Back in 2008, commercial filmmaker
Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. signed on to make his feature directing debut on the
Zack Snyder-developed
Army of the Dead, a follow-up to Snyder's 2004 zombie pic
Dawn of the Dead. When the project stalled, van Heijningen went on to helm Universal's
The Thing instead, but continued to harbor hopes that
Army of the Dead would take off eventually; as recently as this past fall, van Heijningen ...