Army of Thieves is the second film to release in Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead universe on Netflix, but unlike the first Army of the Dead, it's not directed by Zack Snyder. Instead, Matthias Schweighöfer took the helm for the prequel, in which he stars as the German safe-cracker, Dieter.
It's not the first time Snyder has produced a spin-off to one of his films and given the reins to another director. In 2014, Noam Murro directed the 300 prequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, and of course Patty
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