Zack Snyder is ready to make a new movie. The project is called Army Of The Dead, and it’s one that Netflix has lifted off Warner Bros’ development plate. There’s no information on why WB decided to pass the project on to the streaming service at this time, but the budget is reportedly in the $90 million range, so it’ll be no cheap affair for Netflix.
Army Of The Dead will be Snyder’s first film since he stepped off the set of Justice League after a family tragedy, famously handing over the reins to Avengers director Joss Whedon.
THR got the exclusive on Snyder’s comeback flick, which will be set “amid a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, during which a man assembles a group of mercenaries to take the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantined zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted.”
“There are no handcuffs on me at all with this one,” Snyder told THR. “I thought this was a good palate cleanser to really dig in with both hands and make something fun and epic and crazy and bonkers in the best possible way.
While he still loves the comic book movies of his past, the director is clearly excited about somewhat going back to his Dawn Of The Dead roots:
“I love to honour canon and the works of art, but this is the opportunity to find a purely joyful way to express myself though a genre. It will be the most kick-ass, self-aware — but not in a wink-to-the-camera way — balls-to-the-wall zombie freakshow that anyone has ever seen. No one’s ever let me completely loose [like this].”
Snyder seems eager to get back in the game now, enthusing “I love big action, I love big sequences. My movie brain starts clicking around and I was like, ‘We need to be shooting this now!’ Constructing these sequences really fired me up.”
He also told THR that he’s spent the last few years reconnecting “with photography”, noting that his last few films had been of such scope that they’d pushed him “away from the camera.”
More on Army Of The Dead as it arrives.