Army of the Dead 2 is happening, here's everything we know

Army of the Dead 2 is happening, here'southward everything nosotros know

(Image credit: Netflix)

Zack Snyder'southward Army of the Dead 2 is on! And it fifty-fifty has a new championship! A spiritual successor to Snyder's 2004 Dawn of the Expressionless, Army of the Dead follows a group of mercenaries who've taken a job to recover millions of dollars from a Vegas casino.

The only obstruction in their path is that the city has been quarantined, is full of zombies, and is scheduled to get nuked out of existence.

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Ground forces of the Dead has 68% on Rotten Tomatoes, simply fares improve with an audience score of 75%. When information technology comes to Netflix giving the okay for follow-ups, the audience reception is everything —just await at Jupiter'southward Legacy, which has been cancelled instead of getting a second season.

Snyder's Zombie heist is on runway to become one of Netflix's top 10 biggest films according to the streaming service (via Deadline) and is on form to exist watched past 72M households in its beginning four weeks out in the wild.

Ground forces of the Dead two was confirmed in a The Hollywood Reporter story, and then here's everything nosotros know so far about a possible Regular army of the Expressionless ii. Beware of spoilers for Ground forces of the Dead!

Bautista firing a gun in Army of the Dead — (Image credit: Netflix)

Army of the Expressionless ii release date speculation

Ground forces of the Dead dropped on Netflix on May 21, later on its cinematic debut on May 14. Production was inappreciably snappy on the first one, and most have optics on a 2024 release date.

In the meantime, Army of the Dead is getting a prequel on Netflix called Army of Thieves. The synopsis is already up on the website and reads: "In this prequel to 'Regular army of the Dead,' a mysterious adult female recruits bank teller Dieter to assist in a heist of incommunicable-to-crevice safes across Europe."

Almost all of the cast was killed off at the cease of the first picture show, including Matthias Schweighöfer's Ludwig Dieter. The prequel focuses on the early days of the zombie outbreak, and too stars Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones), Ruby O. Fee (Asphalt Called-for), Stuart Martin (Jamestown), Guz Khan (Four Weddings and a Funeral), Jonathan Cohen (Budapest), and Noémie Nakai (Death Note: New Generation).

Another prequel, Ground forces of the Dead: Lost Vegas, is an animated series that sees the actors from the picture reprise their roles. Fans can expect to learn more nearly Dave Bautista's Scott Ward, and the starting time of the outbreak. We're expecting six episodes total with Snyder directing two of them.

a crop of the Army of the Dead poster — (Epitome credit: Netflix)

Regular army of the Expressionless ii title

Army of the Dead ii will be called Planet of the Dead, as confirmed in an interview with Snyder.

Ground forces of the Dead 2 cast and plot

If you've watched Army of the Dead already, and heeded our spoiler warning, you'll know that everyone on the heist crew is dead — with the exception of Omari Hardwick's Vanderohe, and Ella Purnell'due south Kate Ward.

The last time we saw Vanderohe, he'd made it out of Vegas with a ton of coin and was on a flying to New United mexican states. The wrinkle in that programme? It turns out he was bitten, and that's the basis for the sequel'southward plot according to Snyder.

Talking to Polygon about Army of the Dead ii, Snyder says "I'd make it in a 2nd. What we take planned is as well crazy. Once we knew Vanderohe was fleck, and he'southward going to Mexico Urban center, I was like, 'You know what'due south gonna happen?' Then I just went on a tear. And by the time it concluded, [co-writer Shay Hatten] was like, 'OK.'"

Snyder besides points out a few Easter eggs, including the robot zombies, and the address on the shipping container that blastoff zombie Zeus escapes from at the starting time of picture. Zeus was being shipped off to Islamic republic of iran, with Snyder asking, "Like, is he some sort of covert bioweapon?" That'southward simply a question you can respond Zack.

When asked about the fourth dimension loop theory, Snyder responded "I don't know, what is the deal?" referencing the bodies by the vault that wait like the coiffure, and which spark the in-movie speculation. "Is Tanaka [the bankroller of the heist performance] Devil or God, and we're just pawns in some perverse play?"

In that location are quite a few different threads to follow should we get an Army of the Dead sequel, and it sounds similar Snyder has well-nigh of information technology mapped out. So all we need is for Netflix to give the go ahead.

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