Meanwhile the surviving human citizens live in a suspiciously authoritarian “quarantine camp” outside the walls. The epidemic ends with Sin City emptied of humans and the town quarantined with huge walls around it. I think that it was the sort of deconstruction of those two ideas in my mind that led me to what is Army.”Īrmy of the Dead is set in and around Las Vegas, where the accidental release of a zombie with seemingly superhuman strength from a military convoy leads to a massive outbreak of the living dead in the city. “That was really was the jumping off point for this exploration, because I’d done the zombie movie, and then I had this basic love for the genre and how it worked.
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Snyder says that combining the two was the key for him to make another movie based around the well-worn idea of the zombie apocalypse. He continues, “I think the conversation I was starting to have with myself is: What will people allow in this genre of film? So it really got me thinking about it, and I’ve always been a huge lover of those really insane, big, seminal genre movies, whether it be Planet of the Apes or Soylent Green, or The Omega Man, or Escape from New York, as well as mission movies like The Dirty Dozen, which I love.” These are things that people innately know.”
“When you do a zombie movie, even though it was the first time, I was exploring the genre, the different tropes of the genre and really was starting to get fascinated with the things in it that we all take for granted, whether it be that a zombie bite is infectious, or you shoot it in the head or whatever. “Just exploring Dawn, in doing that movie and taking it apart ,” Snyder tells us during a Zoom interview. To do that, he turned to the story for Army of the Dead, which had initially been developed as a direct sequel to the Dawn remake years earlier. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, which came out through Universal and was the movie that put Snyder on the map.Ĭoming back to horror-or in this case, a hybrid of the zombie movie and the heist thriller-was just what Snyder needed to clear his head after his complicated tenure with DC.
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Premiering on Netflix after a brief theatrical run, Army of the Dead is only the second movie of Snyder’s career not produced and distributed through Warner Bros. That genre is horror, more specifically the subgenre of zombie movies, and the film is called Army of the Dead. After spending a large portion of the past decade immersed in the DC film universe-even more if you count the development and production of Watchmen, his third film, a few years before that-Snyder has returned to the genre that launched his career as a feature film director.