Army of the Dead - new info!
Chud.com is reporting that Dawn of the Dead remake director Zack Snyder and his wife Deborah Snyder (who was the executive producer of 300) are starting to talk about a few details of their upcoming Army of the Dead. I won’t link to the article because it has LOTS of pop-up windows and continually locks up my browser, but I’ve copied Deborah Snyder’s quote below:
…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.
Sounds like a rehash of the plot from Resident Evil: Apocalypse to me so I’m not trying to get my hopes up, despite Snyder’s awesome directing skills with Dawn of the Dead and 300.
Other than the brief appearance of a few Vegas landmarks, RE:Extinction could pretty much have taken place anywhere in the American southwest. Army of the Dead could still pretty much own the “zombies in Vegas” concept.