ARMY OF THE DEAD Trailer Shows Off a Zombie Heist
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In most zombie movies, the living’s only concern is survival. Sometime that’s because they’re in immediate danger when the outbreak starts. Like in George A. Romero’s 1968 classic
Night of the Living Dead. Other times, surviving is the only thing that matters because society has all but collapsed. That’s what happened to the UK in 2002’s
28 Days Later.
But what if only certain places fall to the dead, and a single space confines those ghouls? What would that mean to those who safely live outside of danger, in a still functioning world? In Zack Snyder’s new Netflix film
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Netflix has released the official full-length trailer for Army of the Dead, the upcoming zombie-apocalypse action thriller from Zack Snyder, the director of 300, Watchmen, Dawn of the Dead, and Zack Snyder s Justice League.
The Netflix original film, set in the aftermath of a global zombie outbreak, stars Guardians of the Galaxy s Dave Bautista as a former military soldier who fought valiantly in the zombie war but now works as a burger-flipping cook at a roadside diner just outside Las Vegas, which is now walled off from the rest of the world.
When Bautista s Scott Ward is propositioned by a wealthy casino businessman (Hiroyuki Sanada), he agrees to break into the zombie-infested Vegas in order to retrieve $200 million sitting in a secret vault beneath the strip. The thing is Scott only has 32 hours before the walled-off city is nuked by the government. Scott will have to assemble the best mercenary team in the world to pull off the greatest
Zack Snyder. So hot right now. And Netflix has his next film,
Army of the Dead. The director’s return to the genre that made him famous dropped a new trailer showing off the most we’ve seen of the film yet, including the fact that the film’s zombies aren’t just of the fast kind (a version of zombie that Snyder helped usher in), but also the smart kind. Check out Netflix’s official
In typical Snyder fashion, the
Army of the Dead trailer kicks off with a popular slow song (Kenny Rogers this time), though this one picks up by the end as the trailer explodes into nonstop slow-motion pans of people shooting bullets and zombies… making out? The movie follows a group of criminals who are hired to steal a fortune from a safe in Las Vegas. The difference between this film and other Vegas heist movies, however, is that Vegas is infested with zombies. As the trailer shows, these zombies have evolved a bit during their time locked off from the rest of the world. It seems they