Army of Thieves: Netflix Release Date, Cast Everything We Know So Far

The sequel to the Netflix movie Army of the Dead is actually a prequel: it is titled Army of Thieves and focuses on the life of Dieter (Matthias Schweighofer) before he was ‘invited’ to open the safe of a zombie infested casino in Las Vegas. Now we tell you more about the plot, be patient. Before we want to advance you that you will not have to wait long to see it, its premiere in theaters and Netflix is ​​scheduled for before the end of this year, regardless of how the pandemic evolves. In fact, the film was shot before the release of the Army of the Dead; come on, before we knew if the new Zack Snyder movie was going to be successful or not. Although I also tell you that any movie with a glamorous circus zombie tiger and a perfect combination of the undead and robberies ‘American’ has to be (which is not the case) not to be successful.

What is Story About?

The first thing to know is that it is one of several sequels that are coming to Netflix (such as The Old Guard and Enola Holmes ) and that Zack Snyder will not be the director this time, but Matthias Schweighofer himself.

About the story, Snyder said that: “The prequel focuses on the story of Dieter, the character of Matthias. We learn how he became interested in safes and about Hans Wagner, responsible for three other safes named all of them as the ‘cycle of the ring. ‘The Army of the Dead safe is the final chapter of Richard Wagner’s opera . We use each chapter for each of the different safes that are scattered around the world. “

This suggests that we are going to see how Dieter managed to open the two previous safes that Snyder mentions, which led him to build his reputation as the only man who could have helped the Army of the Dead team finish their mission in Las Vegas.

Army of Thieves Cast

Matthias Schweighofer, appears again as Dieter, while the cast is completed by Nathalie Emmanuel (who you probably remember for her role in Game of Thrones, and her tragic death), Stuart Martin, Guz Khan, Ruby O’Fee, Jonathan Cohen , Noémi Nakai and Peter Simonischek.

Everything indicates that the zombies do not play a role here since these actors are part of the group of thieves who work with Dieter and who help him defeat those safes that he is so obsessed with.

Army of Thieves Release Date?

The film is already filmed and Snyder revealed that it release in the second half of 2021, but it has not been announced for summer releases, so we can think that it will arrive in the fall or winter, with a premiere that will also take it. to movie theaters.

It goes something like this: Snyder is convinced that television series have changed the way movies are also consumed, at least when you are not consuming them in a movie theater. Hence, after releasing Army of the Dead, the next steps in creating a new franchise are a film prequel and an animated series for Netflix, without ruling out an Army of the Dead 2 if all this works. The prequel, for now, already has an official poster.

“People do not want to wait. They are used to the series, they want to binge,” said Snyder, who has not directed Army of Thieves (behind the camera is none other than Matthias Schweighofer), during the promotion of the Army of the dead. “There’s so much content now that you just forget. Army of the Dead, what is that? Oh yeah, that zombie movie from a couple of years ago …” Snyder is clearly right: look at the short time in which Tyler Rake 2 or Enola Holmes 2 has been given the green light on Netflix, two films, characters and stories, likely to create a new universe on the streaming platform such as the one Snyder proposes for his new Alpha zombies.

It is not usual for a sequel, or a prequel, to be practically ready at the same time as the first installment of the saga, especially if it is not to take advantage of sets or reconcile agendas of actors and directors, but if you think that Army of Thieves is framed Within a universe of series and films, the cinematic universe of the Army of the Dead, with different directors and different formats (an anime series, Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas, which will also serve as a prequel, has already entered production) , it makes perfect sense. The saga has been conceived as an entertainment product for quick consumption on the streaming platform and that is not necessarily a bad thing. In the end, it is not so different from the new way that Marvel Studios has proposed to consume films and series on the Disney + digital platform: are not many of the new series supposed to be presented as six-hour films, rationed in weekly installments 40-50 minutes (WandaVision falls outside, but Falcon and Winter Soldier and Loki do fall into this category).

It is also true that this rhythm for a traditional film studio is unthinkable. “Could this movie [read: this zombie cinematic universe] be made by a studio and released by a studio?” Snyder reflected in an interview during the promo. “The truth is, Netflix is one of the biggest studios in the world; they push a button and 200 million people have this movie in their living room. That’s a pretty powerful distribution platform.”

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