Who Can Lead an Army of Robots Against an Army of Zombies? Dolph Lundgren, Of Course!

True story: a good buddy of mine just bought In the Name of the King: Two Worlds on DVD simply because Swedish action legend and Rocky IV/The Expendables badass Dolph Lundgren was on the cover.  Unfortunately, he didn’t realize it was a Uwe Boll movie until after he got home.  That’s the trouble with doing business with Dolph Lundgren: as one of the biggest stars of direct-to-video action movies, you’re gambling on the quality whenever you pick up a Lundgren movie.  Some days you might pick up Universal Soldier, other days you might pick up Pentathlon.

However, though the execution of Dolph Lundgren’s films aren’t always the greatest, usually the concepts are awesome enough to get your blood pumping.  Take one of his upcoming films, Battle of the Damned, for example: Twitch Film reports that in this post-apocalyptic film, Lundgren will lead an army of robots against legions of zombies.  If you aren’t sold on that already, you just don’t like action movies.  The movie is written and directed by Christopher Hatton, who has had previous robot experience with his 2011 film Robotropolis.

You can read the official plot summary below.  It’s currently set for a 2013 release:

On the outskirts of civilization, a remote test facility lays ruin following a catastrophic security breach. All that remains is a handful of survivors, their small armory of weapons, and a fleet of the infected. The breach lead to a viral outbreak that left hundreds dead or mutated. Now the infected walk the land, stalking the few that stayed alive.

Led by private military operative Max Gatling (Dolph Lundgren, “The Expendables,” “Universal Soldier”), our heroes have learned to fight against the infected, in hopes that rescue will soon come from the outside world. What they weren’t expecting, though, was the emergence of another deadly threat.

The breach also gave way to the escape of a band of malfunctioning prototype robots. Armed and incredibly dangerous, the robots could either be an indomitable force… or an unexpected ally in their battle against the infected masses.