As Matthias Schweighöfer’s Ludwig Dieter takes centre stage in the new Army of Thieves trailer, all kind of robbery action is teased.
In the first trailer for Netflix’s upcoming prequel, Army of Thieves, return to the action-packed world of Army of the Dead. Matthias Schweighöfer’s character, Ludwig Dieter takes centre stage in this new season. He puts his ability of breaking into any safe to good use during the early years of the zombie breakout. the film teases the kind of high-octane, fast-paced heist shenanigans that fans of the previous adventure adored.
Dieter, who is a small-town bank teller, is dragged into what turns out to be the adventure of a lifetime when a shadowy woman recruits him to join a squad of Interpol’s most wanted criminals. This gang attempts to rob a series of renowned, impossible-to-crack safes across Europe in this prequel to Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead.
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This one has Zack Snyder on board as a producer, with Matthias Schweighöfer assuming the reins as director. Army of Thieves has cast Nathalie Emmanuel, Guz Khan, Ruby O. Fee, Stuart Martin, Jonathan Cohen, Noemie Nakai, and Peter Simonischek in the zombie-infested realm of criminality, based on a script by Shay Hatten and an original story co-written by Snyder and Hatten.
Army of Thieves, like its predecessor, has been described as a “not-your-average zombie movie”.In reality, the prequel isn’t being marketed as a zombie film at all. The creators liked the notion of setting it in a universe where zombies existed, but it wasn’t a zombie picture. Who’s done a prequel that isn’t in the same genre as the original? During the recent Comic-Con@Home panel, producer Deborah Snyder teased. This is more of a romantic comedy heist film to her than anything else.
Snyder’s new Army of the Dead franchise includes Army of Thieves, with the filmmaker recently securing a new first-look contract with Netflix and revealing that a straight sequel is also in the works. They’ve only begun to scratch the surface of what they can do and build with Zack, Deb, Wes, and the rest of the Stone Quarry team, according to Netflix’s Scott Stuber.