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- Zack Snyder's zombie-heist movie "Army of the Dead" releases this month on Netflix on May 21.
- The director revealed that there were scenes he cut from the movie that were "too much."
- This included a zombie male stripper with "a huge penis with a bite taken out of it."
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Zack Snyder revealed that there was a scene in his upcoming zombie action movie "Army of the Dead" that was cut because it pushed the boundaries too far, even for him.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, Snyder was asked if he had to remove any scenes from the upcoming Netflix movie, which is rated R, because they contained moments that might cross a line. The answer was: yes.
"We had a sequence where one of the male strippers had a huge penis with a bite taken out of it," Snyder explained. "We thought that was too much."
Snyder has previously said he got carte blanche with this movie, so it is unlikely we'll ever get a Snyder cut of this film featuring the zombie male strippers in all their glory.
While viewers won't get to see zombie strippers with chewed up penises, there should be plenty of other zombie action to entice audiences, including an undead tiger.
The zombified tiger, named Valentine, was actually based on one of Carole Baskin's tigers and the VFX team even spent a week at Baskin's sanctuary studying the creature. However, this all happened before "Tiger King" ever aired, as Deborah Snyder explained during a recent "Army of the Dead" Justice Con panel.
"I remember Marcus [Taormina], our visual effects supervisor, spent like a week down there. And we were like, 'Well, at least you got out alive!'" Snyder said.
"We didn't even know at the time, and I remember watching it. It wasn't until later and Marcus goes, 'You know where Valentine came from, right?'"
The trailer, released in April, featured Valentine heavily - so you can bet the big undead cat will be getting a lot of screentime come the full release of the movie in select theaters on May 14 and then on Netflix on May 21.
The movie follows a group of mercenaries heading into a zombie-filled Las Vegas in an effort to pull off one hell of a heist.
Starring Dave Bautista, this will be Snyder's return to the zombie genre, having made his directorial debut in 2004 with "Dawn of the Dead," the remake of the George A. Romero's 1978 movie. Snyder told The Times that his new zombie picture will again follow the sensibilities of Romero, the godfather of zombie movies.
"George Romero said it was all social commentary. And we felt obliged to do that with this movie. Editorialize a little bit and zombie movies are a great place to talk about us as a people," Snyder said. "Ours is a monster movie where the monster is us. It is a social movie more than a science movie - the science is pretty iffy!"