Army of Thieves Trailer Sets Up Netflix’s Army of the Dead Prequel Movie
Netflix’s zombie smash hit “Army of the Dead” has a prequel coming this fall from the original film’s star, Matthias Schweighöfer.
He’s the director and star of “Army of Thieves,” the set-up
film to Zack Snyder’s wildly popular zombie movie.
Schweighöfer plays small-town bank teller Dieter, who gets
drawn into the adventure of a lifetime when a mysterious woman recruits him to
join a crew of Interpol’s most wanted criminals attempting to heist a sequence
of legendary, impossible-to-crack safes across Europe.
The screenplay comes from Shay Hatten, who co-wrote “Army of
the Dead” with Joby Harold. The cast of “Army of Thieves” includes Nathalie
Emmanuel, Ruby O. Fee, Stuart Martin, Guz Khan, and Jonathan Cohen. Producers
are Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder, Wesley Coller, Dan Maag, and Schweighöfer,
from a story developed by Snyder and Hatten.
Zombies are expected to feature in Army of Thieves as well,
Snyder previously revealed, though Netflix claims there are no zombies here. No
other Army of the Dead characters — except Schweighöfer's Ludwig — are expected
to appear in Army of Thieves.
Army of Thieves is out October 29 on Netflix around the
world.