BLEEDING LAS VEGAS
WHATEVER KIND OF 2021 you’re having so far, it’s safe to say that it’s nothing like Zack Snyder’s. First came the release of the “Snyder Cut”, his oft-assumed-mythical four-hour-plus rework of Justice League. And now he’s returning to the genre that made his name with Army Of The Dead – a gloriously gruesome and outrageously entertaining “zombie heist” flick dreamed up at the start of his career. After a well-documented tumultuous and tragic period in his personal and professional lives, it’s safe to say that the director is back – and then some.
“It’s cool, it’s fun,” Snyder laughs when SFX puts it to him that he is dominating pop culture in the first half of 2021. “The pandemic kind of makes it all seem, y’know, a little more abstract. I have an editing suite near my office, at the house, so everything’s kind of the same to me – we’re just working, and the movies are coming out. It’s cool. And, you know, I really enjoyed making this, as well as finishing up Justice League. It’s been a real pleasure.”
STORY OF THE DEAD
Anyone who’s seen the explosive trailer will know the plot of the film by now, but just in case you need a refresher, follows a ragtag group of soldiers as they’re tasked with entering the ruins of Las Vegas, a city
