"Could this movie be made by a studio and released by a studio?" Snyder ponders. – who he worked with on, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Justice League – wouldn’t. Snyder reveals that the streamer bet big where his former studio Warner Bros. That sort of built-in franchise, with natural spinoffs and side stories sprouting out from the Sin City-set showpiece, feels like something it could only work with the hands-off style of Netflix. Because then you see the movie again, you'll understand a lot more – more of the story and more of the relationship between them." You’ll get more context of our characters," de la Reguera says. "You'll see a lot of our backstory, how everything started, what was our relationship, what we used to do before. "This will be a heist film and it will be a very, very big one with scenes you’ve never seen before," Schweighöfer says, adding that the project is in the "last days" of editing the project.Īna De La Reguera, whose character Maria Cruz takes part in the off-screen ‘Zombie Wars’ with Bautista’s Ward and Hardwick’s Vanderohe years prior to the movie, teases that the animated series will give further context to the characters and enrich any future Army of the Dead rewatch. But he’s up for the challenge – and is talking up his movie in a big way. Following in the footsteps of Zack Snyder, who Schweighöfer calls "one of the biggest directors and visionaries in the world", is no mean feat. Netflix, it seems, is willing to pay out the big bucks to keep Snyder’s franchise rolling.įor Schweighöfer, the live-action prequel presents an exciting opportunity. Alongside that is Lost Vegas, an animated series which fleshes out several of the main cast’s earlier years. Army of Thieves, directed by and starring Schweighöfer and co-starring Game of Thrones alumni Nathalie Emmanuel, has wrapped filming. On top of the main attraction, prequels are already planned. Ironically for a film about the undead, Army of the Dead allows Snyder to do what he does best: build a living, breathing world where new and diverse voices find the space to have their stories told. He's making everybody look like a hero." Looking backwards "That was a moment for me that I realized we're doing something pretty special here. "Shout out to Zack for equally allowing the world to see women in that space," Hardwick, who plays Scott’s old war buddy, Vanderohe, says. Not only was there a degree of improvisation to certain scenes that is fairly uncommon in big blockbusters ("There's no such thing as failure in Zack’s world," another member of the ensemble, Nora Arnezeder, notes), but the director refreshingly removes the testosterone-filled emphasis on wide-necked male action stars. Do that.’ So that was the start and the rest is history." "And we looked at Zack and Zack did a : ‘That's great. "Omari and me talked about what kind of movies we loved and we start with Lethal Weapon and we said this could be our own Mel Gibson/Danny Glover thing," Matthias Schweighöfer, who plays wisecracking safecracker Dieter, says of his on-screen double act with Omari Hardwick’s more stoic Vanderohe. Army of the Dead, most notably, doesn’t feel made-by-committee and, instead, revels in its ensemble’s ideas and strengths – even mid-production. It’s that loose, egalitarian approach that resonates most with the entire cast. “There’s no such thing as failure in Zack’s world” Nora Arnezeder
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