More Craziness
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Category: Zombies
No Escaping The Crazies
The Crazies doesn’t open until February 26th, but between now and then we’re going to be exposed to a lot of media promoting the remake of the George Romero cult classic about a small group of family and friends trying to survive after their little town is exposed to toxic materials that turn folks into crazed killers. Not only does the group have to worry about the crazies, but also the military that has been sent in to eliminate everyone.
But back to the promotional tie-ins. There’s this article at USAToday that talks about the comic book tie-ins. And this digital motion comic trailer. The Crazies web site is now live and features all of the bells and whistles.
Now all that is left is to hope the movie lives up to the hype.
Walking Dead Gets a Start Date
In our on-going coverage of The Walking Dead moving from a comic series to a tv series… the website Bloody Disgusting reports…
…that a May 15 start date has been announced for the pilot episode of “The Walking Dead”, AMC’s live-action comic book adaptation being directed by Frank Darabont. Shooting will commence in Atlanta, GA.
For the full report, click here. Good times.
“The Walking Dead” Moves Closer
Patrick Sauriol at Coming Attractions has posted an exclusive review of Frank Darabont’s pilot script for AMC’s “The Walking Dead”. Darabont, who will also be directing the pilot is perhaps best known for his work as the screenwriter/director of “The Shawshank Redepmption”, “The Green Mile” and “The Mist”.
Saurol’s review is extremely positive and the following paragraph gives the best indication of why he thinks “The Walking Dead” will be a great series:
Contained in Darabont’s 60-page pilot script are all the elements to make the show a success. There’s plenty of horror that happens in those 60 pages. The director’s script covers the broad range of the zombie horror emotional spectrum, such as giving us moments of extreme gore (hey, any zombie TV show wouldn’t be a zombie show if it didn’t have folks being munched on!), moments of shock value (hey, you didn’t think that there was a zombie hiding behind that car, did you?) and the moments that I believe are the best indicator that The Walking Dead TV series has what it takes to transcend the boundaries of being simply labelled a horror show, the psychological horror scenes. Those scenes are the hammers that you’re going to remember and the ones that are going to propel this show to be viewed as something more important than just a scary show.
You can read the full piece by clicking here.
As a long-time fan of “The Walking Dead” comic series, I’m psyched as the television adaption moves closer and closer to my tv screen.
Sketch of the Dead
Since many of the folks that drop by here are fans of zombie movies, I thought that they [and hopefully you are part of “they”] would get a kick out of this short humorous take on two guys hoping to survive a zombie outbreak. Without further adieu I give you Sketch of the Dead.
Isle of the Dead
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of movies and books which focus on a small band of people who find themselves up against incredible odds in a life or death struggle. That’s one of the reasons that zombie stories appeal to me. Not because of the gore, but how much more outnumbered and against it can you be then when you’re fighting a world of dead beings? That’s why I love really good zombie stories like the original “Night of the Living Dead”, the remake of “Dawn of the Dead” and the comic series “The Walking Dead”.
Of course the “bad guys” don’t have to be zombies. The could be aliens [“Aliens”], nazis [“The Dirty Dozen”], Mayans [“Apocalypto”], but there’s just something about zombies that kick things up a notch. Maybe because they want to eat you and maybe because anyone in the group could become one. At any rate…
Earlier this year Miguel Insignares told me about a project that he’s putting together called “The Rufnex: Isle of the Dead”. It was such a cool concept that I wanted to start talking it up right away, especially after seeing some of the prelimiary art and names attached to the project. Yesterday Miguel’s Isle of the Dead site went live. If you go there, you’ll learn more about the project as well as see the names already attached. You’ll even learn how you could become a zombie in the comic. What could be better than that?
Zombie Survival Odds
I recently took this Real Zombie Survival Survey over at Facebook. I have to admit that I was surprised that my survival odds were 95% because I answered as truthfully as possible.
Okay, if a zombie infestation breaks out, we all meet up at my house. That is, unless someone scores higher. Then we rendezvous at his/her joint.
Walking Dead Strolls to AMC
If you’re a fan of The Walking Dead [and if you’re not, you should be], you’ll want to check out this brief talk with the creator of the series, Robert Kirkman as he discusses the transition of the comic to tv series.
Zombieland: “Nut Up or Shut Up
ComingSoon.net scored the first look at the new “Zombieland” poster.
“Nut Up or Shut Up” indeed.
14 Pages of “28 days later”
Newsarama.com is running a 14 page preview of issue one of “28 days later.” If you liked the movie, you’ll probably dig the comic. Check out the preview and see what you think!
“Walking Dead” Live @ AMC
Variety announced today that AMC is…
“close to finalizing one of the richest development deals ever with [Frank] Darabont to write and direct a series adaptation of the Image Comics graphic novel series ‘The Walking Dead,’ penned by Robert Kirkman.
As a reader who has been with the series since issue one, and who still reads it immediately after getting home, you’d be right to say I’m thrilled. This has the potential to be really, really good.
“Zombieland” & Tarantino Character Posters
How about a look at a couple of new movie posters? “Zombieland” (which looks like a ton of fun) is above. IMPAwards.com has an amusement park-sized version that you can see by clicking here. They also have a new character poster for Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” that is right here.
Daybreakers Follow Undead
AICN scored the first look at “Daybreakers” – the Spierig brothers’ follow-up to “Undead”. Quint describes the film by saying it’s a:
futuristic vampire tale starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill. It’s about a plague that turns the vast majority of the Earth’s population into vampires. The remaining humans have to be rounded up and farmed as the supply of fresh blood grows smaller and smaller and the demand grows larger and larger. The vampires must figure out a way to replicate the blood or save the human race or they, too, will die out.
Sounds pretty cool. Check out the AICN post here and see the poster in it’s ginormous glory.
Let’s All Go to Zombieland!
Zombieland looks like fun. My kind of fun, anyway.
Dead Zombie Ratings
According to this site, the ZONE should be rated PG-13 due to using the word “dead” 9 times, “zombie” 4 times and “death” once. Well, I do write, on a fairly regular basis, about how great the comic “The Walking Dead” is… and it is about zombies.
I guess if I’d been talking up “Hellboy” I might have gotten an “R” rating?? Oops.
