Watch the Wild First Trailer for ‘Army of the Dead’ Prequel

If you thought “Army of the Dead” could be a one-and-done story, you had been very flawed. Netflix has had a complete franchise within the works since earlier than that movie dominated the streamer’s charts. There’s an animated prequel collection on the best way, together with a live-action prequel movie specializing in the safecracker Ludwig Dieter referred to as “Army of Thieves” — which we simply bought a sick trailer for in the course of the movie’s Comic-Con@Home panel.

You can watch it within the embed above.

We’ve bought excellent news for these weren’t into the very dour vibe of “Army of the Dead” — “Army of Thieves,” which isn’t directed by Zack Snyder, appears to be like loads sillier, and simply typically extra in step with your normal motion film by way of tone. On the flip aspect of that, in the event you had been actually into the dour vibe of “Army of the Dead,” then this may be irritating.

In any case, producer Deborah Snyder described “Army of Thieves” as “a romantic comedy heist film,” and so in that mild, the shift in tone makes a number of sense.

“Army of Thieves” takes place when the zombie outbreak is simply getting began, and tells the story of one other action-packed heist that Dieter was part of earlier than “Army of the Dead.” And judging by the trailer, this heist is the place he realized to interrupt into that fancy vault in Vegas — as a result of it appears to be like an terrible lot like this job additionally entails a type of issues.

Dieter is the one character from “Army of the Dead” returning in “Army of Thieves,” and that additionally in all probability demanded a tonal shift since he was actually the least critical character amongst that forged. Matthias Schweighofer, the actor who performs Dieter, additionally directed the movie.

Snyder co-wrote the story for the prequel with screenwriter Shay Hatten. Aside from Schweighofer, “Army of Thieves” will star Nathalie Emmanual of “Fast & Furious” and “Game of Thrones” fame. There’s no launch date simply but.