If Romero’s zombie film Night Of The Living Dead reinvented the genre as social satire, Danny Boyle’s 2002 post-zombie apocolypse 28 Days Later feels almost like a reaction to the previous year’s terrorist attacks on New York City. A simple bicycle currier awakes from a coma to discover that London has been evacuated for the safety of the countryside, which he strikes out for with a small band of survivors. What caused such an exodus? An engineered virus released from a laboratory has turned a majority of the population into rage-fueled, nocturnal beserkers. A variation on the zombie motif, though Boyle is careful to never use the word in the movie. Ironically, the fast moving creatures of this movie are reportedly the inspiration for the fast moving zombies in Zack Snyder’s remake of Dawn Of The Dead.
Comics And Film
Kenneth Branagh To Direct THOR
Kenneth Branagh, the actor/director best known for adaptating various Shakespeare plays to film in the 1990s, is currently in final negotiations to direct Thor, an adaptation of the Norse god-turned-superhero comic book character, for Marvel Studios. [click for more]
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Academy Award winner Sydney Pollack dies.
CNN is reporting that Academy Award winning director Sydney Pollack has succumbed to his battle with cancer. He was 73. Look for a full obituary to come in the next several days.
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Stephen Chow To Co-Star And Direct Seth Rogen In GREEN HORNET
While it has been a slow week for comicbook film fans, Columbia Pictures dropped a bombshell late yesterday afternoon with the announcement that not only would Hong Kong comic actor/director Stephen Chow, of Shaolin Soccer [click for more]
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