Zack Snyder's upcoming film is a Netflix zombie thriller

By Colin Stevens

Zack Snyder, known for his work on Batman v Superman, Watchmen and 300, will lead a zombie thriller for Netflix.

Announced by Netflix See the rest Twitter account, the movie will call Army of the Dead and presents a group of mercenaries who "take the ultimate gamble: to visit a quarantine area following an epidemic of zombies to achieve the greatest robbery never tried ".

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Snyder will direct and produce the film with his partner and wife Deborah through their production company Stone Quarry. The story comes from Snyder and the script is run by Joby Harold. Netflix would take over Warner Bros.'s project.

The army of the dead is a long-standing project for Snyder – IGN reported for the first time in March 2007. At the time, the scenario would be in the not-too-distant future of the city of Las Vegas. . quarantined. The action revolves around a father trying to save his daughter from zombies. Snyder's first film, Dawn of the Dead, was a critical and commercial success. We do not know yet if this film has a direct link with his film of 2004.

"There are no handcuffs on me with this one," Snyder said. "It's an opportunity to find a purely happy way to express myself through a genre.It will be the most exciting, the most self-conscious – but not in the blink of an eye." on camera – freakshow zombie balls on the wall that someone has ever seen.Nobody has ever left me completely loose [like this]. "

This is Zack Snyder's first management project since leaving the Justice League after a family tragedy.

In other news from Zack Snyder, find out how his Batman Batman are now official DC guns and how he wanted to introduce a Robin woman to the DCEU.

Colin Stevens is a news writer for IGN. Follow on Twitter.