Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas is no longer happening at Netflix.
Spinning off from filmmaker Zack Snyder's zombie-heist-actioner Army of the Dead, this animated series should've followed the release of prequel Army of Thieves in 2021 but never did.
"We did all the scripts and the animatics, and all the voices are recorded," Snyder revealed to Total Film. "So, you could watch it, even in its crazy animatic form — you can watch the whole run."
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Not all is lost, though, as his next team-up with the streamer Rebel Moon (which is split into two movies titled A Child of Fire and The Scargiver) contains Lost Vegas connective tissue.
"At one point in the show, they go through a portal into another dimension, and there are characters in that other dimension that they come across," Snyder told the publication.
"In Rebel Moon, they're in this bar, and one of the aliens is one of the characters from the animatic. So it's definitely a shared universe."
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Two years ago, the Watchmen director teased how Lost Vegas would address the purpose of those zombie cyborgs running amok in Army of the Dead.
"I had the idea from the beginning that these zombies were going to embody an evolution, they were on their way to becoming something else, not stagnant like the zombies we're used to. It was a way to make them fresh, while still delivering the zombie canon in some ways," Snyder noted.
"I really wanted this sort of weird ambiguity to their origins – which, of course, we'll explore in the animated series, Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas."
Another unsolved mystery, then.
Army of the Dead and Army of Thieves are both streaming on Netflix.
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