WHAT WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE IN A NEW ZOMBIE MOVIE?
I'm of the belief that for a Zombie movie to be truly great it has to somehow add to the genre. For instance: Night of the Living Dead first introduced the idea that you must destroy the brain/head to kill a Zombie. What would you most like to see in a new Zombie movie?
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Permalink Reply by Der Ostwind on -
How about not completly being turned. You still retain some memories but still crave human flesh. The internal conflitcts of a zombie. I know I am dead, but I really shouldn't eat that person. Maybe you retain some of the human element after you turn, but slowly lose them as your brain succumbs to the virus. You get bit by a zombie and die while blasting away at them with your shotgun. When you turn, you pick up the gun and begin to blast away at them until after a few minutes ,or hours, depending on the severity of the wound, you turn completely. I just think it would be cool to see a a zombie blast another zombie. How about the whole mind controled zombies. "Fido" kinda touched on it, but what if the US military managed to build a platoon of undead solders who could follow orders to kill or capture other zombies to join in the service of the undead army. Please credit any of these ideas to me. Thank You. ;)
P.S. I did not read the comment left by the guy above me. Thinking on the same level.
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Permalink Reply by Nickombie on -
u should watch dead and deader, its a lil cheezy but it some thing like what you are thinking.
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Permalink Reply by Rylan on -
Instead of a movie, what about a TV series? Something along the lines of the Walking Dead comics, where the story follows a group of survivors from day one. On the whole shamblers vs. sprinters, I’d have to say I’m with the traditionalist Romero zombies. Realistically you’d have almost no chance against 28 Days Later virus zombies.
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Permalink Reply by PRIME_Ω_PREDATOR on -
I've been reading The Walking Dead. It's a great character driven comic. So good I've caught up by buying the graphic novels and trades to get me to the point I first started reading. It would make a decent show for HBO or ShowTime. Might be too graphic for regular TV.
Movie Sequels or a Television Series with a core group of characters is what I'd like to see. People who you can take the time to get to know and relate to them before they die and turn. It would be a great weekly series. Decisions constantly being made on the scale of survival and not just what's for dinner or what time should I get up at. Do we stay in this big safe barricaded building and starve or do we take our lives in our hands and venture out to see what we can scavenge? I'd like to watch characters become close to eachother and have to make the hard decisions when the time comes. Do I put a bullet in my sister's head after she's been bit? Do I let her turn before I put a bullet in her head? If I cut off the limb will it stop the spread of the infection? Do I shoot her and then shoot myself (nah)? How many weapons are too many? Do we stay to the roads or do we hit the woods and trails? Noisy cars and trucks or try stealth mode on foot or horseback?
As far as a shambler or sprinter, well give me something in between. How about a Sprimbler? The scary thing about Zombie movies is that you never expect the slow one to catch anyone and then one comes out of the shadows and you end up dumping your drink on the big bruiser in the row in front of you or on your significant other. Those are the times you remember. Well at least until you heal.
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Permalink Reply by JB on -
That's a great idea, and it is plausable, but what kind of character arcs are you going to have? Are you going to have people fall in love? What about children, are there going to be children? How are they going to fit in? Can you plausably connect survivors for a season of episodes and possibly farther into multiple seasons?
Chances are if you can bring the idea to the table and stretch it out for an entire season, you'll gain a following. there's just too many out there like us. But how long can you drag it out?
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Permalink Reply by PRIME_Ω_PREDATOR on
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The genre alone brings in the character arcs. Survival in a hostile world. You've raised the questions that can be a major part of the character's lives. What if she becomes pregnant? What are you willing to do for the one you love? What if you don't fit in with the people you're with? How do you survive? Is survival enoiugh? How do you "LIVE"? Can you attain any type of normal life?
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Permalink Reply by Rylan on
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Well since you’ve asked. I’d fill the cast of this hypothetical zombie TV show with the usual assortment of people from across the social/economic and racial spectrum, a real slice of Americana. I’d start with a core group of survivors, say 6-8 on day one of the outbreak and the series would follow them as they struggle to survive in a world turned upside down. For the first season I’d have them traveling to what they believe is a government safe zone, picking-up other survivors as they go along. No, I wouldn’t have any kids, but that’s my own personal preference. Young children, younger then 15, would probably be more susceptible to a viral zombie plague or get killed so they’d be unlike to be among the survivors anyway, in spite of what you see on the Walking Dead comic series. As for the number of seasons you could potential draw a show like this out I’d say easily at least 3-4, particularly since they’d be a high turn over in characters. And also the longer the series runs the more you’d see how society morphs as a result of the zombie apocalypses.
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Permalink Reply by PRIME_Ω_PREDATOR on
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I agree with the character break down except for the kids. I think kids would make a good catalyst for many stories. Protecting them or not protecting them depending on the individual.
If you are going to travel how are you going to do it? Car or truck. finding gas is a whole story arc. What happens after time when gas starts to gel? It does after about a year or so. Medication for the sick, antibiotics for wounds. There are so many things we take for granted that a series could work off.
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Permalink Reply by Rylan on
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With the violence, gore and adult themes that would obviously go into a cable show like this, it’s not like kids will be part of the target audience and therefore need not to be represented in the series. Having kids on a show like this would also set-up a situation that unless your willing to allow some of the kiddies to get killed off, the series would loose some of its credibility when child character never seem to get killed. If you look at other successful, multi season cable fiction series like Battlestar Galactica (remake), Star Gate or Babylon 5 or most zombies movies ever made, you can see that you can obviously have a show/movie where none of the main characters are children. Frankly I don’t see the appeal, a show like this is intended to show people in unreal situations where they’re constantly on the run from hordes of flesh eating zombies as part of escapist entertainment. I can’t imagine anything more common and banal then watch a show where people have to raise their kids in trying situations. Come on every other show/TV movie on lifetime deals with those themes.
As for transportation for the rest few seasons, if the show last that long, I’d have the survivors travel around in a convoy of assorted vehicles. Siphoning of gas as they went along.
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Permalink Reply by Rylan on
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I mean really we’d be talking about a TV series based on apocalyptic horror films. There’s no future and the fact that there would be few to any children would act as a metaphor for that fact. I’m imaging after enough time went by the show’s world would resemble the Road Warrior with zombies. If you remain true to the themes of the scenra the show would inhabit a very dark, gritty world where the dead have returned to devour the living. The characters would be trying to stave off certain death on a day by day basis. There’s be no happy ending, just people trying to survive against a back drop of inevitable death against the uncountable walking dead. Very much like Lovecraftian horror, just substitute zombies for the forces of the mythos. In a world like that, what would be the point of throwing in X number of kiddies, cause realistically a bunch of them would have to bite it, pun intended, on a regular basis and that would just be gratuitously unnecessary. Hence avoid the whole mess and just avoid having kids on the show.
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Permalink Reply by PRIME_Ω_PREDATOR on
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I don't see kids as the driving main characters but sometimes they just happen.
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Permalink Reply by JB on
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I agree, and I also just want to add that because of me, my children would have a better chance of surviving than most of the people here. You hit it right on the head when you mentioned what a parent is willing to do for their children, but more importantly, what other people are willing to sacrafice for a child as well.
The whole idea about the arc isn't about the story, but each individual character. What is so special about this person, and how do they progress the storyline? Do they sacrafice themselves in a particular time of need? Are they a blacksmith who helps make melee weapons for the survivors?
Another thought, What about special guests? would they have to dedicate them selves to a few episodes? How often are you planning to air an episode? Is it weekly or more often?
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