Deborah Snyder (née Johnson)^[1] is an American producer of feature films and television commercials. She is married to filmmaker Zack Snyder, and has worked as his frequent producing partner on films such as Watchmen and 300. She is the co-founder of the production company Cruel and Unusual Films.

Personal life[link]

Deborah Snyder (née Johnson) is currently married to filmmaker Zack Snyder. The couple first met in 1996, and married on September 25, 2004 at the St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in Manhattan, New York.^[1] They currently reside in Pasadena, California.^[2]

Career[link]

Prior to her career as a film producer, Deborah worked at the New York advertising agency Backer Spielvogel Bates. In 1996, she hired Snyder to direct a commercial for Reebok, hoping to create a commercial with a cinematic feel.^[1] At the time, Deborah was dating the art director of the commercial, while Snyder was married.^[1] In 1997, Deborah served as producer for the television documentary Talk to Me: Americans in Conversation.^[3] In 2002, Deborah hired Snyder to direct a commercial for Soft and Dri deoderant in New Zealand. The couple began dating at the end of filming.^[1] In 2004, the couple became the co-founders of Cruel and Unusual Films alongside their producing partner Wesley Coller.

In 2007, Deborah served as an executive producer for Snyder's 2007 film 300, an adaptation of Frank Miller's same-titled graphic novel.^[1] She also produced the 2009 film adaptation of the graphic novel Watchmen. Deborah has currently served as an executive producer for the 2010 computer-animated film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, which is based on Guardians of Ga'Hoole, a series of children's fantasy books by Kathryn Lasky. The film was released in September 2010.^[4] Deborah next produced Sucker Punch, which was co-written, co-produced, and directed by her husband. The film was the first to credit their company Cruel and Unusual Films as a co-producer. Sucker Punch was released theatrically on March 25, 2011.

Upcoming projects[link]

Deborah is attached as producer alongisde Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas in the Superman reboot The Man of Steel, in which Snyder served as director. She will also produce a remake of the 1969 film The Illustrated Man with Snyder attached as a director;^[5] she will also produce The Last Photograph, a film about a photograph that inspires two men to travel to war-torn Afghanistan. The film will be directed by Sergei Bodrov.^[6] Deborah will also produce, with Marc Abraham and Eric Newman, the forthcoming film Army of the Dead, a sequel to Snyder's 2004 remake of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead, which Abraham and Newman produced. Her husband Zack Snyder will assist in developing the story, and Joby Harold, the writer/director of Awake, will write the screenplay. The story centers around a father trying to save his daughter in a zombie-infested Las Vegas.^[7] Insted of Snyder reprising his role as director, due to him working on The Man of Steel, the film will instead be directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., the director of the 2011 prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing, also produced by Abraham and Newman.^[8]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Deborah Snyder at the Internet Movie Database
• Cruel and Unusual Films official website

Deborah
Deborah in "Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum"
Born	c. 1200 BCE
Died	c. 1124 (aged 75) or 1067 BCE
Residence	Shelter in Mount Ephraim, which is between Ramah in Benjamin and Bethel
Nationality	Hebrew
Other names	Debora, Débora, Dvora
Occupation	Prophetess of God, Fourth Judge of Israel
Predecessor	Shamgar
Successor	Gideon
Spouse	Lapidoth

Deborah (Hebrew: דְבוֹרָה, Modern Dvora Tiberian Dəḇôrā ; "Bee", Arabic: دبورة Daborah‎) was a prophetess of the God of the Israelites, the fourth Judge of pre-monarchic Israel, counselor, warrior, and the wife of Lapidoth according to the Book of Judges chapters 4 and 5.

The only female judge mentioned in the Bible, Deborah led a successful counterattack against the forces of Jabin king of Canaan and his military commander Sisera, the narrative is recounted in chapter 4.

Judges chapter 5 gives the same story in poetic form. This passage, often called The Song of Deborah, may date to as early as the 12th century BC^[1] and is perhaps the earliest sample of Hebrew poetry. It is also significant because it is one of the oldest passages that portrays fighting women, the account being that of Jael, the wife of Heber, a Kenite tent maker. Jael killed Sisera by driving a tent peg through his temple as he slept. Both Deborah and Jael are portrayed as strong independent women. The poem may have been included in the Book of the Wars of the Lord mentioned in Numbers 21:14.

In Hebrew, her name, דְּבוֹרָה, translates as bee. The Deborah number, a dimensionless number used in rheology, is named after her.^[2]

Deborah's personal life[link]

Grave near Kedesh attributed to Barak or Deborah

Not much is known about Deborah's personal life. Her name in Hebrew is pronounced Dvora. Some sources, such as Chabad.org, state that she judged Israel from 1107 B.C. until her death in 1067 B.C.^[3] The Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World, claims that she might have lived from 1200 B.C. to 1124 B.C., which would have made her about 36 years old at the time of the battle against Sisera, and 75 at the time her death.^[4] The book also says that she was most probably born in central Israel to the tribe of Ephraim, and was also the author of The Song of Deborah.^[4]

In the Book of Judges, it is stated that she was the wife of Lapidoth (Hebrew: לפידות‎ whose name means "torches"). She rendered her judgments beneath a palm tree between Ramah in Benjamin and Bethel in the land of Ephraim. (Judges 4:5) Some people today refer to Deborah as the mother of Israel because of the "Song of Deborah and Barak" found in Judges 5.

After being oppressed by Jabin, the king of Canaan, in Hazor, for twenty years, (Judges 4:9) Deborah prevailed upon Barak who was the head captain of the army at that time, to face the Assyrian General Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, in battle. The victory to which the Bible refers is the victory of an Israelite force of ten thousand over Sisera's force of nine hundred iron chariots. (Judges 4:10)

When Deborah saw the army, she said, according to Judges 4:14:

As Deborah prophesied, the Lord gave the victory to the Israelites. Sisera fled the battle site seeking refuge in the tent of the woman Jael. In the Biblical account, Jael killed the enemy leader, Sisera. The Biblical account of Deborah ends in Judges 5.

After the battle, there was peace in the land for 40 years. (Judges 5:31)

The Song of Deborah[link]