“I said ‘Let me tell you the idea and we’ll just do it from scratch’. “When I sat down with Shay Hatten, I told him ‘Let’s not read the old script’, Snyder recalls. As he explains, though, his original vision for the film hasn’t dramatically changed in the intervening years, save for one personal alteration. In a sense, it’s poetic that Snyder would resuscitate a movie about the undead over a decade later. With his Warner Bros commitments ending with 2017’s Justice League – this year’s Snyder Cut of the same movie aside – Snyder’s search for his next venture eventually led him back to the idea he conceived years earlier. However, a plethora of problems, including a costly budget, put paid to those plans and the project was put on ice. A concept born during his time on Dawn of the Dead, Snyder had initially hired writer Joby Harolds to pen a script ahead of his project’s original March 2007 announcement.
However, when the group is unexpectedly joined by Ward’s daughter Kate (Ella Purnell) and Tanaka’s Head of Security Martin (Garret Dillahunt) with mysterious assignments of their own, survival – not money – becomes their number one priority.Īrmy of the Dead is Snyder’s first non-superhero movie since 2014’s 300: Rise of an Empire, but it’s an idea he’s had for some time.
