Why There Are So Few Zombies In The Army Of Thieves Trailer

Why There Are So Few Zombies In The Army Of Thieves Trailer

The trailer for Netflix’s Army of Thieves shows very few zombies, and this is explained by the film’s prequel relationship to Army of the Dead.

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Why There Are So Few Zombies In The Army Of Thieves Trailer

The new trailer for Netflix’s Army of Thieves has almost no zombies, but this is due to the movie being prequel to Army of the Dead and the specific circumstances of the zombie outbreak. The second installment of Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead zombie universe for the streamer, Army of Thieves focuses on Matthias Schweighöfer’s safecracker Dieter Ludwig joining a planned heist organized by Nathalie Emmanuel’s Gwendoline. Schweighöfer also directed the film, with the first full trailer dropping during Netflix’s TUDUM event for the streaming platform’s many upcoming movies and TV series.

Army of the Dead got the franchise rolling back in May of this year. It followed a team of mercenaries hired to carry out a heist in Las Vegas after the city had been sealed off in the aftermath of being overrun by zombies. The movie introduced a new, more intelligent zombie breed known as Alphas, and with Army of the Dead 2 greenlit and the animated prequel series Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas on the way to shed more light on Army of the Dead’s zombie origins, the dearth of the undead on the Army of Thieves trailer might seem a little odd at face value. However, it all has to do with Army of Thieves’ place in the universe’s timeline and the more contained zombie horde of its predecessor.

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Army of the Dead’s opening prologue showed the chaos of zombies overrunning Las Vegas. The movie’s main story took place six years later, with its intro sequence seeming to unfold during the same approximate timeframe of Army of Thieves, as indicated by flashes of news coverage of the outbreak and Gwendoline explaining to Dieter that “the world’s distracted” in planning their heist. Apart from that, the rise of the zombies in Army of the Dead, even with an alien connection, wasn’t as apocalyptic as is usually the case for most zombie movies.

Despite the efforts of the U.S. military and the Las Vengeance mercenaries, the zombies in Army of the Dead’s opening were able to multiply too fast for the plague to be stopped. This forced the U.S. government to seal the city off to keep the zombies from spreading out into the world. With Army of the Dead’s zombie apocalypse effectively localized to Las Vegas, this explains the zombies being mostly absent from the Army of Thieves trailer, not to mention the fact that it still wasn’t necessarily at the height of the zombie outbreak yet.

To be sure, Army of the Dead showed the Alpha zombies are intelligent enough to have figured out how to scale the massive ring of stacked shipping containers around Las Vegas, but simply elected to claim the city as their territory. At the same time, Army of Thieves taking place in locations thousands of miles away from Las Vegas makes both the shamblers and the Alphas not a concern for Dieter and Gwendoline’s heist. As Gwendoline herself points out, the amount of attention that the entire world is paying to the outbreak in Las Vegas will likely make it easier for the team to disappear after pulling off the heist. Zombies are an integral element of the Army of the Dead franchise, but Army of Thieves is devoting itself to the heist side of the first movie’s equation. Thanks to its prequel status and the Alpha army growing without spreading beyond Las Vegas, it can do just that with no difficulty.

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