Netflix Officially Pulls Zack Snyder's Action Fantasy From Its Library

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Published Oct 24, 2026, 4:20 AM EDT

Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once.

He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.

After a brief detour into the festival circuit with the passion project The Last Photograph, director Zack Snyder is gearing up to return to franchise filmmaking with a remake of Escape from New York. Snyder has spent the majority of his career working with pre-established properties, at least when he isn’t devising his own. In recent years, he has worked on a string of big-budget projects with Netflix, with mixed results. Both the franchises he was meant to oversee — Army of the Dead and Rebel Moon — were abandoned due to regime changes and unremarkable performance. The filmmaker had a similar experience during his stint at Warner Bros. Interestingly, the biggest box-office underperformer from his WB era is currently streaming on Netflix, but only for a little while longer.

The film in question marked his first original project, after the remake of Dawn of the Dead, and adaptations of the seminal comic books 300 and Watchmen. This was before Snyder was handed the reins to the DC Extended Universe, which began with his 2013 film Man of Steel. Snyder was effectively given massive freedom during this phase; it’s when he directed the ambitious sci-fi fantasy that’s currently streaming on Netflix, as well as the stylish animated fantasy that could’ve spawned a franchise of its own. However, both movies underperformed commercially, bringing all franchise plans to an end.

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We’re talking specifically about Sucker Punch. Pitched as “Alice in Wonderland with machine guns,” the movie follows a group of young women in a mental institution who use their imagination to enter fantasy lands and break out of captivity. The film grossed around $89 million worldwide against a reported budget of approximately $80 million, and is now sitting at a 23% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The aggregator website’s consensus reads, “It's technically impressive and loaded with eye-catching images, but without characters or a plot to support them, all of Sucker Punch's visual thrills are for naught.” Starring Emily Browning, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Abbie Cornish, Carla Gugino, Oscar Isaac, and Jon Hamm, the film will be removed from Netflix in the United Kingdom on November 6. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.