that part of the movie really became a lot more important to me than maybe it was 15 years ago.' 'And just having the relationship I have with my children and being a dad. 'As a human being I have evolved from when I made 'Dawn,'' he told a virtual press conference. Snyder, 55, dreamt up the idea for a 'zombie heist' movie years earlier, but rewrote it to center on the relationship between tough-as-nails father Scott (Dave Bautista) and his estranged daughter Kate (Ella Purnell.) It is his first brand-new film since having to walk away from directing the star-studded DC superhero epic 'Justice League' in 2017 following the suicide of his daughter. No one wants to see that!''īut for all its brash, high-octane fun, the movie - an homage to genre films like 'Escape from New York' and 'Aliens', and heist movies such as 'Ocean's Eleven' - carries genuine emotional heft for Snyder. 'So it wasn't like they were like, 'Oh, geez, let's not make that movie.
'It's a zombie movie about a gang of zombie killers who go into zombie-infested Vegas to get the money out,' Snyder recalled telling the bosses at Netflix. Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead' - which itself satirized rabid consumerism by setting zombies loose in a shopping mall - it was an easy pitch. For a director who made his name with a 2004 remake of George A.
