Army of Thieves Trailer Reveals New Heist In Zack Snyder’s Zombie Universe
Schweighöfer plays small-town bank teller Dieter, who 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. Watch the first trailer below.
The screenplay comes from Shay Hatten, who co-wrote “Army of
the Dead” with Joby Harold. The cast of “Army of Thieves” includes Nathalie
Emmanuel, Ruby O. Fee, Stuart Martin, Guz Khan, and Jonathan Cohen. Producers
are Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder, Wesley Coller, Dan Maag, and Schweighöfer,
from a story developed by Snyder and Hatten.
Deborah Snyder previously teased “Army of Thieves” in a conversation with IndieWire following the film’s release this May. She called it a “romantic comedy heist film,” adding, “It stands alone, and [while] you could watch it because it’s the history of our safecracker, it’s also just this really sweet, funny film,” she said. “It’s set in our same timeline, but it’s not like a zombie movie.
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Matthias Schweighöfer, Nathalie Emmanuel in Army of Thieves |
Of the film’s character (and the director playing him),
Snyder said, “Dieter is so beloved, when we tested the movie, he was one of
people’s favorite characters. To get more info of, where did he come from, how
did he learn to crack safes, I think that’s really fun, too. He’s a great
director. It’s a smaller-scale movie than ‘Army,’ but it looks really big.”
Schweighöfer previously made his directing debut in 2010
with the rom-com “What a Man.”
“Army of Thieves” was prepped and shot during the pandemic
and while a precise release date has yet to be set Netflix says it will be
releasing the film on the platform this fall.