Army of Thieves: Release Date and Story And Everything About The Army Of The Dead Prequel

Army of Thieves is now a reality and it is a prequel that tells the story of one of the best Army of the Dead characters, who conquered the public despite not being the “protagonist”. Who is the best character in Zack Snyder’s zombie movie (besides the tiger and the pregnant zombie queen)? Dieter is the best character in the film and he is the protagonist of the prequel that tells the story of what he lived before the undead attacked Las Vegas and gave an eccentric millionaire the idea of ​​sending a team to recover a fortune. forgotten in one of the hotels.

In Army of the Dead, Dave Bautista assembled a group of “experts” who could help him fulfill his mission and came to Dieter (Matthias Schweighofer) because they needed someone who could open the huge and complicated safe of a casino where everyone money was safe.

A prequel to Army of the Dead hasn’t been ruled out (and the film’s ending left the story at a point where everything can quickly go to waste for the rest of the world), but that’s still to be confirmed and by now what is going to happen is the premiere of Army of Thieves, where we will be able to see what Dieter was doing before he was invited on that suicide mission.

“People don’t want to wait anymore. They’re used to series, they want to binge,” Snyder said during the Army of the Dead promotion. “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 …”

Army of Thieves: The Trailer

The full trailer features the entire team of thieves who will have to work together on the film. Description reads: In this prequel to Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, a small town bank teller, Dieter, is caught up in the adventure of his life when a mysterious woman recruits him to join a team of Interpol’s Most Wanted Criminals, in an attempt to rob a legendary and impossible sequence. -to break safes throughout Europe.

The previous teaser for the pre-string shows Nathalie Emmanuel, from Game of Thrones, recruiting Dieter for a special and potentially dangerous mission, it has nothing to do with zombies, but there are weapons, chases and millionaire robberies along with some of the criminals Interpol’s Most Wanted.

The synopsis says that: In this prequel to Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, a small-town bank teller, Dieter, is caught up in the adventure of a lifetime when a mysterious woman recruits him to join a team. of Interpol’s Most Wanted Criminals, in an attempt to rob a legendary and impossible sequence. -to break safes throughout Europe.

What is Army of Thieves all 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: The 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.

When Does It Premiere?

The movie is now finished and the Tudum event confirmed that it will arrive on October 29, 2021 worldwide on Netflix.