Army of the Dead looks set to become one of Netflix's most watched movies of all time.
According to the streaming service, the gore-filled action horror is projected to be watched by 72 million households in its first four weeks.
If it winds up reaching that figure, it'll come in joint ninth – alongside George Clooney's The Midnight Sky – on the platform's list of top 10 most popular movies, falling behind the likes of 6 Underground, Murder Mystery, Bird Box and Spenser Confidential.
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Extraction currently holds the top spot, having pulled in 99 million within a movie of its online premiere. The Old Guard, Enola Holmes and Project Power round out the line-up.
Directed by Justice League's Zack Snyder, Army of the Dead centres on a group of mercenaries who break quarantine to venture into an infested Las Vegas and crack a casino safe containing $250 million, ultimately pulling off "the greatest heist ever attempted".
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But, as you might expect, the mission proves more difficult than the ragtag team bargained for and what started out as a challenging but doable task quickly becomes a race against to get out with the money and their lives.
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Guardians of the Galaxy's Dave Bautista, Power's Ana de la Reguera and Omari Hardwick, Theo Rossi (Sons of Anarchy), comedian Tig Notaro, Ella Purnell (Belgravia), Matthias Schweighöfer (You Are Wanted), Westworld's Hiroyuki Sanada and Garret Dillahunt (Fear the Walking Dead) star.
A prequel, which is reportedly titled Army of Thieves and will centre on Schweighöfer's safecracker Ludwig Dieter, has already been greenlit. Guz Khan, Stuart Martin, Jonathan Cohen, Ruby O Fee, Noemie Nakai, Peter Simonischek and Game of Thrones' Nathalie Emmanuel will also star.
Army of the Dead is available to stream on Netflix now.
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