Zack Snyder’s comeback to Zombie roots in an explosive Netflix movie ‘Army of the Dead’

17 years after his first Zombie film “Dawn of the Dead”, Zack Snyder returns to the genre with an explosive Netflix heist-action movie “Army of the Dead” whose trailer dropped just now. And it looks BIG!

Starring Dve Bautista, “Army of the Dead” follows a group of mercenaries who plot a heist on a Las Vegas casino during a zombie outbreak. The supporting cast includes Theo Rossi, Tig Notaro, Garret Dillahunt, Raúl Castillo, Omari Hardwick, Hiroyuki Sanada, Matthias Schweighöfer, Ella Purnell, and Ana de la Reguera.

Snyder told Entertainment Weekly earlier this year, “It is a full-blown, balls-to-the-wall zombie heist movie, so it’s genre-on-genre in a great way, 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.”

“Army of the Dead” sat in development hell at Warner Bros. for over 10 years before Netflix swooped in to purchase the distribution rights and get the film into production. The movie marks Snyder’s first non-Warner Bros. project since “300.”

“[Warner Bros.] didn’t want to spend that kind of money on a zombie movie,” Snyder told EW, “or just didn’t take it that seriously. I was always like, ‘Look guys, this is more than [just a zombie movie],’ but it fizzled out.”

Netflix loved the idea so much that it will expand it into a full-blown franchise, whose idea again, was a brain-child of Snyder. For now, Army of the Dead will stream globally on the platform on May 21st. Let’s get ready for some action!!!