Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead Has Easter Egg for Dawn of the Dead Remake ✖ Dawn of the Dead remake. At the time the idea of remaking George A. Romero's 1978 classic was considered sacrilege but the film ended up a success and helped launch Snyder forward. He would dabble mostly in superheroes after that but he recently returned to the world of the undead with Netflix's Army of the Dead, a project that has been in development for over 10 years and which, despite a similar naming convention, isn't connected to the 2004 film. Or is it? As noticed by @MoviesThatMaher on Twitter (H/T