"By the time I came to it, it was like Zack had redeveloped it in so many different fascinating directions that I was coming into it and going, "Whoa" — mind-blown by all the world-building he'd done. The way that you do a space opera that feels different from "Star Wars" is it's filtered through the imagination of Zack Snyder. Naturally, by extent of that, it's going to have a completely different tone and flavor that is going to be exciting to people. Zack is one of the best world-builders we have, so I'll work for him as long as I possibly can."
Shay Hatten, Looper
Shay Hatten is an American screenwriter and film producer, the bulk of whose work is that of his projects from The Stone Quarry and the John Wick franchise.
His first The Stone Quarry project was writing the screenplay for Army of the Dead based on Zack Snyder and Joby Harold's story. He then helped develop the story and wrote the screenplay for Army of Thieves. He was the screenwriter and executive producer for Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas as well as the screenwriter for Rebel Moon based on the story from Snyder and Kurt Johnstad. He's currently developing the story for Planet of the Dead with Snyder and will also write the screenplay. He and Snyder have plans for a third sequential Army of the Dead movie following Planet of the Dead. Hatten appeared in the fourth Snyder School episode, "World Building".