Dave Bautista keeps grabbing work, and his latest sees him teaming up with director Zack Snyder. Bautista will be one of the stars for Snyder's recently-revived action film Army Of The Dead.
The movie marks Snyder's return to filmmaking after he departed Justice League in the midst of family tragedy. One that has been squatting on his To Do list since at least the days of Watchmen. Based on an idea by Snyder, and featuring a script whipped up by Joby Harold (since re-written by the director and Shay Hatten), the film finds a young woman headed into a dangerous, quarantined Las Vegas, site of a zombie outbreak, intending to discover the source of the undead problem. When she becomes trapped in the zone, her father assembles a group of mercenaries to help rescue her, with the men tempted by the chance to rob the casinos while they're there. Deadline's story on Bautista's casting doesn't mention whether he'll be the father or one of the mercenaries.
Netflix has stumped up a $70 million budget for what Snyder is calling "the most kick-ass, self-aware — but not in a wink-to-the-camera way — balls-to-the-wall zombie freak-show that anyone has ever seen. No one’s ever let me completely loose like this."
Bautista will next be seen as Drax (a flashback, one assumes, since he's amongst the dusted) in Avengers: Endgame (25 April), and action-comedy Stuber, due on 12 July. He's also part of the cast for Denis Villeneuve's new Dune, which recently started the cameras rolling.
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