( Welcome to Tales from the Box Office , our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them. ) Universal Pictures once had the bright idea to remake one of the all-time horror classics in the form of George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead." It is, arguably, one of the greatest genre films ever made, so who would do such a thing? Why remake a perfect movie? More importantly, who would be crazy enough to make it? Well, two then-up-and-coming filmmakers in the form of James Gunn and Zack Snyder paired as writer and director, respectively, to do the seemingly unthinkable. Even more unthinkable? It worked like gangbusters, putting them both on a path to becoming two of the biggest filmmakers in Hollywood. To that end, Snyder became the man tasked with launching DC's shared cinematic universe, directing "Man of Steel," "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," and the highly-troubled &