After Working Together on Army of the Dead, Tig Notaro Pitched Zack Snyder on an Action Movie Where ‘Everyone’s a Hot Lesbian’ — and It Sounds Like He’s Into It

It looks like comedian and action star Tig Notaro has officially decided what project she wants to do next with Batman v. Superman director Zack Snyder — and it’s an action movie where “everyone’s a hot lesbian.”

Notaro recently opened up about how the idea came to pass, and it all started when she digitally replaced comedian Chris D’Elia in Snyder’s 2021 zombie film Army of the Dead. In the movie, she played Marianne Peters, a butch helicopter pilot with a penchant for cigars. Needless to say, the world took notice.

“I go viral for being sexy in this film,” Notaro recalled on an episode of the On With Kara Swisher podcast. “And it was so unexpected. My phone’s exploding. I’m not walking around going ‘Oh my God,’ you know, ‘Check me out.’ I was so confused. So I called Zack, and I said, ‘I’m hearing it from straight men, gay men, gay women and straight women that they think I’m hot in this movie.'”

So she took that notion and channeled it into a new idea where “everyone’s a hot lesbian” in a high-octane action movie — and Snyder was into the pitch. “He was like, ‘Oh my God, yes, let’s make that movie.’ And so who knows? It’s a Hollywood project. We’re in the process of putting the script together,” the comedian continued. “Picture this poster: We have the name of the film, and then it says ‘Hot Lesbian Action.’ That’s how I sold him on the Zoom.

“As of now, the movie is called ‘Deviants,’ and takes place back in some old-timey days, like some closeted deviants,” Notaro added of the film’s working title, and it’ll be interesting to see if it keeps the name should it actually get made (fingers crossed).

Notaro is currently starring in Zootopia 2 and will reprise her role as USS Discovery engineer Jett Reno in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, which will premiere on Paramount+ in January. Notaro first played the role on the series Star Trek: Discovery, which ran from 2017 to 2024.

As for Snyder, he is currently filming a drama thriller called The Last Photograph, starring Stuart Martin and Fra Free. He started developing the project in the mid 2000s, and there’s no release date just yet, but it will be interesting to see whenever it drops (both Snyder’s drama thriller and his hot lesbian action movie with Notaro).

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Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.