Seriously, I cannot make this stuff up:

Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Gillian Anderson, and Mark Williams are attached to star in Matthew Butler’s 18th century zombie romp, The Curse Of The Buxom Strumpet.

Butler will direct and has co-written the script with Tori Hart for the feature in which the inhabitants of a small seaside town are struck down with a deadly illness.

The feature is an extension of Butler’s short comedy film E’gad Zombies, also starring McKellen.

So Ian McKellen and Judi Dench, both Academy Award nominees and world-renowned actors are going to co-star with Gillian Anderson in a ‘zombie romp’. Sadly, it doesn’t sound like it will be a Zombie Friendly take on the genre, what with the ‘deadly illness’ phrasing.

Still, the ZRC holds out hope. Perhaps the serious star power attached to this film can be harnessed to present The Cause to a wider audience.

Probably not, but here’s hoping for a bold step forward… and not another ‘Shaun of the Dead’.

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