Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead

kryptyk500

What do you think of this?? I enjoyed the Dawn of the Dead remake, so this has potential:



From shocktillyoudrop.com

EXCL: Snyder's Army of the Dead Update!
Source: Ryan RottenOctober 26, 2007


Immersing oneself in the world of the long-awaited big screen adaptation of Watchmen is an enviable, however protracted, duty director Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead, 300) committed himself to this year leaving room in his life for not much else. But during this writer's visit to the Vancouver set (on behalf of ComingSoon.net), ShockTillYouDrop.com found out progress is being made on the Snyder-produced Army of the Dead.

"We're meeting with directors right now," co-producer and wife Deborah Snyder exclusively tells us. Under their production banner Cruel & Unusual Films, the Snyders are developing the film for Warner Bros. "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.'"

Based on a story by Zack and written by Awake's Joby Harold, "Army" is described as a picture larger in scale than Snyder's 2004 "Dawn" redux. "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!"

Of the films they get phone calls on, Deborah adds Army of the Dead is one that has generated a lot of interest. Currently, the Snyders are seeking a director with experience, but with a "fresh eye." "What's important is tone. Like 'Dawn' has fun but it never makes fun. It's different than the tone of 28 Days Later, those films are super serious. I think 'Dawn' had a little bit more fun with it and we're hoping to have a similar tone in 'Army.'"

Otis Driftwood

Pfffffftttttt.

Dawn remake was total pants so I feel this could be double pants.

Could be wrong but I doubt it.

Karl Hungus

Sounds a little like Stalker with Zombies. Could be very good.

Shockingly, Snyder's version of Dawn was one of the very few remakes I actually liked.

TerrorFirmer

nedtheshed wrote: »

Pfffffftttttt.

Dawn remake was total pants so I feel this could be double pants.

Could be wrong but I doubt it.

I think you're out of the loop of general opinion on that one! Dawn was a fine remake, and though I do genuinely like most remakes, few actually pass the line between mere entertainment into a damn fine movie.

As for this one, well...it's high budget, it's got zombies, I don't particularly care to hear more, I'm already sold

Tusky

nedtheshed wrote: »

Pfffffftttttt.

Dawn remake was total pants so I feel this could be double pants.

Could be wrong but I doubt it.

WHAT?! Dawn of the dead(2004) was absolutely brilliant! Loved it.

Otis Driftwood

LOL.

I hated it.The original Dawn is one of the finest horror movies ever made.

Just cos a movie has big explosions and CGI aplenty doesnt make it any good.

The original was a social commentry,the remake just a cash in.
The original had some genuine scares,the remake was sofa king obvious that it was laughable.

Plus the whole thing of Zombies running-ehhhhhhhhh,no.

They are rotting flesh so obviously they wouldnt be able to move very fast - rigger mortis and other aspects of being dead!

You may think Im being picky but that really bugged me about it.

And before anyone brings up 28 days later-they arent zombies so them running is a non issue.

But sure we wont fall out over it.Each to their own.

TerrorFirmer

Actually, I do agree with the whole 'running' thing, I actually think there was a lengthy discussion on the issue before, if you can call it that, on one of the various threads about zombie movies. I think most people seemed to think the running aspect was a great evolution of the stereotypical zombie. It just isn't as unsettling if they can run, I much prefer the slow, moaning, bits-falling-off-them type. Reinforces the ideal that they're the 'living dead' in a far more sinister and disturbing way!

Tusky

nedtheshed wrote: »

LOL.

I hated it.The original Dawn is one of the finest horror movies ever made.

Just cos a movie has big explosions and CGI aplenty doesnt make it any good.

The original was a social commentry,the remake just a cash in.
The original had some genuine scares,the remake was sofa king obvious that it was laughable.

Plus the whole thing of Zombies running-ehhhhhhhhh,no.

They are rotting flesh so obviously they wouldnt be able to move very fast - rigger mortis and other aspects of being dead!

You may think Im being picky but that really bugged me about it.

And before anyone brings up 28 days later-they arent zombies so them running is a non issue.

But sure we wont fall out over it.Each to their own.

The social commentary had already been done with the original. I was glad they didn't redo it. It just took the (rather excellent) premise of a group of survivors hiding in a shopping mall and being attacked by zombies. Unlike the original, its simple and much more straightforward but its definitely one of my favorite zombie movies.

Trying to bring logic into an argument about zombies ? How about this - zombies don't exist. In reality, they shouldn't be able to walk at all, regardless of how fast....but that would be rather boring. I enjoy the slow classic zombies but also enjoyed the fast ones of dawn & 28 days. They are definitely scarier.

I'm not sure about Army of the dead...my expectations arent high.

Otis Driftwood

Interesting comments.
I guess Im just old school when it comes to my Zombies.
In the original Dawn there were charactors that we could empathise with but in the remake they were just hateful.
I hate to bang on about the special effects side of things but Romeros original zombie trilogy all had man made effects which were outstanding but as with many new movies the prevelance in Dawn 2004 was for CGI which I cannot stand.

There is only 1 forthcoming Zombie movie that Im looking forward to seeing and that is Nick Palumbos "Corpse"

Its scheduled for release in the first part of next year.
Im expecting great things from it.

For those that dont know Palumbo is the guy behind the OUTSTANDING gore fest Murder Set Pieces.

niallon

Apart from the Vegas link being too close to Resident Evil Extinction for my liking, I loved the Dawn remake and have every faith in Snyder to make sure this is an ass kicking zombie epic!

Tusky

nedtheshed wrote: »

Interesting comments.
I guess Im just old school when it comes to my Zombies.
In the original Dawn there were charactors that we could empathise with but in the remake they were just hateful.
I hate to bang on about the special effects side of things but Romeros original zombie trilogy all had man made effects which were outstanding but as with many new movies the prevelance in Dawn 2004 was for CGI which I cannot stand.

There is only 1 forthcoming Zombie movie that Im looking forward to seeing and that is Nick Palumbos "Corpse"

Its scheduled for release in the first part of next year.
Im expecting great things from it.

For those that dont know Palumbo is the guy behind the OUTSTANDING gore fest Murder Set Pieces.

That is one thing I will agree with you about. I hate cgi, specially in horror movies. It just seems less scary... Imagine if they advanced the type of effects used in The Thing for example and used them in present day, they would look amazing.

I thought that Dawn(2004) used very little cgi on the zombies themselves though ?

Otis Driftwood

True but I was refering to the bloodletting as opposed to the actual zombies.
Romero was just as guilty with Lond of the Dead.
There wasnt any real gut munching like in the original trilogy and the head shots looked crappy,IMO anyway.

kryptyk500

niallon wrote: »

Apart from the Vegas link being too close to Resident Evil Extinction for my liking, I loved the Dawn remake and have every faith in Snyder to make sure this is an ass kicking zombie epic!

Agreed. Hopefully it won't be like Resident Evil - I hated the first one and never bothered watching the other 2. The zombies in the desert idea looked interesting in the trailer for the third one though.

The Dawn remake was surprisingly good - I remember expecting a real hack job before I went to see it, but it turned out to be a fine film that can stand (or run!) on its own merits.

senordingdong

So it's RE:Extinction meets Land of the Dead?

jayteecork

I thought Synder's remake of Dawn was better than the original (I'll proabably get banned from this forum for saying that).
And it was certainly a lot better than Romero's "Land of the Dead" Bollocks.
300 was awesome too, can't wait to check this "Army" out.

Otis Driftwood

:eek:

Cactus Col

jayteecork wrote: »

I thought Synder's remake of Dawn was better than the original (I'll proabably get banned from this forum for saying that).
And it was certainly a lot better than Romero's "Land of the Dead" Bollocks.
300 was awesome too, can't wait to check this "Army" out.

I was with you until you said 300 was awesome! ... it's terrible.

Anyway, I liked the Dawn Remake, half the characters were assholes though.

The original Dawn is just boring.

SimpleSam06

senordingdong wrote: »

So it's RE:Extinction meets Land of the Dead?

Could be good, it has been done to death (har har) though. What I'd love to see would be a wides angle view of a zombie uprising, government officials sitting there sweating and trying to ignore the banging from the bunker door, and military strategies with large scale pitched battles between modern armed forces and an enemy that is yourself. Possibly work in smaller groups, something like reign of fire, to give it a personal touch.

Or even better a sequel to the remake.

Fuckit though, after the Dawn of the Dead remake, I'd buy two of whatever Snyder brings out next.

senordingdong

I am between two minds about a sequel to his dawn remake.
The ending was superb, it would be a shame to ruin it.