Zack Snyder says his sequel to Army of the Dead 2 is "insane".

Zack Snyder made his feature film debut with Zombie Redux in 2004, Dawn of the Dead. Eighteen years later, with an entire DC comic verse behind him, the director returns to the genre with his own creation: the undead, action-packed heist thriller Army of the Dead. The one-last-mission saga that follows a group of ex-zombie fighters battling through undead infested Las Vegas to crack a safe with millions in cash is a loud, cinematic excess. It’s pure Snyder.

True to shape, it’s just the beginning. As with his Justice League films, Snyder began the journey from Army of the Dead with a view of a larger world and timeline. Part of this story is told in Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas, an animated prequel coming to Netflix in the not too distant future. Based on the movie’s final scenes (which Snyder slips right into the main flow of the picture, rather than shy away from the term with an after-credits scene), the film is poised to produce a straight-forward sequel if the numbers make sense. While most filmmakers would be happy with two zombie films in their oeuvre, Snyder tells Polygon he knows exactly what he wants from one Army of the Dead 2

and hopes he can return to bring this story to life.

“Shay [Hatten, co-writer] and I know exactly what happens next, “he says,” and it is insane. ”

[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for the ending of Army of the Dead.]

Until the end of Army of the DeadMost of the crew, including Dave Bautista’s ringleader Scott Ward, are dead. But thanks to a timely break into a casino safe, Scott’s old friend Vanderohe (Omari Hardwick) survived the nuclear explosion. But a moment when the refrigerator is destroyed cannot save it from the bite of a zombie. As he travels south of the border in a fancy private jet, it’s clear that Vanderohe won’t make it and the world’s brain eater problem isn’t over. Snyder “would absolutely” the “what if?” Moment to life in a sequel.

“I would do it in a second. What we planned is too crazy. When we knew Vanderohe had been bitten and he was going to Mexico City, I said, “Do you know what’s going to happen?” And then I just got a tear. And when it ended, Shay said, “OK.”

Dave Bautista and Zack Snyder stand in a mortuary field on the Army of the Dead set

With a trigger-happy president ready to solve his nuclear weapons problems – and even an appearance by Sean Spicer, Trump’s former White House press secretary – Army of the Dead

has some of the dull social comments of a classic zombie movie. A sequel that brings the action to Mexico could be just as poignant. But during his Netflix romp, Snyder, who loves an Easter egg, planted traces of world education that could pay off in wilder ways.

“How about the robot zombie? Did you catch them? “he says with a sinister chuckle. In fact, I didn’t catch the robot zombies.

Snyder quickly points out that Zeus, the alpha zombie whose death blow started the Sin City-wide apocalypse, escapes from a container in the opening sequence that (if you pause and blink at the right moment) is tagged with a delivery address Iran. “What, is it some kind of covert bio-weapon?” The director asks me, a person who didn’t make the film.

In the middle of the film, when the crew finally arrives at their destination casino, Vanderohe and some of the crews discover a number of rotting bodies in the vault. The bodies all appear to be dressed exactly like Vanderohe’s group, down to a specific necklace. Despite her tight timeline, Vanderohe pauses to drop a theory: Maybe it’s the corpses you

from an alternate timeline. The red herring moment never comes back, but it’s impossible to shake. What was the matter with it?

“I don’t know what’s the deal?” Says Snyder with an even more eerie chuckle. “Is Tanaka [the bankroller of the heist operation] Devil or God, and we’re just pawns in a perverse game? “

There might be answers in one Army of the Dead 2when Netflix gives the go-ahead for the movie and Snyder isn’t busy elsewhere. The director says his longstanding drama Horse widths (formerly known as The last photo) is still up to date, even though COVID has suspended its ambitious plans to shoot around the world in places like Bolivia and Iceland. Meanwhile, Snyder says he finally wrapped up a script he’d been working on for five years and “tried to get Netflix to agree”.

Is it sci-fi? Horror? More grounded drama? “It’s a big, huge, crazy movie,” he says. So one thing is clear: whether he will make the mystery project for his next film or continue Army of the Dead 2Viewers should expect pure Snyder from the deal.