New Trailer for Zack Snyder’s ‘Army of the Dead’ Introduces Smart Zombies and an Undead Tiger!
Two words. Zombie. Tiger.
Seventeen years after he introduced himself to horror fans with a new take on George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, Zack Snyder (Batman v. Superman, Justice League) is headed back into the zombie arena with his upcoming new movie Army of the Dead, which is headed to select theaters May 14th and also directly to the Netflix streaming service on May 21st.
The brand new official trailer was debuted by Netflix today, along with some insights from Snyder. “It’s kind of a genre-busting movie,” Snyder explained during a preview of the trailer Bloody Disgusting attended this morning. “It knows what it is, and it allows there to be a little bit of that kind of dry humor. Visually, it does the same thing. There’s a funny aspect to it.”
This second trailer makes it clear that Snyder is dealing with smarter, more evolved zombies this time around, something that George Romero increasingly focused on throughout the course of his own zombie universe. But unlike in Romero’s world, it looks like even animals are susceptible to the virus in Snyder’s world, with the new trailer introducing a zombie tiger.
“Zombie animals were [always] going to be part of it. The only creatures immune from the zombie virus are birds,” Snyder noted, teasing a menagerie of undead animals in the film.
“We have two categories of zombies in the movie,” Snyder continued during the preview event today. “The Alphas and the [traditional] Shamblers. Our Alphas are the evolved version of zombies, they’ve taken another step. They’re much faster, and we kind of treat them like wolves… they’re sentient. They kind of fight in packs, and kind of have a pack mentality.”
Meet Snyder’s literal “Army of the Dead” in the brand new trailer below!
In the Netflix movie…
“Army of the Dead takes place following a zombie outbreak that has left Las Vegas in ruins and walled off from the rest of the world. When Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), a displaced Vegas local, former zombie war hero who’s now flipping burgers on the outskirts of the town he now calls home, is approached by casino boss Bly Tanaka (Hiroyuki Sanada), it’s with the ultimate proposition: Break into the zombie-infested quarantine zone to retrieve $200 million sitting in a vault beneath the strip before the city is nuked by the government in 32 hours.
“Driven by the hope that the payoff could help pave the way to a reconciliation with his estranged daughter Kate (Ella Purnell), Ward takes on the challenge, assembling a ragtag team of experts for the heist. They include Maria Cruz (Ana de la Reguera), an ace mechanic and Ward’s old friend; Vanderohe (Omari Hardwick), a zombie killing machine; Marianne Peters (Tig Notaro), a cynical helicopter pilot; Mikey Guzman (Raúl Castillo), a go-for-broke influencer and Chambers (Samantha Win), his ride-or-die; Martin (Garret Dillahunt), the casino’s head of security; a badass warrior known as the Coyote (Nora Arnezeder) who recruits Burt Cummings (Theo Rossi), a slimy security guard; and a brilliant German safe cracker named Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer).
“Scott finds an unexpected emotional hurdle when Kate joins the expedition to search for Geeta (Huma S. Qureshi), a mother who’s gone missing inside the city. With a ticking clock, a notoriously impenetrable vault, and a smarter, faster horde of Alpha zombies closing in, only one thing’s for certain in the greatest heist ever attempted: survivors take all.”
The film is written by Zack Snyder, Shay Hatten and Joby Harold.
Army of the Dead is also getting a live-action prequel *and* an animated prequel series.
