No Zombies for Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle was quoted today in a interview over at MTV Movies Blog as saying “It’s not a zombie movie, everyone. It’s not a zombie movie…They’re infected. They’re not zombies.”, in regard to Simon Pegg’s recent request that zombies be slow again. Where was the esteemed Mr. Boyle during our ZMON? 28 Days Later? He also had just a few words on the next 28 Days film, “It don’t think it will be called 28 Months Later, that’s all I can say…I mean, it’s absolutely not written yet, but there’s a prospect of an idea and the way these ideas start is you just suddenly get a little glimpse”.
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Of course it won’t be 28 Months Later. Everyone knows the next one will be 28 Fortnights Later.
It seems to me that everyone who makes a movie that can be called a zombie movie (and be damn good) Says they didn’t do a zombie movie. Romero’s Flesh Eaters anyone? I mean I know lots of people don’t think that the 28’s are zombie movies, but I feel at the core you can find a nice little zombie nugget…
Ideas for the next 28 movie… 28 more days later… you know, because there is more now and off of Britten.
Of course the 28 Later movies aren’t zombie movies, since they don’t have any zombies in them.
Romero’s Dead movies aren’t zombie movies either, by the way, since they are about ghouls and not zombies. They should really be called flesh-eater movies.
Language evolves. Forty years ago, there was only one kind of zombie, and you needed corpse dust and dried puffer fish to make one. Romero’s flesh eaters were called “ghouls” be everyone who chose to assign a specific noun to them (rather than “things” or “those people”). A thousand years ago, a ghoul was something completely different – a shape-shifting demon which fed on the dead, not a dead body which fed on the living.
Danny Boyle wants to say his Infected aren’t zombies, that’s his business. We’ll see what people call them in forty years.