Dawn of the Dead

He followed up Dawn of the Dead by directing and contributing to the script for 300, a stylishly violent historical epic about the Battle of Thermopylae starring Gerard Butler as the Spartan king Leonidas. Snyder quickly gained a reputation for his aesthetic eye and cinematography, blending moody darkness…

…followed it up by cowriting Dawn of the Dead (2004)—a reinterpretation of the 1978 zombie classic—and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), which were both major money-spinners, becoming consecutive number-one hits at the box office. Gunn made his directorial debut with the zombie flick Slither (2006), for which he also wrote…

…Zack Snyder’s hit zombie movie Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Wim Wenders’s Don’t Come Knocking (2005), she costarred with Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgård in Sturla Gunnarsson’s Beowulf & Grendel (2006). She also worked in television, appearing with her father in the critically acclaimed Canadian TV series Slings and…