Zombies hit Las Vegas in Zack Snyder heist movie ‘Army of the Dead’

After a decade making some of Hollywood’s biggest superhero movies, director Zack Snyder has returned to the monsters who made his name — zombies, who this time have taken over Las Vegas.

In “Army of the Dead,” which hits limited theaters Friday and Netflix May 21, the desert gambling metropolis has been sealed off after being overrun by blood-splattered, flesh-chomping hordes of the undead.

A gun-toting group of mercenaries attempts to infiltrate the city to retrieve millions of dollars from a vault beneath the Strip, with just hours to spare before a nuclear bomb is dropped on Sin City’s grisly residents.

For a director who made his name with a 2004 remake of George A. Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead” — which itself satirized rabid consumerism by setting zombies loose in a shopping mall — it was an easy pitch.

“It’s a zombie movie about a gang of zombie killers who go into zombie-infested Vegas to get the money out,” Snyder recalled telling the bosses at Netflix.

“So it wasn’t like they were like, ‘Oh, geez, let’s not make that movie. No one wants to see that!'”

But for all its brash, high-octane fun, the movie — an homage to genre films like “Escape from New York” and “Aliens”, and heist movies such as “Ocean’s Eleven” — carries genuine emotional heft for Snyder.

It is his first brand-new film since having to walk away from directing the star-studded DC superhero epic “Justice League” in 2017 following the suicide of his daughter.

Snyder, 55, dreamt up the idea for a “zombie heist” movie years earlier, but rewrote it to center on the relationship between tough-as-nails father Scott (Dave Bautista) and his estranged daughter Kate (Ella Purnell.)

“As a human being I have evolved from when I made ‘Dawn,'” he told a virtual press conference…..read more

 

Source: France24

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