The Walking Deadhas continued to find immense success across multiple series, however, and other properties have helped keep the undead torch burning. Zombie content was once a titanic force in the TV and film industry, but it has subsided somewhat in recent years.

If the film does well, it could be the start of an expansive zombie franchise for Netflix.

There's also a live-action prequel movie, Army of Thieves, that features Matthias Schweighöfer reprising his character Ludwig Dieter from the first film. Zack Snyder has discussed the “Zombie Bible” created for the Army of the Dead franchise, which details the origins and mechanics of the different kinds of undead. Netflix has already ordered additional Army of the Dead content ahead of the film’s release, including an animated series focused on the early days of the zombie outbreak. Do they exist or not? As we make our way into the city we get to explore that world, and I think part of the fun is unlike a traditional shambler, which is a threat in its own right because there is an elevated Consciousness, there's some type of awareness we like to say that they are much like a wolf pack, so they're not talking, they're not communicating on that obvious of a level, but there's a much more elevated threat in that way. Wesley Coller: So these creatures that are mythological sort of lore, the fast ones that are unknown. At the time of the war there were only a few of them, obviously, and then once they contain it we realize that they're building an Army in there of these Alphas. It's been really fun because those that like traditional shamblers will get that, but we'll get these other alphas people think are a myth. But if they bite you, it gets weaker and weaker and we get shamblers. Read the full quotes from Snyder and Coller below.ĭeborah Snyder: I think the idea is like what else can we do? What else can make it fresh because there has been a lot of zombie content out there, so the idea that this, whether he's genetically engineered or he has part alien in him, but Zeus escapes from Area 51 and he's like our alpha, he's the king daddy, he starts the outbreak. “We have our traditional shamblers, for those who like shamblers, and then we have alphas.” Producer Wesley Coller added that the alphas are a key piece of the film’s “mythological” zombie lore.

“We have two kinds of zombies in the movie,” producer Deborah Snyder explained.

In an interview with Screen Rant, Army of the Dead’s producers discussed its zombie hierarchy and the dangerous alpha zombies leading the horde. Related: Army of the Dead Character Names And Roles Explained

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