Dawn Of The Dead: Ving Rhames and Sarah Polley are in final negotiations to star in Dawn of the Dead, a reinvention of the 1978 horror film of the same name, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The Universal project goes into production next month. Zack Snyder will direct from a script by James Gunn.

The remake, like the original, is about a mysterious plague that causes the newly dead to rise from their graves and begin to eat the living. During the chaos, a core group of remaining humans takes refuge in a shopping mall.

These include a young nurse (Polley), the police-uniformed Kenneth (Rhames), a mall employee who works at Best Buy, a gangbanger and his pregnant Russian girlfriend.

Dawn Of The Dead was released May 24th, 1978 and stars David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross, David Crawford, David Early, Richard France, Howard Smith. The film is directed by George A. Romero.