Check out this sneak-peek of the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel, adapted by scribe Tony Lee (Doctor Who comic) and illustrated by Cliff Richards (Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic), courtesy of the awesome pop-culture blog Pop Candy.
Awesome! Viz Media is going to be releasing Q Hayashida’s dark as fuck manga series Dorohedoro, starting this month. While not primarily a zombie series, there is so much darkness and grit and monsters and zombies, that any fan of the genre should take a chance and check it out. Only $12.99 for 176 pages!
While not exactly a zombie film, we thought you’d still like to know that The Crazies remake opens today! I’m a huge fan of the original 1973 George A. Romero film and I am heading out soon today to check out this new version. I was slightly surprised by the trailer for the remake by the simple fact that I after I watched it, I wanted to see it. Not normal for a remake theses days!
So according to USA Today, the iPhone app for Plants vs. Zombies seems to be doing well, selling over 300,00 in it’s first nine days, setting a new sales record for apps. Any of our readers get this for their iPhone/ iTouch? Let us know!
According to the Left 4 Dead blog, 28,981,249,043 zombies have been killed since the games release in November 2009. Here’s the breakdown from their post:
• The entire population of the planet has been zombified and killed 4.26 times.
• With the average height of a zombie being 6 feet, if you stacked them end to end they would circle the globe 1,322 times.
• If you placed 28,981,249,043 rulers end to end, they would reach 28,981,249,043 feet in the sky.
This is odd:
“A man known as the “Zombie Bandit,” suspected of robbing banks…was sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison Tuesday for a string of heists. Authorities said Hurwitz (the “Zombie Bandit” -ed.)…earned his nickname for his mumbling and blank demeanor…”
(Via MercuryNews.com)
Last August we reported that a television series based on the seminal comic book series The Walking Dead was in the works, and today Grim Santo wrote in to let us know that AMC has given the green light to create a pilot. Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) will be directing with Gale Ann Hurd producing. With big names like this, it’s clear AMC is putting in the effort (and presumably cash) to do the series justice.
Yesterday we reported on Zombies in Love – an upcoming art exhibition celebrating Valentine’s Day and zombies. Today comes news of two zombie flicks in production with a romantic bend: Diablo Cody Hopes to Spark Zombie Romance with Breathers and Jonathan Levine Directing Warm Bodies Zombie Love Film.
Obviously the commercial success of vampire/romance crossover Twilight is to take some of the blame, but does this mean we’ll soon see sparkly zombies? Or is this an attempt to lighten up the typical doomsday scenarios of most zombie movies?
Here’s why I don’t think it will take off as a fad: zombies make terrible protagonists. The very definition of the word zombie uses the term “a soulless corpse” – not exactly something that would be exciting to watch. A soulless corpse is boring, has no motivation and a desire for little other than human flesh. The best zombie flicks tell stories about human interactions – betrayal, cooperation, mortality, and endurance of the human spirit. Telling these stories through the eyes of a zombie seems gimmicky at best. Audiences will it find it difficult to connect with characters that look as gruesome as a corpse.
What are your thoughts? Care to disagree? Let us know in the comments!
Capcom announced the upcoming release of Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition for XBox 360 and PS3. The gold edition contains the original game, all downloadable content, and two brand new episodes (Lost in Nightmares and Desperate Escape) to play. Already own Resident Evil 5? Don’t worry, the new content will also be available as a download. Resident Evil: Gold Edition will be released March 9th, 2010.
Thanks to Haddon for turning us on to upcoming zombie/western film Devil’s Crossing. On schedule for a late April release, Devil’s crossing promises to be edgy and violent. Here’s a quick plot synopsis:
Devil’s Crossing is set in a post-apocalyptic western time period. After the world has been destroyed and ravaged by nuclear war, the remaining human life is fighting for survival. The world is shattered and life as we know has gone to complete hell. Shadrach a man, who has sold his soul to the devil, must kill to keep his life. As he drifts from town to town his only job is to collect the bodies the devil sees fit to be dragged directly to hell. On one certain dark night Shadrach decides to give up his vicious job and return to a normal life of simplicity. The devil, in the form of a man, comes after Shadrach to confront him about his decision. After an intense and grueling argument the devil leaves Shadrach and the townspeople to fight for themselves as he summons a massive group of zombies. The zombies ravage the town killing townspeople in route to an epic showdown with Shadrach.
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