Getting Excited About Dylan Dog
I’d heard about this movie before, and even seen the trailer, but something about it didn’t stick for me until I watched a scene on FEARnet today, and now I’m legitimately excited.
The movie is called ‘Dylan Dog: Dead of Night’, and on the surface is a fairly bland seeming, Hellblazer-ish story about the one Living guy who has to act as an investigator and enforcer amongst communities of the Differently Animated, in this case in New Orleans.
But looking deeper, it seems like the titular character, and perhaps the movie itself, is pretty sympathetic to the plight of the Differently Animated/Undead.
In particular, if the trailer and the FEARnet scene are any indication, a major subplot of the movie will be Dylan’s attempts to help a freshly reanimated Zombie cope with the difficulties in suddenly finding yourself Undead in a society that doesn’t even acknowledge the existence of the Differently Animated, much less celebrate and include them.
Take a look at this:
I love this dialogue:
Woman: You make it sound like monster hunters are the bad guys, which really doesn’t make any sense, because since when are monsters the good guys?
Dylan: Well that all depends on who you think the monsters are.
Then there’s this, from the FEARnet description of the film:
Brandon Routh stars as Dylan Dog, world famous private investigator specializing in affairs of the undead. His PI business card reads “No Pulse? No Problem.”
The movie comes out April 29th, and the ZRC is definitely going to take in a screening. Even if it’s just a passable action movie in the end, the glimmers of tolerance and understanding for the Zombie Community we’ve seen so far could make Dylan Dog Hollywood’s first serious attempt to move beyond hatred and fear of Zombies into accepting them as part of society.
And of course, as a lucrative potential market.
Trailer:
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