For Zack Snyder, the zombie-film obsession began with 'Dawn Of The Dead'. As explained with ET, he was fascinated with the genre, enter his newest film, 'Army Of The Dead'. Snyder discussed the motivation in doing the film, "Zombie movies can combine many different genres and also social commentary and a lot of great stuff we get from the genre, but I was inspired by a lot of the movies like ‘Escape From New York’, ‘Aliens’, ‘The Thing’, as well as zombie movies themselves,” he explains. “I really got obsessed with the idea of tropes and accepted rules of the zombie world and started playing with them in my mind and was trying to create a scenario where you could play with the tropes of the cinematic universe and have a lot of fun. I started thinking about it after [“Dawn of the Dead”] and just put it on the back burner.”
Attaching Dave Bautista to the project was another big leap forward. The actor told ET, he saw it as a huge challenge, "I’ve been wanting to prove myself as an actor and I was avoiding action roles at the time. It was described to me as a zombie film…but when we had the conversation and I understood what it was, there were a lot of layers of entertainment going on — being a zombie movie, being a heist, being a conflict drama.”
Dave is excited and he added to the anticipation, releasing the trailer to his Instagram followers.
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Not only was the release date issued, but Dave also posted the trailer of the film, which looks pretty great! Fans were nothing but positive, in anticipation of the film which is set to be released on Netflix on May 21st.
Dave seems to be just as excited as the fans, "I’m so excited for people to see this,” Bautista says. “I’ve seen the film, I watched it twice this weekend. It’s well done. I think people are going to love this film. I loved everything about it. That’s what I was after as a performer. What a strong cast overall, everybody just pops.”
We can't wait to see the film and all the hype that will continue to surround it in the upcoming weeks.
Sources: ET & IG