding, “Why I think you’re saying TV is now in a golden age is that it is disrupting from a format standpoint.

It’s 10 hours of content; it’s eight hours of content. You get a different emotional impact killing a character five hours into a ten-hour story because you’ve spent five hours with that character versus an hour.