Posts Tagged ‘Zombies’
Posted by bob in Films, News on August 5th, 2008
Jake West and Daniel Schaffer have updated Fangoria on the progress in their next film, Doghouse. The film will begin a six week shoot, beginning this week. The film’s website is already live.
The Zombie tale involves a group of seven guys all going through a midlife crisis. Rather than take off for a cattle drive, they choose a guy’s weekend out in the country. They have chosen poorly as something in the air turns the nearby village’s women into cannibals.
The film will star Noel Clarke (Doctor Who), Danny Dyer (Severance), and Emily Booth (Evil Aliens).
Posted by bob in Comics, Films, News on July 28th, 2008
Family Guy showrunner/executive producer David A. Goodman was given the assignment of turning Last Blood from comic book into film according to The Hollywood Reporter. The comic book from Blatant Comics was optioned by Benderspink Productions back in April.
The comic book, written by Bobby Crosby and Chris Crosby and illustrated by Owen Gieni, debuted as part of 2007’s Free Comic Book Day and ran for two issues, completing its run last December. A second miniseries launched online at their website.
According to the company website, “After zombies take over the Earth, vampires must protect the last surviving humans so they can live off their blood.”
The Crosby’s launched Blatant in 1997, mostly doing satire comics until venturing into horror with Last Blood.
Posted by bob in Comics, Films, News on July 22nd, 2008
ZMDs: Zombies of Mass Destruction a title from Red 5 Comics and written by Underworld’s Kevin Grevioux has been picked up by Benderspink for development as a feature film.
” ZMDs: Zombies of Mass Destruction is a bit of a return to my horror roots,” said Grevioux in a release this spring. “Prior to creating this series, I was never really a big fan of zombies. But I came up with what I felt was an interesting twist on the genre and I’m thankful that [Red 5’s] Paul Ens and Scott Chitwood were open to the idea.”
The first of six bimonthly issues is being released this month and the website says the series is about:
“Air-dropped into the deadliest hot zones, the walking dead of ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction indiscriminately infect every last warring insurgent — on either side of the conflict. Specifically engineered to be photosensitive, once enemy infection becomes complete by dawn, both the originals and newly created zombies dissolve as a means to control widespread and accidental zombification. This allows live soldiers to enter and safely occupy the now-combatant-free territory. However, this plan takes a deadly turn when one of the U.S. zombies, dubbed — Zombie Zero — fails to dissolve at the expected time, and begins to wreak havoc in the Middle East by creating others like him. This leads the U.S. military brass to send in a special operative to quietly take out Zombie Zero and his minions before their existence becomes known to the rest of the world.”
This marks the second option the Canadian company has announced in recent weeks. Previously they cut a deal with Toby Maguire’s Relativity shingle for their title Afterburn.
Posted by bob in Comics, News on July 19th, 2008
Ancient Squid Media will be offering up Broken Girls, a brand new graphic novel, due out in September for a measly $10. What’s it about? Co-writer Rob Beales told comicmonsters.com, “In a nutshell Broken Girls is badass schoolgirls fighting mutated hordes of blood-crazed lunatics.”
His partner, Cuitla Huezo, added, “The story takes place in a secret boarding school for the troubled, violent kids of influential families. The kind of place where they ship the worst of the worst – a dysfunctional high school, drug rehab, and mental hospital all rolled into one nightmarish facility.”
“The thing about this place is that it’s funded by drug corporations,” Beales finished. “The ‘students’ are just subjects of drug experiments as scientists try to find the next Ritalin or Prozac. Then things get out of control. A chemical spill spreads throughout the facility and causes every student, guard, and faculty member to mutate into complete psychopaths.”
The project was previewed at last summer’s Comic-Con International with art from Mike Ebert. The final art was provided by RAmado-IMedia Arts.
Posted by bob in Comics, Films, News on July 18th, 2008
For those looking for adventure on the open highways may want to check their rearview mirror in case they’re pursued by Chopper Zombie. Todd Livingston (The Black Forest) has written the series for Devil’s Due with the first issue coming out on July 30. It is already being produced as a feature film by Thom Beers who is stepping aside from his work in reality TV to handle something truly horrifying. The film is in pre-production with no behind-the-camera talent announced.
The premise has a motorcycle engineer creating a new superfuel which a corrupt corporation wants for their own purposes. When he rejects their offer, he’s attacked and drowned in his own concoction. The formula resurrects his body and the man is out for revenge, aided by other zombie bikers.
Art comes from newcomer Scott Keating.
Posted by bob in Films, News on July 8th, 2008
The Horde is a new zombie film about to roll from producer Xavier Gens (Frontier(s)). He told Twitch Film that the movie will involve cops, robbers and zombies ins something akin to Die Hard crossed with REC. Directors Yannick Dahan (Suck my Geek) and Benjamin Rocher (Hominusrex Creator) expect to shoot in September and are looking for running zombies so check out their posts on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26227680154) and MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/lahordelefilm) if you have what it takes to be undead.
Posted by bob in News on June 11th, 2008
First, VH-1 goes looking for the next Scream Queen, now they’re on the hunt for the next great Zombie.
Blair Butler, host of G4’s Attack of the Show, is shooting a pilot called America’s Next Top Zombie Idol. We’re not sure where they will dig up the 8-10 zombie contestants who will live together and compete for an undisclosed prize but if the show is picked up, it’ll air later in the 2008-2009 season.
Posted by bob in Films, News on June 5th, 2008
Commercial director Matthijs van Heijningen has been tapped by Warner Bros. to replace Zack Snyder as director of the forthcoming Army of the Dead. According to Variety, Snyder (Watchmen) will remain involved as a producer. The will be van Heijningen’s feature debut and it’s a tall order given the scope of this zombie project. The story features zombies, of course, but they arrive in Las Vegas and take over the city. It will focus on a father trying to save his daughter from being consumed. No casting or production details have been released.
Posted by bob in Films, News on June 3rd, 2008
Harvard and zombies. Not a match one normally thinks about the Cambridge area but that will change when Warran Zide unleashes Harvard Zombie Massacre. According to Variety, the producer of the first three Final Destination films (as well as the American Pie series) has said he’s at work on this story of over-achievers versus the most intelligent flesh-eaters on Earth.
A script is being written by the untested duo of Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, with shooting start early in 2009.
Posted by bob in Comics, Reviews on May 27th, 2008
BOOM! Studios has been off to an impressive start with a wide array of subject matter and they have attracted a nice variety of talents. People seem to be finally catching on as some of their offerings have gained traction. Among them is Zombie Tales, which has previously been a miniseries. Tomorrow, the first issue of an ongoing monthly series launches.
The comic has three stories, one serial, two stand-alone and they are all good looking and well-written. It’s tough to find something new to say about a zombie attack or being a zombie so finding compelling stories will be tough and in all three cases, the writers have opted to focus on one or two main characters, making them the focal point and making the reader care. (more…)
Jake West and Daniel Schaffer have updated Fangoria on the progress in their next film, Doghouse. The film will begin a six week shoot, beginning this week. The film’s website is already live.
