Backwoods Horror

First off, yes, I thought of the new Resident Evil game when I saw this.  In the upcoming flick THE DEAD (Official Site), we have ZOMBIES IN AFRICA!  Pretty cool.  Maybe it’ll be a plague or some Zulu Hoodoo Voodoo action, who knows, the trailer is really more of a teaser.  Here the trailer and the scoop from Shock Till You Drop:

British filmmakers Howard and Jonathan Ford collaborated on a zombie film (yes, another one for the genre fire) called The Dead.

Set in the big city? Nope. Suburbia? Nada. A mall? Try again. The Fords have crafted an undead picture for Africa and it looks…pretty damn interesting. Can’t vouch for the performances yet, but I love the look and the possibilities. Rob Freeman stars.

Synopsis: After crashing off the coast, Lt. Brian Murphy battles for survival across the vast terrrains of Africa in search for a way to get back to his beloved family. Joined by local military man Daniel Dembele who is also searching for his son, together both men join forces all the while battling against the ever present threat of the living dead!

We’ll keep an eye out for distribution news…

BITCHIN’!

THIS from Shock Till You Drop:

“Exciting times.” So says “The Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman on his Twitter account. Why?

AMC just gave the green light to the television adaptation of “The Walking Dead”! This means Frank Darabont will be moving behind the camera soon to direct the pilot he penned.

Darabont was attached to the property last summer. Genre lover and producer Gale Anne Hurd is overseeing the series with Circle of Confusion.

If all goes according to plan, Darabont may be neck-deep in the undead this spring or summer telling the story of Rick Grimes, a cop who awakens in a hospital one day to find zombies have overrun the world.

In an interview last fall, Kirkman said, “I’ve told Frank flat-out that I do not want him to follow the comic to the detriment of the show. I encourage him to veer off if he has something that will work really well on TV that wouldn’t work in a comic. I don’t want people who enjoy the comic to be watching the TV show and going, ‘Oh, this is leading to that one thing I already know about from the comic.’”

Can’t wait to see what he does…

Check out the new ZOMBIELAND one-sheet (fancy movie-talk for poster) has hit the web.  Check it out below!  Thanks to ComingSoon.net for this one.

Frank Darabont (THE MIST, SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION) will be writing and directing the mini-series version of the Image Comics hit ‘THE WALKING DEAD’ created by Robert Kirkman for AMC.

This from Shock Till You Drop:

AMC and Frank Darabont (The Mist) are inching ever so close to teaming up to adapt the Image Comics graphic novel series “The Walking Dead,” written by Robert Kirkman.

Darabont will write and direct! Incredible. It’s been rumored that the series would go to Showtime  or HBO, however, Darabont could make this work for AMC.

Variety says that Gale Anne Hurd of Valhalla Motion Pictures and David Alpert of Circle of Confusion are also on board to executive produce.

The story is set among a group of zombie survivors of an apocalypse who are led by a police officer, Rick Grimes, in search of a safe place to live.

AMC Senior Vice President of Programming Joel Stillerman said the series will stay faithful to the tone of the original novels. “This is not about zombies popping out of closets. This is a story about survival, and the dynamics of what happens when a group is forced to survive under these circumstances. The world (in ‘Walking Dead’) is portrayed in a smart, sophisticated way.”

I know I’ll sure as hell be looking forward to this one!  It’ll be fuckin’ awesome.  Forget the shitty CGI in THE MIST, Frank Darabont is one of the few directors who could really breathe life into this comic and make it a badass fuckin’ flick!

So…I’m not exactly sure how this film is being marketed.  It seems like a pandemic flick, a mass plague wiping out mankind; chaos, brutality, and hilarious hijinks ensue.  But then, towards the end of the trailer, it almost seems like an American 28 DAYS LATER as it looks like the infected, or, “Carriers” can still move around like crazy, rabid zombies.  Because Chris Pine’s in it, the film will more than likely hit the big screen as opposed to a direct-to-DVD route.  Here’s hoping it’s more 28 DAYS LATER than DISEASE FLICK.  CARRIERS may be one to watch.  Here’s the Trailer: