Zack Snyder to Direct ARMY OF THE DEAD for Netflix

Justice League director Zack Snyder has signed on to direct Army of the Dead, a zombie horror thriller, for Netflix, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Snyder will direct and produce the film with his partner and wife, Deborah Snyder, via their newly rebranded production company, Stone Quarry.

Snyder came up with the film's story, which was then written Joby Harold. The adventure is 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.

Netflix, which is taking over the project from Warner Bros., where it was first set up in 2007, is going full throttle with Army. The movie will begin shooting this summer, with a budget in the $90 million range.

Snyder tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview that, "There are no handcuffs on me at all with this one."

Snyder was in postproduction on Justice League when his and Deborah's daughter committed suicide. They decided to step away from the film, and since then have been out of the spotlight.

"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," he says.

Snyder says he's been energized by this story, "I love big action, I love big sequences," he says. "My movie brain starts clicking around and I was like, 'We need to be shooting this now!' Constructing these sequences really fired me up."

Read the original article on The Hollywood Reporter.

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