John Sears | April 13, 2011
Sadly, talented names are getting attached to what may well be the apotheosis of Anti-Zombie hate film: The cinematographer is Oscar winner Robert Richardson, who worked with Pitt on Inglourious Basterds. Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball) will direct the adaptation of Max Brooks’ bestseller, which is rumored to begin filming this month. Shame on all involved.
John Sears | April 12, 2011
Apparently it’s not just ‘World War Z’ that has trouble getting made these days: It had been reported that director Timur Bekmambetov (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) purchased the rights to a film about a girl who transforms into a zombie over the course of six agonizing months, but it appears that movie is back on [...]
John Sears | April 10, 2011
No word yet on whether it’s Zombie Friendly or not; we’re hoping for at least more sympathy than usual to the Differently Animated: After a heated auction for the spec script, Timur Bekmambetov has won rights to produce inventive zombie title, Maggie. … The plot tracks the titular, 16-year old girl from middle America who [...]
John Sears | April 10, 2011
It’s sad that a book as divisive and disturbingly Living Supremacist as ‘World War Z’ is getting made at all, but the hoops it manages to jump through astound me. Someone out in Hollywood must really, really hate Zombies. We’re guessing it’s Brad Pitt: With Paramount threatening to cut the rope without a financing partner, [...]
John Sears | April 6, 2011
I really need to start a list of all the genres that haven’t been crossed with the Zombie Apocalypse meme yet and check them off as new projects are announced. It’d be like playing Bingo, only even more grim and depressing: A zombie apocalypse unites a ragtag pack of dogs in the ruined streets of [...]
John Sears | April 2, 2011
If Australia is sending us what may be the most promising Anti-Zombie satire since AACTV2, then Germany looks to make up for it with a slick indie retread of 28 Days Later: It’s the story of Eloise, who wakes up in a destroyed, life-threatening world after a bad drug trip. Separated from her friends, she [...]
John Sears | April 2, 2011
No, that title isn’t some sort of mad-lib, and no, I haven’t had a stroke. It is, in fact, the actual title of an upcoming short film that looks like it may just be another Atomic Age Cinema-esque brilliant satire of the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ genre: I really wish I could give you more information on [...]
John Sears | March 31, 2011
The Zombie Rights Campaign pays special attention to the way that Anti-Zombie demagogues and raving Zombie hating conspiracy theorists try to market their violence and depravity toward children. Whether it’s cutesy Anti-Zombie videogames like Plants vs. Zombies making their way into American homes, potentially Anti-Zombie messaging in children’s books or vicious pranks against Zombies alongside [...]
John Sears | March 31, 2011
Working with independent filmmakers is one of our favorite activities here at The Zombie Rights Campaign, and we’d like to think our travel to film festivals, attendance at innumerable conventions and consultation with independent filmmakers, actors and artists has made a positive and lasting impact. Naturally, when we come across a promising project in production, [...]
John Sears | March 30, 2011
The ill-advised attempt to adapt Max Brooks’ infamous Anti-Zombie epic, ‘World War Z’, into a feature film starring Brad Pitt seemed to have hit a major snag recently when it was revealed that funding for the movie was hard to come by in these troubled economic times. It appears the studio behind this modern day [...]