Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead Gets an Early Summer Release Date on Netflix?

Netflix is looking to make a real impact this year, with the streaming giant aiming to release a new movie every single week throughout 2021. One such release is director Zack Snyder’s horror action flick,Army of the Dead, and while the movie has not yet been given an official release date, a newspaper clipping is currently doing the rounds on social media which seemingly reveals that the zombie outing will hit the streaming service in May.

While this has not yet been confirmed byNetflixthemselves, the newspaper clipping, which highlights Huma S. Qureshi’s role inArmy of the Dead, seems pretty confident that the movie will be released in May 2021. How they were able to come by this information is unknown, but making the movie available in late May, around the start of the summer season, would certainly make sense.

Army of the Deadfollows a group of mercenaries who carry out aheist on a Las Vegas casino during a zombie outbreak. “It is a full-blown, balls-to-the-wall zombie heist movie, so it’s genre-on-genre in a great way,” says Snyder of the upcoming Netflix project. “So you expect pure zombie mayhem, and you get that, 100 percent. But also you get these really amazing characters on a fantastic journey. It’s going to surprise people that there’s a lot of warmth and real emotion with these great characters.”

Directed byZack Snyderfrom a script he wrote with Shay Hatten and Joby Harold,Army of the Deadstars an ensemble cast led by Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy). Alongside the action star,Army of the Dead’scast includes the likes of Ella Purnell (Kick-Ass 2), Omari Hardwick (Kick-Ass), Theo Rossi (Luke Cage), Ana De La Reguera (Narcos), Huma Qureshi (Gangs of Wasseypur), Hiroyuki Sanada (Avengers: Endgame), Garret Dillahunt (Fear the Walking Dead), Raúl Castillo (Looking), Nora Arnezeder (Mozart in the Jungle), Matthias Schweighöfer (The Most Beautiful Day), Samantha Win (Wonder Woman) and Rich Cetrone (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice).

Netflix are putting a lot of confidence in Snyder andArmy of the Dead, which reportedly has a $90 million budget, with the service alsoplanning a prequel and a TV seriesbased on the property.

Zack Snyder’sArmy of the Deadis just a taste of what’s to come from Netflix this year. On the action front, we haveRed Noticestarring Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds, Jason Momoa’s revenge thrillerSweet Girl, and Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy’s sci-fi time travel adventureThe Adam Project.

Netflix also sees the return of Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars alongside Jennifer Lawrence inDon’t Look Up, about a pair of astronomers who try to warn everyone on Earth that a giant meteorite will destroy the planet in six months.

But that’s not all. Far from it in fact. We also have the final movies in theTo All the BoysandThe Kissing Boothtrilogies, the directorial debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda with the musicalTick, Tick…Boom!, Jake Gyllenhaal’s upcoming thrillerThe Guilty, Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer’s superhero comedyThunder Force, the John David Washington and Zendaya dramaMalcolm & Marie, and several innovative takes on the western genre withThe Harder They FallandConcrete Cowboy. And that’s just scratching the surface.

TheArmy of the Deadrelease date comes to us courtesy of a newspaper clipping that was shared byTwitter user Rex Overdrive.