Army of Thieves features a huge Dawn of the Dead Easter egg

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While Zack Snyder's USA of the Dead Crataegus laevigata non be a law of continuation of Come home of the Dead, the director's remake of George A. Romero's classic, that hasn't stopped the new prequel, Army of Thieves, paying homage to Snyder's previous encounter with the undead.

Matthias Schweighöfer directs Army of Thieves, which tells the story of the safecracker Dieter (also played by Schweighöfer) before helium heads to zombie-overrun Las Vegas. As revealed in the new Netflix movie, Dieter has been having visions of zombies – and one of those dream sequences recreates a moment from Snyder's version of Dawn of the Dead.

In Army of Thieves, Dieter sees a zombified Pres Young girl astounding weak a hallway towards him, much equivalent how a pair off's young daughter attacks them in their bedroom in the 2004 refashion of Dawn of the Dead.

"We dependable to find even the same dress that the girl was wearing in Dawn of the Dead," Schweighöfer told Vanity Fair while discussing the scene. "We couldn't find it, but information technology's quite similar dig." See images of both scenes below.

Ground forces of Thieves does non feature many zombies, instead playing mainly as a straightforward heist picture, so Schweighöfer managing to reference Dayspring of the Dead is an impressive feat.

If you accept seen the latest installment in the Army of the Dead enfranchisement and have questions, then we're here to avail – check out our rundown of the Army of Thieves end you said it the movie ties into the already-infamous time-loop theory. And if you've already watched the pic, and so seize a fewer more watch recommendations with our list of the best Netflix movies streaming right at once.

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