Zack Snyder came up with the premise for an original zombie movie more than a decade ago — years after breaking out with his remake and before entering the DC superhero machine — and passed the idea off to another writer to pen for a different director.
That version was never brought to life, though it eventually made its way to Netflix, who approached Snyder about the prospect of making it.«When the movie came back around, I literally said, 'I'm not even going to read the draft.
I know the story,'» he tells ET's Ash Crossan. Working from memory, he speedily «banged out» his own version of the screenplay with co-writer Shay Hatten ().
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