MOVIE NEWS – Netflix Army of the Dead is currently playing like gangbusters, with Zack Snyder‘s stock in the industry arguably higher than ever. His work has always tended to sow discord between critics and the general public, but he has mustered a huge amount of goodwill through the trials and tribulations of getting HBO Max Justice League over the finish line while the zombie actioner is also getting top reviews for one of his 2004 films Dawn of the Dead.

Free at last from the shackles of the DCEU, and without interference from Warner Bros. executives to deal with after severing their fifteen year working relationship, it will be extremely interesting to see where Snyder heads next. Army of the Dead is his first non-superhero project in a decade and just the second of his nine features to be based on an original concept, but in a new interview, the filmmaker said he would love to direct religiously inspired porn, though his tongue is firmly planted in his cheek.

“That kind of appreciation of the human form is something I really warmed to.

He continued, “I’ve always wanted to make a religious film and a pornographic film, and I’ve never really yet had the chance to do either.” He added, humorously, “Maybe if I could combine the two – or maybe 300 is that film, in some sense, a little bit. Or at least a primer for what that film could be.”

This would certainly lead to controversial counter-programming to Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and its developing sequel, but even the open-minded Netflix may balk at the idea of a [ sexually explicit ]. Zack Snyder film with religious undertones, or more likely overtones given his penchant for pomposity.

Over the years he has toyed with the drama of a war photographer at the helm Horse Latitudes an adaptation of Ayn Rand The Fountainhead a George Washington film in the vein of 300 and a mystical version of the Arthurian legend. He has not yet officially decided on his next directorial effort, but is producing Army of the Dead prequel Army of Thieves and animated spin-off Lost Vegas as well as a Netflix Animated Series inspired by Norse mythology.

Source: Movieweb