Army of the Dead: Dave Bautista wades through dead bodies in new image

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Although Zack Snyder has spent much of his career in the realm of superheroes, his first feature-film was a surprisingly decent remake of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead, and seventeen years later, Snyder is set to the return to the genre and unleash more zombie mayhem with Army of the Dead.

We'll finally be receiving the first trailer for Army of the Dead tomorrow morning (we'll be sure to have that up for you as soon as it drops), but in the meantime, a new image from the film has been released which finds Dave Bautista wading through a piles of dead bodies as director/co-writer Snyder explains what the heck is going on.

Army of the Dead is "set amid a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, during which a man assembles a group of mercenaries to take the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantined zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted." Snyder has previously said that the film 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." As Snyder mentioned, although the film is certainly a zombie movie, it will be playing with more genres than his remake of Dawn of the Dead.

With Dawn, we made a zombie movie but tried to do it all the way with all of those tropes of the genre. That was so fun, so I started to think of what were other genres that story didn't have room for. It's this tone where you have fun with the genre but you don't make fun of the genre — it's a fine line.

Army of the Dead will debut on Netflix on May 21, 2021.