A world-building spinoff already lost to the sands of time takes a top secret assignment on Netflix

Zack Snyder has been keeping himself plenty busy with Netflix’s two-part sci-fi extravaganza Rebel Moon, but that doesn’t mean the filmmaker’s fans aren’t growing equal parts suspicious and concerned over the lack of movement on the expanded Army of the Dead franchise, especially when Army of Thieves has largely been forgotten already.

Director and star Matthias Schweighöfer’s spinoff was an interesting way of expanding the mythology, delivering a light and breezy heist caper that filled in some gaps in Dieter’s backstory in an entirely different genre, all while only very loosely skirting around the impending zombie apocalypse that would serve as the backdrop to Snyder’s $100 million action epic.

Army of Thieves scored marginally better reviews than its predecessor, too, with a 68 percent Rotten Tomatoes score squeaking just ahead of Army of the Dead‘s 67 percent approval rating, but the trail has gone stone cold since then. Animated prequel series Lost Vegas exists somewhere in the ether of development, but the direct sequels have barely been mentioned in what feels like forever, while the initial talk that even more spinoffs set in different cinematic arenas were on the cards has been swept under the rug.

Even though Army of Thieves was only released in October 2021, it feels like nobody even talks about the film anymore, which makes its return to the Netflix rankings entirely welcome. Per FlixPatrol, the safe-cracking caper has surged back onto the worldwide watch-list, and the undead saga could be Snyder’s next port of call post-Rebel Moon, because the streaming service sure ain’t striking a deal with DC.