Netflix Unleash 3-D Zombie Tiger In Central London!

This Friday Netflix will be hoping this is one ‘Zombie invasion’ in the UK you’ll want to see when  Zack Snyder’s forthcoming blockbuster Army Of The Dead arrives on the Channel.

For the first time in the world famous Piccadilly Lights’ history,  A 3-D Zombie Tiger called ‘Valentine’  may take people by surprise when it emerges from a giant billboard in London’s Piccadilly Circus.

Using the entirety of the ginormous curved digital screen in  introduces Londoners to  the terrifying zombie tiger which appears in the film. A VFX Tiger  created by acclaimed visual effects supervisor Marcus Taormina (Guardians Of The Galaxy) roaming around post-apocalyptic Las Vegas.

The activation will be on-rotation at half past the hour, every hour from today until midnight on May 23.

“My crack visual effects team went down to Carol Baskin’s place and used her tigers to get the movements” says director Zack Snyder about Valentine’s creation.

 After initially struggling to find a real-life tiger to base Valentine on, Marcus Taormina and his team stumbled across Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue, pre-Tiger King, who “were happy to hear that we were using visual effects to create the big cat, versus using a practical tiger because of the inhumane ways that they had been treated over the years.”

 “We flew to Tampa, Florida, and were introduced to Carole Baskin” continues Taormina. “Later on, I guess it was probably four or five months in, my wife was watching something and from the other room, I heard this familiar voice. And there’s Carole on the TV.”

Here’s some images from the Piccadilly Circus

From filmmaker Zack Snyder (300, Zack Snyder’s Justice League), ARMY OF THE DEAD takes place following a zombie outbreak that has left Las Vegas in ruins and walled off from the rest of the world. When Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), a displaced Vegas local, former zombie war hero who’s now flipping burgers on the outskirts of the town he now calls home, is approached by casino boss Bly Tanaka (Hiroyuki Sanada), it’s with the ultimate proposition: Break into the zombie-infested quarantine zone to retrieve $200 million sitting in a vault beneath the strip before the city is nuked by the government in 32 hours. Driven by the hope that the payoff could help pave the way to a reconciliation with his estranged daughter Kate (Ella Purnell), Ward takes on the challenge, assembling a ragtag team of experts for the heist. They include Maria Cruz (Ana de la Reguera), an ace mechanic and Ward’s old friend; Vanderohe (Omari Hardwick), a zombie killing machine; Marianne Peters (Tig Notaro), a cynical helicopter pilot; Mikey Guzman (Raúl Castillo), a go-for-broke influencer and Chambers (Samantha Win), his ride-or-die; Martin (Garret Dillahunt), the casino’s head of security; a badass warrior known as the Coyote (Nora Arnezeder) who recruits Burt Cummings (Theo Rossi), a slimy security guard; and a brilliant German safe cracker named Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer). Scott finds an unexpected emotional hurdle when Kate joins the expedition to search for Geeta (Huma Qureshi), a mother who’s gone missing inside the city. With a ticking clock, a notoriously impenetrable vault, and a smarter, faster horde of Alpha zombies closing in, only one thing’s for certain in the greatest heist ever attempted: survivors take all.

The cast includes  Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Ana De La Reguera, Theo Rossi, Matthias Schweighöfer, Nora Arnezeder, Hiroyuki Sanada, Garret Dillahunt, Tig Notaro, Raúl Castillo, Huma Qureshi, Samantha Win, Richard Cetrone, and Michael Cassidy.

Netflix will release  Zack Snyder’s Army Of The Dead    globally from this coming Friday, 21st May.