Army of the Dead: Zack Snyder discusses his new film in video interview

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Director Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead (read our review HERE) is currently in theatres, enjoying a one week theatrical run before it moves over to the Netflix streaming service this Friday, May 21st. Now that the film is making its way out into the world, our own Chris Bumbray had the opportunity to speak with Snyder about it, and you can check out their conversation in the video embedded above.

In the video, Snyder discusses his choice of aspect ratio for Army of the Dead, and a bit about the Army of the Dead projects we'll be seeing in the future: an animated prequel series called Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas, which will serve as an origin story for Dave Bautista's character Scott, and the live-action prequel Army of Thieves, which centers on the Army of the Dead character played by Matthias Schweighöfer (who also directed the movie).
 
Written by Snyder with Joby Harold and Shay Hatten, Army of the Dead is an adventure film that takes place after

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.

Snyder produced the film with Deborah Snyder and Wesley Coller.