In the hustle and bustle of Tuesday night’s Saturn Awards ceremony in Universal City, California, ShockTillYouDrop.com managed to squeeze a mini-update from Zack and Deborah Snyder (300) regarding Army of the Dead which the pair are producing.

With director Matthijs van Heijningen locked in place, Zack, who is busy in post-production on Watchmen, hopes shooting will begin, “Really soon. The studio [Warner Bros.] seems to love our director and love our script. The movie, for me, is all about spectacle and being crazy, so it’s just trying to find a balance with the studio.”

Deborah adds, “We’re hoping to start this fall.”

Written by Joby Harold, Army of the Dead is set in a quarantined Las Vegas in the not-too-distant future and focuses on a father who tries to save his daughter from imminent death in a zombie-infested world.

BY: Ryan Rotten
Source: ShockTilYouDrop

Immersing oneself in the world of the long-awaited big screen adaptation of Watchmen is an enviable, however protracted, duty director Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead, 300) committed himself to this year leaving room in his life for not much else. But during this writer’s visit to the Vancouver set (on behalf of ComingSoon.net), ShockTillYouDrop.com found out progress is being made on the Snyder-produced Army of the Dead.

“We’re meeting with directors right now,” co-producer and wife Deborah Snyder exclusively tells us. Under their production banner Cruel & Unusual Films, the Snyders are developing the film for Warner Bros. “That’s a little hard [to do] because we’re here [on set] and every day is killer. We want the right person for it. The script has been turned in to the studio and they’re really happy with it, with pretty minimal notes back, so they said, ‘Hey, let’s get a director.’” (more…)

Warner Bros. is reteaming with “300″ helmer Zack Snyder on “Army of the Dead,” a zombie actioner he’ll produce with wife Deborah Snyder through their Cruel & Unusual Films shingle.

Source: Variety