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J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of the sci-fi series Babylon 5 who has also become a popular comic book scribe in recent years, announced yesterday that he is writing the screenplay adaptation of the zombie book World War Z for Paramount. The Max Brooks novel, which was optioned last summer by the studio for Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B, is subtitled An Oral History of the Zombie War.

“You all know the novel World War Z?” asked Straczynski of his audience during a New York Comic-Con panel on Friday. “I’m adapting that for Paramount. For Brad Pitt potentially — we’ll see what happens. He might be the star in it. So things are going very well for a TV guy.”

[more at source: IGN]

I just finished reading this book. It wasn’t a bad execution of a very cool idea. Although I’m partial to Max Brooks first offering, The Zombie Survival Guide I enjoyed the story. It would be cool if zombies were brought this far into the mainstream. The genre might finally explode.

I’m a Bard Pitt fan to begin with (although I hated Troy). The fact that he and his company are even willing to look at making a zombie flick makes me appreciate him even more.

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The more I see the more I want to see. Next month can’t come fast enough!

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This is the trailer Last House Films put together for the SXSW Grindhouse Trailer Competition. Sex, gore, violence, guns, and nudity. A woman is taken captive and forced to breed zombies….but she will get her revenge in this homage to the film trailers of the 1970’s. Directed by Todd Cobery, Produced by Brady Kiernan, Director of Photography Wilson Webb.

Now that’s a grindhouse trailer! Well done. It had every element I look for in a grindhouse movie gore, sex ultra violence and of course zombies! This treat comes to us from the director of Zombie Dodgeball as seen in a previous post. How do I know that? He dropped me a line and told me so.

Thanks for the note Todd and good luck with the SWSX trailer competition. To take a look at more of the entries in the competition head on over to YouTube. They’re not all zombie trailers but some are pretty good. The title Hobo with A Shotgun drew me in.

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This just in! Britney Spears is a zombie created by the Chernobyl disaster. She sure looks toxic to me:

[source Perez Hilton]

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[source University of Western Ontario]

I was reading the zombie entry at Wikipedia and noticed this:

The Epic of Gilgamesh of ancient Sumer includes a mention of zombies. Ishtar, in the fury of vengeance says:

Father give me the Bull of Heaven,
So he can kill Gilgamesh in his dwelling.
If you do not give me the Bull of Heaven,
I will knock down the Gates of the Netherworld,
I will smash the doorposts, and leave the doors flat down,
and will let the dead go up to eat the living!
And the dead will outnumber the living!
It will be awful!

The Epic of Gilgamesh is believed to have been written between 2750 and 2500 BC! I didn’t realize the whole concept of zombies rising up to devour the living was as old as possibly the most ancient written text on Earth. The idea was chilling 4500 years ago and is no less disturbing today. If it was written then, it is most likely even older than that. One can only speculate.

What does this tell us? Zombies as a story device are not going away any time soon.

I can’t say I’m disappointed. This is zombiefreak.com after all.

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All My Friends are Zombies by The Priscillas. Rockin’ tune! I think I’ll watch it again.

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Not your typical Valentine’s Day

The day of love turns into the day of the dead when dozens of zombie-clad citizens stagger through the streets of Eugene.

Valentine’s Day, the holiday for love, lust and… zombies. That’s right, of all the days of the year, the undead of Eugene chose Valentine’s Day to once again roam the earth.

Whether the zombies were suffering from supernatural heartbreak, were beckoned back from the dead by lovelorn souls, or were just plain necrophiliacs, was not really clear. But nonetheless it was a very popular night to be dead.

8:00 p.m. - More than 80 zombies (or rather, the people who were dressed as zombies) in varied states of semi-animated life congregated at Pioneer Cemetery, their eyes sunken, overwhelmed by their lust for flesh…

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A Vietnam War Movie… with Zombies.

Created by Paul Hanley and Kieran Healy
SXSW Grindhouse Trailer

Stop motion can be fun sometimes. Check out Bloodee for a huge list of more cool, but sadly mostly non-zombie, Grindhouse trailers.

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I knew the U.S. President was a zombie. Nice work on this funny little short by Purple Catus Media.

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Creepy zombie girls washing cars. One of them even has a little zombie chihuahua. Eek! Here’s ‘Fashion Freak’:

Well done. A fun little video produced by Zombie Duck films to a catchy electronic tune by Swedish group Naked Ape.

Wait. There’s more. Zombies are a theme for Naked Ape. Check out ‘Undo Redo’:

Pole dancing zombies? Why not?

You can listen to more on the band’s myspace page.

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