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It’s a helluva three-word pitch: “Zombie heist movie.”
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“So you expect pure zombie mayhem, and you get that, 100 percent.
But also you get these really amazing characters on a fantastic journey.
A zombie heist movie but with heart!
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The U.S. government has managed to contain the outbreak by building a wall around an overrun Sin City.
Then Netflix stepped up to stake the project, as the streamer tends to do.
Go write that movie and let’s make it.'
I was like, ‘What, do you mean now?’
Netflix was so enthusiastic about the idea, the streameralso funded a four-hour animated prequel series.
We really do a super deep dive on where this like zombie plague came from.”
“I said I wasn’t interested,” Bautista recalls.
“I had this chip on my shoulder and was looking for juicy [dramatic roles].
Then I read the script and it was a lot deeper and had more layers than I thought.
And also, to be quite frank, I wanted to work with Zack.”
“We just felt like the right thing to do,” Snyder says.
In the end, it was a pretty easy choice."
“But I did start to think, ‘Wow, I’m starring in a movie!’
Because it seemed like I was the focal point of everything.”
There’s also a dash of political overtones metaphors about immigration, consumerism, and a jingoistic president.
“We’re running around killing zombies on craps tables,” Bautista says.
“It’s just a ton of fun.”
