Army of the Dead

Army of the Dead

Credits
Title:	Army of the Dead
Directed by:	Zack Snyder
Written by:	Zack Snyder; Joby Harold; Shay Hatten
Produced by:	Bergen Swanson; Zack Snyder; Deborah Snyder; Wesley Coller
Music by:	Tom Holkenborg
Cinematography:	Zack Snyder
Edited by:	Dody Dorn
Production
Production:	Cruel & Unusual Films
Distributors:	Netflix
Released:	May 14th, 2021
Rating:	R
Running time:	148 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
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Army of the Dead is an American independent feature film of the action and zombie apocalypse subgenres of horror. It was directed by Zack Snyder with a screenplay written by Snyder, Joby Harold, and Shay Hatten. It was produced by Cruel & Unusual Films and opened to limited theatrical release in the United States on May 14th, 2021. It made its worldwide premiere on Netflix on May 21st, 2021. The movie stars Dave Bautista as Scott Ward - a former mercenary, who is hired to lead a raid into zombie-occupied Las Vegas to recover $200 million dollars from a casino vault. Scott's daughter Kate, played by Ella Purnell, manipulates her way into the operation so she can conduct a rescue mission for refugees trapped within the occupation zone.

Cast[]

Actor

Role

Dave Bautista

Scott Ward

Ella Purnell

Kate Ward

Omari Hardwick

Vanderohe

Ana de la Reguera

Maria Cruz

Theo Rossi

Burt Cummings

Matthias Schweighöfer

Ludwig Dieter

Nora Arnezeder

Lilly, the Coyote

Hiroyuki Sanada

Bly Tanaka

Garret Dillahunt

Martin

Tig Notaro

Marianne Peters

Raúl Castillo

Mikey Guzman

Huma Qureshi

Geeta

Samantha Win

Chambers

Richard Cetrone

Zeus

Michael Cassidy

Sergeant Kelly

Steve Corona

Groom, Mister Hillman

Chelsea Edmundson

Bride, Misty Hillman

Zach Rose

Corporate Bissel

Brian Avery

Humvee driver

David K. Maiocco

Liberace partygoer

Ryan Watson

High roller

Sabine Varnes

Zombie showgirl

Monica Lopez

Zombie showgirl

Kelly Phelan

Zombie showgirl

Jim Halty

Slot machine man

Leon Budrow

Zombie male stripper

Maeve Garay

Little girl

Danielle Burgio

Soccer mom

Jessica Harbeck

Zombie Elvis

Joshua Horton

Man in car

Natalie Marie Jaramillo

Woman in car

Frank Andrade

Tattoo artist

Ava Wagenman

Soccer mom's daughter

Wayne Dalglish

Dagliesh

Casey Messer

News anchor #1

Ken Thong

Kevin, Scott's boss

Donna Brazile

Female pundit

Sean Spicer

Male pundit

Sheila Awasthi

Angela

Colby Lemmo

Laura Ward

Marisilda Garcia

Anita

Isachar Benetiz

Cruz's shop mechanic

Carolyn Wickwire

Elderly woman

Antonio Leyba

Carlos

Colin Jones

Damon

Daisy Davis

Refugee #1

Lora Martinez-Cunningham

Refugee woman #2

Sarah Minnich

Jessica, air hostess

Bernhard Eichholz

Puppeteer

Ozzy Alvarez

Puppeteer

Kevin Kirkpatrick

Puppeteer

Eric Fiedler

Puppeteer

Fred Tatasciore

Zombie vocals

Amanda Troop

Zombie vocals

Gary Hecker

Zombie vocals

Jon Olson

Zombie vocals

Notes & Trivia[]

The tagline for this film is "Survivors Take All!". Another tagline is "Always Bet on the Dead".
Principal filming on Army of the Dead began on July 15th, 2019. The casino scenes were filmed in September. Principal photography concluded on October 19th, 2019.
The movie was filmed in different locations including Los Angeles, California, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Las Vegas, Nevada. Some of the casino shots were filmed at the Atlantic Club Casino and the Showboat Atlantic City casino & hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The first teaser trailer for Army of the Dead dropped on February 25th, 2021. The full official trailer was released on April 13th, 2021. On May 13th, 2021, the first fifteen minutes of the film were leaked online.
There are a total of sixty-two credited cast members in this film. Four members of the cast were puppeteers and four members of the cast provided vocalizations for the zombies.
A prequel film, Army of Thieves, was released in 2021. It was directed by Matthias Schweighöfer, who also played Ludwig Dieter in Army of the Dead, who reprises the role for Army of Thieves. This is an action heist movie and not a horror movie.
Army of the Dead is succeeded by an animated miniseries called Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas, as well as a live-action feature length sequel Planet of the Dead.
On the movie review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, Army of the Dead has a 67% Fresh Tomatometer rating based on 284 approved critic reviews. It has an audience score of 75% based on more than 250 verified ratings.
On Metacritic, Army of the Dead holds a weighted average Metascore of 57 out of 100, based on forty-three critic reviews, indicating mixed or average reviews. It has a user score of 5.8 based on 732 ratings.
On Letterboxd, Army of the Dead has a weighted average score of 2.59 out of 5.0 based on 162,750 ratings.
Actor and stunt performer James M. Halty, who plays a slot machine man, is credited as Jim Halty in this film.
Actor Josh Horton, who plays a man in a car, is credited as Joshua Horton in this film.
Actress Natalie Jaramillo, who plays a woman in a car, is credited as Natalie Marie Jaramillo in this film.
Voice actor Gary A. Hecker, who is one of the zombie vocalists, is credited as Gary Hecker in this film.
Actor Dave Bautista is best known for his work as a professional wrestler for World Wrestling Entertianment (WWE). He has worked on both of the major WWE brands, WWE Monday Night Raw and WWE Friday Night Smackdown. He is also known for playing alien ass-kicker Drax in James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy film series for Marvel Studios.
This is the first Zack Snyder film to use digital cameras.
This is Zack Snyder's second film to center around zombies. Snyder also directed the 2004 remake of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead.
James Gunn, best known for directing Slither and the afore-mentioned Guardians of the Galaxy was offered to direct the film, but turned it down.
Dave Bautista turned down appearing in James Gunn's The Suicide Squad to work on Army of the Dead.
Army of the Dead won the "Oscars Fan Favorite" contest at the 94th Annual Academy Awards.
Producer Deborah Snyder is the wife of director, screenwriter and cinematographer Zack Snyder.
Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer makes a cameo appearance in the film as a male pundit.
This film premiered on Netflix on the same day that Spiral: From the Book of Saw was released in the United States.

Recommendations[]

Zombie films

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