Zack Snyder has achieved one of those rare Hollywood survival scenarios. He directed a remake of a cult classic film and survived. Not only did he survive the making of Dawn of the Dead (which even original director George Romero professed enjoyment for), but Snyder has gone on to win fanboys over with his adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300. Everyone knows his next project is another comic book adaptation - this time the legendary Watchmen, but Snyder’s not stopping there. He wants to head back to his roots.
According to Variety, Snyder is returning to the zombie genre with Army of the Dead a (for once) original tale for Snyder to take on. The idea of the film follows a father trying to save his daughter from a zombie infested world and is set in a quarantined Las Vegas. Not to cut on Snyder’s originality, but isn’t a desolate Vegas featured in the promo for the next Resident Evil zombie flick?
Snyder hasn’t revealed what shooting techniques he’ll use for the film, although it’s likely some of his 300 skills will come into play if he’s shooting another army movie which, if the title doesn’t give it away, he is. Snyder professes part of the reason he wants to do this film is that no zombie movie has been done on the scale they are looking at. Nothing? Not even Romero’s Land of the Dead which featured a world overcome by the zombies?
I liked Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake and would be interested to see what might bring to a larger scale picture. I only have one suggestion – I agree with Romero when he says Snyder’s zombies move too g*ddamn fast. Slow ‘em down if there’s going to be a whole freakin’ army!
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I love zombie movies and im tired of waiting for a really good one... Dawn of the Dead was the last good one that I saw. Land of the Dead was terrible... I just didnt like it. I like the idea of people on the brink of the world being taken over by zombies forced to be on the run. Instead of holing up somewhere (like in Dawn) lets see the opposite, people with no where to go, constantly on the run trying to find somewhere safe becuase they ran out of options... that would be cool. Living it up in a mall is a cool idea that seems to be fine until someone screws up and makes a stupid mistake, then ruins it for everyone. What if they enver had the chance to live it up in safety, what if running was the only option?
at last..... some one has got the right idea..... zombies on a large scale!!!
the only thing that lets a good zombie movie down is the fact that most of the shouting is done in doors, ok you know that they have taken over the world!!! but you never get to see this!
dawn of the dead ( romero ) worked well because they tried to shoot as much of the film as they could with the budget they had, outside.
for me, i want to really see zombies in dead cities.... huge dead cities!! nothging else will do!!
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Zack Snyder has achieved one of those rare Hollywood survival scenarios. He directed a remake of a cult classic film and survived. Not only did he survive the making of Dawn of the Dead (which even original director George Romero professed enjoyment for), but Snyder has gone on to win fanboys over with his adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300. Everyone knows his next project is another comic book adaptation - this time the legendary Watchmen, but Snyder’s not stopping there. He wants to head back to his roots.
March 27th, 2007 at 14:51
I love zombie movies and im tired of waiting for a really good one... Dawn of the Dead was the last good one that I saw. Land of the Dead was terrible... I just didnt like it. I like the idea of people on the brink of the world being taken over by zombies forced to be on the run. Instead of holing up somewhere (like in Dawn) lets see the opposite, people with no where to go, constantly on the run trying to find somewhere safe becuase they ran out of options... that would be cool. Living it up in a mall is a cool idea that seems to be fine until someone screws up and makes a stupid mistake, then ruins it for everyone. What if they enver had the chance to live it up in safety, what if running was the only option?