In the land of prequels, Dieter and his wavy blond locks live on! And if his star turn in Netflix’s new film, Army of Thieves, proves to be popular, we may see him yet again, says Schweighöfer, who also directed the movie.
As it stands now, Dieter is trapped within the scientific concept of Schrödinger’s Cat: Until we look into the box to see if he is alive or deceased, he exists in both states at once.
The only reason Netflix has a spin-off film in which Dieter and his team go on a safecracking spree across Europe is because Schweighöfer was so damned charming in the original role.
That’s how he caught the attention of Snyder and his producer/wife Deborah Snyder, who chose him for Dead as the least strong, but arguably most critical member of the team Dave Bautista leads into a zombie-overrun Las Vegas to extract a billionaire’s fortune from the ruins of a casino.
Dieter steals all his scenes too, in part because he’s one of the few who isn’t bottled up and fearful the whole time.
He lights up when they present him with the blueprints for the famous safe they hope to open, known as “The Götterdämmerung” after the fourth and last opera in composer Richard Wagner’s epic Ring cycle of musical dramas.
I told the whole story about Richard Wagner and the operas, and tiny stuff in between, like, I looked at Dave and was asking, ‘Are you an opera fan?’ And he just stared at me.
This movie would be a pure comedy-adventure, with the team galavanting across the picture-postcard luxury locales of Europe as they orchestrate schemes to infiltrate their hardened targets and get Dieter/Sebastian up close and personal with the fabled vaults.
Here’s where Schweighöfer paid tribute to Snyder for opening the door to him with his first English-language film.
“I knew that of all the people in the world, there was only one I wanted to be with.
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