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Carol Browne went to the Vancouver zombie walk today. Check out her post with link to more photos at her blog:
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Comments(1)Zombify Your Friends
Tired of having buddies that don’t eat brains? Yeah, I am too. It’s time to CHANGE that, and for around $20 for a whole horde of rotten-flesh terrors.
Watch the full episode here:
http://www.indymogul.com/episode/bfx_…Get the details on how to zombify your friends:
http://www.indymogul.com/post/700/bui…
Brain-eating zombies invade SF Apple store
A horde of decaying zombies invaded San Francisco’s downtown Apple store on Friday evening, hunting for brains, terrifying the customers, and gnawing on iMacs.
I’ve placed some photos here. I’m pleased to report that the zombies ultimately decided human brains were tastier than plastic iMacs, although it wasn’t for lack of effort in trying to vary what must be a monotonous diet.
[more at source]
Zombie Fever!
As 28 Weeks Later is about to be released interest in zombie films is on the rise again (pun intended). I was interviewed for this article at Movies.com. Check it out: Zombie Fever!
It used to be aliens; now, everywhere we turn, the undead are lurking! Whatup with our zombie-movie bloodlust? Plus, the 15 zombie movies we can’t live without!
By Joal Ryan
JS Online: Living dread
Living Dread
In times of uncertainty, film zombies feed on our anxieties
By DUANE DUDEK
Journal Sentinel film critic
Posted: April 20, 2007When Marlon Brando roared into town in “The Wild One” in 1953, it was as the sneering postwar poster boy for the looming seismic spasm in generational priorities and aspirations.
“What’re ya rebellin’ against, Johnny?” a sweet young thing asked him.
“Whaddya got?” he snarled.
He was the fear of the new, in leather and jeans astride a chrome mushroom cloud of his own making. Change doesn’t always announce itself so clearly, but fear of it is a subconscious constant in our lives. It pads on cat’s paws into the collective cultural imagination, and bats intent and perception around like a stunned mouse.
If the marketplace is in any way responsive to fear itself, then death is on our minds. And one way this has manifested itself lately is in the rebirth of the undead.
Let’s face it: The zeitgeist is crawling with zombies, just in time to address our post-Sept. 11 anxieties.
What’re ya rebellin’ against?
How about terrorism, disease, war, illegal immigration, gun violence, fear of the other and the so-called clash of civilizations?
“Whenever there is a time of upheaval and uncertainty, we turn on the zombie tap,” said Max Brooks, creator of “The Zombie Survival Guide,” a scientifically rigorous parody (in which “everything is real, except the zombies,” he said), and “World War Z,” an oral history of a zombie war that was inspired by Studs Terkel’s World War II chronicle “The Good War.”
Zombies, Brooks said, “are a way to explore our apocalyptic fears in a safe way.”
“If you had a bunch of movies coming out about real plagues or terrorists nuking America, that’s pretty scary stuff. You wouldn’t sleep at night. But if you’re watching a zombie movie, you can exorcise your demons in a way,” Brooks said.
[more at source]
Zack Snyder and a New Zombie Flick
As “300″ continues its march through the worldwide box office, director Zack Snyder is mustering another sort of army.
Snyder and Warner Bros. are reteaming on zombie action-thriller “Army of the Dead,” based on an original story by Snyder. He’s producing with wife Deborah Snyder through their recently launched shingle, Cruel & Unusual Films, based at Warners.
It’s too early to say whether Zack Snyder is considering “Army” as a directing vehicle for himself. He will next direct “Watchmen” for Warner, based on the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons graphic novel about a group of retired superheroes who reunite to save the world from disaster. He’s set to begin lensing at the end of the summer, with the studio eyeing a 2008 release.
Snyder and Warner have set Joby Harold, who penned the upcoming “Awake” for the Weinstein Co., to pen the script for “Army.” Cruel’s Wesley Coller is exec producing.
Set in a quarantined Las Vegas in the not-too-distant future, “Army” revolves around a father who tries to save his daughter from imminent death in a zombie-infested world. (Snyder got his first taste of zombies directing the remake of “Dawn of the Dead” for Universal.)
Snyder, who has been on a press tour promoting the opening of “300″ domestically and overseas, told Daily Variety that he wants “Army” to have a sweeping, epic quality, along the lines of the highly stylized “300.”
“I feel like there hasn’t been a zombie movie on the scale that we want to do it,” Snyder said from the Bahamas, where he is shooting a commercial.
He said it’s too early to say how “Army” will be shot — “300″ was filmed entirely in front of a green screen — but that the project is likely to borrow some of the same techniques.
Cruel & Unusual also is developing action-fantasy “Sucker Punch,” which Snyder is co-writing with Steve Shibuya from an original story by Snyder.
Zack and Deborah Snyder are repped by CAA. Harold also is repped by CAA.
[source Variety.com - Warner, Snyders enlist in new 'Army']
Babylon Fields set to begin filming
“Babylon Fields” is an upcoming, 1-hour dramatic CBS TV pilot, set to film in Long Island, New York mid-March.Premise of the show has resurrected dead people aka ‘zombies’, working at normal jobs.
Michael Cuesta will direct from a teleplay by Michael Atkinson and Gerald Cuesta.
Amber “Joan of Arcadia” Tamblyn will star, playing ‘Janine Wunch’.
Casting is still looking for:
‘JIMMY VISKUPIC’
22. One of ‘Lester Viskupic’’s sons, kind, and level-headed, he’s scared of the zombies, not to mention his dad’s sudden military nut-job act. Jimmy wears a metal crutch on his arm and sports withered, shortened legs. He ushers ‘Shirley’ and ‘Janine’ inside the house for their safety and worries when Janine runs off to confront ‘Ernie Munch’.
‘DALE’
22. He is Jimmy’s dimbulb ex-jock brother; probably not the best man for the job of mixing chemicals to create bombs in the Viskupic make-shift military production line.
[source SNEAKPEEK.CA]
Zombies go A-list
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.
She’s a Zombie
This just in! Britney Spears is a zombie created by the Chernobyl disaster. She sure looks toxic to me:
[source Perez Hilton]
Ancient Zombie Reference
[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.
