Director Zack Snyder at the premiere of Dawn of the Dead copyright Sue Schneider
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Director Needed For ARMY OF THE DEAD
By: Jarrod Sarafin, News EditorDate: Saturday, October 27, 2007
Source: Ryan Rotten at Shock Til You Drop
While Zack Snyder's 300 hit the theaters last March, the director and his co-producing wife Deborah mentioned the desire to do another zombie flick. The duo already had one zombie flick under their belt, remaking George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead but it was mentioned in reports that this new concept, ARMY OF THE DEAD, would incorporate more of an action style. Thanks to Ryan Rotten visiting the set of WATCHMEN, we now have a little more information as to what the Snyders want out of this new zombie film. The first order of business is finding a director...
"That's a little hard [to do] because we're here [on set] and every day is killer. We want the right person for it. The script has been turned in to the studio and they're really happy with it, with pretty minimal notes back, so they said, 'Hey, let's get a director.'"
She also describes the story concept for the film.
"Basically, something happened in Vegas and there was this huge outbreak of these zombies that were killing people," Deborah explains. "So to contain it they basically contain Vegas. The city is this wasteland with walls around it and all of these zombies are inside. One of our characters goes in there to investigate and gets trapped inside and her father goes in to search for her. He can't do it alone so he gets a group of mercenaries under the guise that there's money still in the casinos, because they don't care about his daughter. There's also a plotline of what's really going on - like, the containment isn't so contained and there are cover-ups. We think it's really fun. 'Dawn' was set in a mall and come on, Vegas is the perfect place to set a zombie film and you can have a lot of fun with that!"
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