Zack Snyder returns to grounded, live-action territory with "The Last Photograph," a violent yet unexpectedly human action drama that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Departing from his recent DC blockbuster work, Snyder shot the film himself, delivering a jungle-set thriller in an unnamed Latin American country that critics are comparing to Peter Weir's "The Year of Living Dangerously" rather than the politically charged "Sound of Freedom."

The story follows photojournalist Joe Wallace (Fra Fee), who witnesses a guerrilla attack on a child's birthday party that leaves adults dead and two children kidnapped, and Ethan Black (Stuart Martin), a Scottish sheep farmer whose brother was killed in the raid. When Ethan discovers his late sister-in-law was the great love of his life, he travels to find Joe and offers him $10,000 to help track down the killers and rescue the missing children, setting off an Apocalypse Now-style journey with echoes of Tropic Thunder in its darker comic moments.