Sold: Yet another zombie project
First Showing.net reported this last Monday:
Budding screenwriter Geoff LaTulippe is on a roll — his breakout script Going the Distance was on the Black List and is in development at New Line and now he’s set to adapt a novel called “Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament” written by S.G. Browne. In advance of its actual debut on bookshelves, LaTulippe is teaming up with producers Diablo Cody and Mason Novick (Juno, Jennifer’s Body) to adapt the zombie novel and sell it to a studio. Sounds like one hell of a dream team. I’m sure the three are planning to whip up a “rom-zom-com” movie that, just as book does, “reinvents zombie culture for the 21st century.”
Here’s a description of the plot from a reader at Amazon:
“Andy Warner reanimates after the car accident that kills his wife, but is too mangled from his injuries to talk. He lives in his parents’ wine cellar, occasionally attending a zombie support group and struggling to rejoin a society that offers the undead no rights, bans them from working and doesn’t even punish those who destroy them. When Andy and his fellow zombies — notably Rita, a sexy suicide victim with a lipstick fetish, and Jerry, a Playboy-obsessed stoner — learn why they’re so driven to consume human flesh, the repercussions are both tragic and hilarious.”
Looks like the dealmakers were successful as word on Tracking Board.com is that Fox Searchlight has secured the project. On the heels of this and this, Hwood can’t seem to get its fill of zombies.
Why the popularity of zombies? I remember last Halloween as I drove into work, listening to the local college FM station, and they had a couple of students on who were really into the whole zombie thing, down to the minutiae of what characteristics qualify as zombie and what do not.
Perhaps because we all work so hard, we feel half-dead?
Your theories?
UPDATE: If you enter “top zombie movies” into Google, the top search site is About Men.com. Their top 10 zombie movies:
1. Dead Alive (1992)
2. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
3. Army of Darkness (2003)
4. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
5. Zombie (1979)
6. Re-Animator (1985)
7. Century Man (1994)
8. Bio Zombie (1998)
9. 28 Days Later (2002)
10. Day of the Dead (1985)
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