Oct 27, 2007, 11:6 pm

[table=250][tr][td][/td][/tr][/table]I think everyone is in agreement that Zack Snyder\\\'s take on DAWN OF THE DEAD is one of the few surprises to come out of the recent rash of remake mania. He follows it up with the ground breaking 300 and tonight brings word that he is set to return to the zombie realm with ARMY OF THE DEAD. STYD got the scoop and now we pass it along to you: \\\"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.\\\'\\\" Based on a story by Zack and written by Awake\\\'s Joby Harold, \\\"Army\\\" is described as a picture larger in scale than Snyder\\\'s 2004 \\\"Dawn\\\" redux. \\\"Basically, something happened in Vegas and there was this huge outbreak of these zombies that were killing people,\\\" Deborah explains. \\\"So to contain it they basically contain Vegas. The city is this wasteland with walls around it and all of these zombies are inside. One of our characters goes in there to investigate and gets trapped inside and her father goes in to search for her. He can\\\'t do it alone so he gets a group of mercenaries under the guise that there\\\'s money still in the casinos, because they don\\\'t care about his daughter. There\\\'s also a plotline of what\\\'s really going on - like, the containment isn\\\'t so contained and there are cover-ups. We think it\\\'s really fun. \\\'Dawn\\\' was set in a mall and come on, Vegas is the perfect place to set a zombie film and you can have a lot of fun with that!\\\" Something that film makers seem to like about zombies in Vegas. This one sounds good and with Snyder\\\'s freshman and sophmore efforts being what they were, I\\\'d put my money on this one kicking ass.