Zack Snyder has revealed that his Army of the Dead sequel is officially titled Planet of the Dead — and that one character may make an unexpected return in the film.
Army of the Dead ended with very few main characters having survived the Las Vegas mission, however, Snyder recently spoke to Inverse about the sequel, now titled Planet of the Dead, and hinted that one character might have some life left in him yet as he teased the potential return of Matthias Schweighöfer's Ludwig Dieter.
"The real adventure would be to see what happened to [Dieter] when that safe door closed. Did he get killed by Zeus or not? What happened?" Snyder quizzed. "We don't see him die on camera, and there's still some time left. I won't tell you what happens in Army of the Dead 2 — aka Planet of the Dead — but let's just say that there's a chance Dieter survives. And there's a chance that brush with death would have caused him to want to find a jailed Gwendoline."
Before the sequel arrives, Schweighöfer's character is set to appear in Netflix's Army of Thieves, a prequel that will see him joining a misfit crew of aspiring thieves as they attempt to crack three legendary safes across Europe. The movie will no doubt give audiences plenty to chew on and spit out in terms of theories, similar to Army of the Dead's time loop debate.
"I'm a huge fan of this mythological understory," Snyder recently told GamesRadar, touching on whether the time loop may come up again in the sequel. "All your time loop fun that you can have, there's a lot of cool enhancements that are baked in now. I can't wait to make the sequel to Army of the Dead, so that we can see how then all of those things manifest."
Army of Thieves will breakout onto Netflix this October 29. The movie may not have any zombies in sight but there will be plenty of stealing. Check out this exclusive heist scene from the zombie-less prequel before reading our review of the movie, which we called a treat for anyone looking for "a piece of disposable entertainment" in the multi-pronged franchise.