Zach Snyder Shares First Look at 'Army of the Dead'

Yesterday director Zach Snyder and Entertainment Weekly exclusively revealed the first images from the upcoming film Army of the Dead. In this zombie movie Snyder and co will take you along on a “Zombie heist movie.” Even though those are things that don’t seem like they go together, writer-director Zack Snyder says his Netflix movie is a genre mashup.

“It is a full-blown, balls-to-the-wall zombie heist movie, so it’s genre-on-genre in a great way,” Snyder (Man of Steel, 300) told EW. “So you expect pure zombie mayhem, and you get that, 100 percent. But also you get these really amazing characters on a fantastic journey. It’s going to surprise people that there’s a lot of warmth and real emotion with these great characters.”

Snyder says that the idea came from his time working on his 2004 remake of George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. In Army of the Dead, a plague has been released from Nevada’s Area 51 military base. The U.S. government came in a walled off an overrun Las Vegas. “But there’s still all that cash in zombie-infested casinos, if only somebody is brave (or dumb) enough to try to go and get it.”

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“With Dawn, we made a zombie movie but tried to do it all the way with all of those tropes of the genre,” Snyder says. “That was so fun, so I started to think of what were other genres that story didn’t have room for. It’s this tone where you have fun with the genre but you don’t make fun of the genre — it’s a fine line.”

Director Zach Snyder hasn’t given a release date, yet. For now we will just have to wait for the Army of the Dead trailer. The film stars Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Ana De La Reguera, Theo Rossi, Matthias Schweighöfer, Nora Arnezeder, Hiroyuki Sanada, Garret Dillahunt, Tig Notaro, Raúl Castillo, Huma Qureshi, Samantha Win, Richard Cetrone and Michael Cassidy. Be sure to follow ScaryNerd for more of all things horror.