Zack Sny­der has com­plet­ed shoot­ing his Army of the Dead

Though Zack Sny­der has yet to release his per­son­al cut of Jus­tice League, despite the shall-we-say pas­sion­ate requests from a high­ly vocal fan­base, the pop­corn auteur will soon for­sake the world of com­ic books and get back to his genre roots. He’s going all the way back, to the very begin­ning of his fil­mog­ra­phy, and back to the zom­bie picture.

After mak­ing his direc­to­r­i­al debut in 2004 with a remake of Dawn of the Dead, Sny­der will join the ranks of the rean­i­mat­ed corpses once again for his next fea­ture, Army of the Dead. It won’t be long until Snyder’s devo­tees can feast their eyes on his lat­est, either, as he announced today on the sur­pris­ing­ly exis­tent social media plat­form Vero that he’s wrapped up shoot­ing on the film.

The film attempts cold fusion between the walk­ing-dead and heist gen­res, join­ing a crack squad of mer­ce­nar­ies on a per­ilous mis­sion to boost a mas­sive pay­load from a post-apoc­a­lyp­tic Las Vegas crawl­ing with flesh eaters. Dave Bautista leads the crew, an ensem­ble of minor names most notably includ­ing Gar­rett Dil­lahunt, Chris D’Elia, and Saman­tha Win.

Sny­der appears to be fol­low­ing the exam­ple of last year’s The Hur­ri­cane Heist, anoth­er mash-up that stuffed a theft caper down the gul­let of a dis­as­ter-porn pic­ture with all the trim­mings. Recep­tion was mixed-to-poor, with the con­sen­sus being that the film had only suc­ceed­ed in bungling two movies instead of doing one to com­ple­tion, but per­haps Sny­der will be able to crack the code.

Net­flix has already laid claim to this extreme­ly Net­flix-sound­ing project, a sec­ond big-tick­et acqui­si­tion of a would-be block­buster from a known block­buster wiz­ard to fol­low their pur­chase of Michael Bay​’s next film. Will they put either project on the big screen, where all of its sound and fury can be real­ized to the fullest extent? Smart mon­ey says yes, but Net­flix likes to keep the pub­lic on its toes, so who knows.

Army of the Dead will come to Net­flix in 2020.