so
zack snyder's army of the dead has
released on netflix
and after posting my review and
explained video on the film
there are many details that myself and
others have noticed on rewatch
from the robot zombies to the alien
origins and much
more zack snyder's latest film contains
hidden details that set up the potential
sequels
that the director has already planned in
this video i'm going to be breaking down
all of these easter eggs in zack
snyder's army of the dead
and discussing how it could link into a
sequel
down the line this analysis will contain
spoilers
so if you do happen to be someone who
hasn't seen the film yet
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the robot zombies
the alien easter eggs and more in zack
snyder's army of the dead
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so on the surface army of the dead is a
pretty straightforward zombie movie
but with close attention to detail and
viewers will see that it does introduce
a big robot zombie mystery
that will apparently be answered in a
future sequel
while army of the dead's heist inside of
a zombie quarantined zone
plot is actually pretty simple to follow
there are quite a few things that snyder
does with the undead
that have never really been done before
some things are more apparent than
others such as the more intelligent
alpha zombies that can reproduce
which means they no longer have to bite
human victims
to grow their numbers they can simply
make more zombies the old-fashioned way
to build out their kingdom and the fact
that
alphas also ride horses put on helmet
armor
carry weapons and even communicate with
each other
means you've got a pretty unique vision
of what a zombie movie can be in today's
world
regardless of whether you like the
project or not
alphas aren't the only zombies
introduced in army of the dead however
as there's a far more mysterious undead
creature
roaming the las vegas casinos of zack
snyder's new zombie world
this includes there being a robot zombie
that appears in one shot of the movie
and which has become the subject of
heavy speculation
among the directors fans first of all is
there really a robot zombie in the movie
according to snyder there is and the
director
even asked a polygon journalist during
an
interview if they caught the robot
zombie in the movie
you have to look very closely within the
blink of an eye
to catch the robot cameo as it takes
place
during the final quick pace action cuts
of the film
scott ward played by dave bautista and
what remains of his squad of thieves
fight their way out of the casino
at the end of the movie and when a
zombie is shot in the face
it reveals a metallic skull and blue
eyes
features that are often more closely
tied to androids
or cyborgs in genre fiction the body
also seems to short-circuit as it falls
to the floor
with a blue flash that also resembles
the bluish insides that gush out of the
alphas
when they're killed so what exactly is
going
on here the movie doesn't reveal the
origin of the robot zombie
or if there are others like it but
snyder did suggest
some possibilities in a recent q a on
comic book
saying if you pay close attention
there's a number of zombies that are
clearly not zombies
you see normal zombies and then you see
some robot zombies
are they monitors that the government
has placed among the zombies to monitor
them
are they technology from the other world
what's happening there
we know that the american government of
army of the dead has secret plans for
the alphas trapped inside las vegas
while the president wants to make a
spectacle out of nuking the city on the
4th of july
the secretary of defense is secretly
plotting with hiroyuki sonada's bligh
tanaka
to extract an alpha specimen from the
quarantine zone
which the military will use to create a
literal army of the dead
the ultimate weapon of mass destruction
the robot zombies might have been the
government's way to learn more about the
undead and their behavior
and how best to weaponize them against
enemy nations
but in his answer zack snyder also
teased the other world which could tie
back to the movie's opening scene at the
start of the film the two soldiers
unknowingly transporting zeus
the original alpha zombie discuss the
shipping containers origin
one soldier suggests to the other that
it's from area 51
and that it might have something to do
with aliens
we do see a cool easter egg to ufos
flying off in the sky at the beginning
of the film
but then as we progress later on this
could be
why the blood of the alphas that are
killed is blue
and why the killed baby in the body of
the zombie queen
also glows blue for a brief second while
it's never
addressed again in the movie and only
implied visually
the opening conversation suggests that
zeus
might not be from earth at all and that
his bite
infects his victims with some sort of
alien virus
that turns them into the smarter alphas
yet snyder also hints at an earthly
explanation to polygon
saying like is he some sort of covert
bio weapon
the same could go for the robot zombie
as it could be man-made or something
from another world
either way the robot is further proof
that not
is what it seems in the movie and maybe
van der rohe is right when he suggested
that someone
is messing with the fabric of time this
time loop theory begins to
loosely impose itself when the crew
reached the sealed vault
and spot several skeletons slumped in
the corner of the room
in that moment it is believed that the
skeletons belonged to a previous crew
who had attempted to retrieve the cash
but failed however the skeletons are
wearing the same items of clothing that
the gang presently have
on from scott's red bandana to maria's
key
necklace maria's necklace is
particularly an
interesting study however because of the
skeleton version of her
only bears one with three keyholes while
there are four
in that of the maria we know could this
mean that before
now the dead skeleton crew were on their
third attempt at breaking into the vault
and now scott and his crew have made it
further than before
it could be us in another timeline and
we are caught in some
infinite loop fighting and dying says
van der rohe to ludwig
referring to bligh tanaka as a puppet
master or god
and that they are simply pawns in some
perverse game
where they are destined to repeat their
failures
finally in some mind-bending ironic
reveal
it all begins he concludes this
implicates tanaka as knowing more than
what he's already told them
van der rohe himself is a bit of a
mystery too
already knowing about the alphas within
the zombie order
before lily mentions them as they
proceed towards the land of the undead
it's almost like he has memories from a
previous loop
with the way time loops operate in
movies or tv shows
there's usually a reset event something
that reels a narrative sequence back
towards the beginning
and in army of the dead the nuclear bomb
dropped on las vegas
along with its zombies could be the
event that restarts the sequence
but in this particular loop we know that
ludwig shoves van der rohe inside the
vault to save him
as zombie king zeus attacks them a vault
that ludwig previously said
led to another realm so it could not
only
be a time loop but also a multiverse as
van der rohe
wasn't meant to survive interestingly
ludwig
the safecracker who isn't much of a
fighter like the others
had been shown earlier in the movie
having shooting practice with van der
rohe
before the mission the targets are empty
bottles and while it would have been
reasonable for him to misfire
ludwig shoots each bottle with a single
shot
what is also interesting about the
movie's time loop theory
is that it appears that all the
characters have their timelines
happening at the same time merging in
some way
in fact snyder has come out to give the
theory a bit of credibility as he told
the youtuber the film junkie there's a
chance and i'm not saying that this is a
hundred percent true
and in some ways it's not but the group
at the table
i mean it's pretty subtle but that's
them also
at the table they get further every time
possibly
is this the time they made it all the
way to the money
but the time loop theory if true also
establishes this world as a potential
multiverse
that could see it spin off in numerous
directions the only drawback
is that time loops can be complicated
but maybe snyder might make it
interesting in this
instance when i watched the movie i saw
it more as a cool message to the
continuing failure of humanity
in a dire situation but again we might
see this
developed more in sequels as an actual
plot device
ultimately snyder is saving the answers
for the larger cinematic universe he's
creating for netflix
an anime prequel series called army of
the dead las vegas
will focus on the start of the outbreak
an event that is only briefly
covered in the opening credits in an
interview with indiewire
producer deborah snyder teased that the
movie could explore the alien plotline
further
with them coming from area 51 so maybe
there's a sci-fi element to
it meanwhile army of thieves a prequel
directed by
and starring mathieu schweinhofer
follows german safecracker ludwig
and what he was up to before joining
scott's team
deborah snyder described thieves as a
romantic comedy heist film
that's not like a zombie movie it's more
like the italian job but it takes place
in a world where these zombies exist in
america
and it's causing instability in the
banking institutions
the movie is due out later this year but
what about army of the dead
too zack snyder told polygon that he'd
make it
in a second and that the idea he has
planned is
crazy he said once we knew van der rohe
was bit
and he's going to mexico city i was like
you know what's going to happen
and then i just went on a tear and by
the time it ended
shea the co-writer was intrigued if a
sequel does happen in the near future
then we'll have to see how all of these
easter eggs link in
and how snyder continues to shape the
world he has already established
i'm looking forward to hearing what else
you picked out from the film
so don't forget to let me know down
below in the comment section
alongside what you think it could mean
for army of the dead too
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