‘Army of Thieves’ – Safe Cracking Dieter from ‘Army of the Dead’ Gets a New Crew
Want more of the anxious safecracker from Army of the Dead? You’re in luck!
Netflix is expanding Zack Snyder’s zombie universe into a full cinematic universe. Army of Thieves is the first of those projects and will be followed by Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas, an anime series that happens years before Army of the Dead (would be cool to see what happened in Vegas between the initial infection and when the heist crew arrives).
The new movie is focused on one of Army of the Dead‘s better characters – Ludwig Dieter. The safecracker is hired by a mysterious woman to pull off a top-secret heist with a bunch of misfit thieves. It takes place at the very start of the zombie apocalypse. The story is from Zack Snyder with a script from Shay Hatten (John Wick Chapter 3).
Dieter was my favorite character out of Army of the Dead and I was sad to see his story end the way it did plus I’m a heist movie dork, so I’m willing to give this a shot whenever it shows up later this month. It looks like a blast.
It stars Matthias Schweighöfer as Ludwig Dieter (he’s also directing), along with Nathalie Emmanuel, Ruby O. Fee, Stuart Martin, Guz Khan, Jonathan Cohen, and Noémie Nakai.
In this prequel to Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, small-town bank teller Dieter 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.
Army of Thieves arrives on Netflix on October 29th.
