Arnold Schwarzenegger didn’t build his body of work on the back of thoughtful, contemplative human dramas, he did it by flexing pecs the size of Vienna and blowing stuff up with rocket launchers. An old dog can learn new tricks, though, and his performance in kinda-zombie drama Maggie will surprise anyone who’d consigned him to the action ghetto. Click on the YouTube below to check out the film’s new trailer.
The work of first-timer Henry Hobson, Maggie is set in a world near-ravaged by the spread of the brain-craving living dead. The situation has largely been contained by the time we meet Wade (Schwarzenegger) and his wife Caroline (Joely Richardson), but tragically his only daughter Maggie (Abigail Breslin) is beginning to exhibit signs of the deadly virus. Under the draconian rules imposed by society, their choices are limited and stark.
Purists rejoice, there’s no fast-moving zombies in this one. Like Dawn Of The Dead, only for illness instead of consumerism, Maggie uses the zombie virus as a route into a different sort of survival story. It arrives in cinemas on July 24.