Lea Thompson, Ron Perlman Fight Zombies In ‘Gatekeeper’

Seems like the zombie genre just won’t die. And the trend seems to favor funny movies about the flesh-eating undead.

First came Shaun of the Dead, soon we’ll have Zombieland, and coming up is Gatekeeper, which has the distinction of featuring Hellboy and Marty McFly’s mom together for the first time!

Here’s how Variety reported the news:

Circle of Confusion’s producing Gatekeeper, a zombie thriller with Matthew O’Leary, Lea Thompson, Judge Reinhold, Ron Perlman and Jana Kramer attached.

Circle of Confusion exec Stephen Emery will produce, with production starting in September.

Isaac Meisenheimer is signed to make his feature directing debut on Gatekeeper. Meisenheimer also penned the script, in which a simple mistake leaves three friends to defend their town from a zombie outbreak.

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Trailer For French Zombie Flick THE HORDE (LA HORDE)

Please find for your zombie loving enjoyment the first official teaser for Yannick Dahan’s gangster zombie flick, La Horde.

Synopsis:
North of Paris. In order to avenge the murder of one of their own by a group of ruthless gangsters, four corrupt cops go on a rampage in a condemned building serving as the mobster’s hideout. Now trapped, the officers are about to be executed when the unimaginable occurs: hordes of bloodthirsty, cannibalistic creatures invade the building, savagely attacking everyone. Unexpected alliances are made when their lives are threatened by the unthinkable.

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Awesome Pics From ‘ZOMBIELAND’

The first stills from Ruben Fleischer’s upcoming zomedy, Zombieland (which stars Jesse Eisenberg who was in also film called Adventureland, which is sorta confusing), have dropped over at AICN and they are pretty damn awesome. Baseball bats, Emma Stone with a shotgun, Woody Harrelson as an “AK-totin’ zombie slaying badass?” It’s all here baby!

Synopsis:
In the horror comedy Zombieland focuses on two men who have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies. Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) is a big wuss — but when you’re afraid of being eaten by zombies, fear can keep you alive. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) is an AK-totin’, zombie-slayin’ badass whose single determination is to get the last Twinkie on earth. As they join forces with Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin), who have also found unique ways to survive the zombie mayhem, they will have to determine which is worse: relying on each other or succumbing to the zombies.

Fleischer promises that Zombieland will not only deliver on the comedy, but will be big on scares as well. It is currently in post-production with an October 9 release date attached. You can check out the stills after the break.

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Zombies Coming To The Big Screen in ‘Deadworld’

“Deadworld,” a comic book series that takes place on Earth four months after the zombie apocolypse, has been optioned by Dark Horse Pictures for a new film franchise according to Variety.

The film will follow Protag, the king of the zombies in the new world order, as he cruises the planet on his Harley Davidson.  Protag bears a grudge against the remaining human survivors who made him an outcast due to his condition.

“Deadworld” will have a script by David Hayter, who will serve an executive producer along with Bill Mechanic and Benedict Carver.  Gary Reed, who co-created and wrote the comic book series, will also serve as a producer accordig to reports.

“It’s very much about the design of the Deadworld and creating cool, frightening but not necessarily gory creatures,” Hayter said. “I am a huge fan of zombie mythology.”

Mechanic said, “I’ve never done anything close to this subject, but I loved the whole world because it’s so unique.”

The first feature, which will begin production early next year, is the first of a proposed series of film that would follow an arc storyline about the zombie-infested future.

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2 Video Clips From Zombie TV Series ‘Lifeless’

Here are two short clips from the upcoming zombie series ‘Lifeless’. Anytime there are zombies you can count me in. I’m keeping an eye on this one.

‘A global pandemic has decimated the population and left the cities deserted. When a handful of survivors find themselves stranded in the aftermath, with the dead returning to life, they must rely on each other to live in a world overrun by the walking dead.’

Lifeless is an episodic drama developed to be devoured by the world via television and the web.

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George Romero To Publish Two Original Zombie Novels

According to our horror loving neighbors at Dread Central, George Romero is in the final stages of negotiations with New York publishers, Grand Central Publishing, to bring readers two novels that would take place within the filmmaker’s "Dead" universe.

Considering this deal is still in negotiations it’s probably a little premature to get too invested in the idea of original Romero novel, but I must say the notion is intriguing. The few zombie novels I have read have all been pretty great and maybe some of Romero’s recent ideas that haven’t translated so well on film would be better served in print.

Another thing I should mention is that it sounds unclear as to whether Romero is actually the author of these books or is just presenting them under his banner. We’ll have to get clarification on that. If all goes well, the first book will be released in the summer of 2010.

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Zombie RPG Coming In A ‘Savage Worlds’ Licensed Product

I’m always looking for new Savage Worlds products on the horizon, and here’s one with zombies….how can you go wrong with zombies? There’s no artwork to look at yet, but if it’s a Savage Worlds setting (with zombies), then it’s sure to please.

Day 108: Its quiet now. I hate the quiet, makes it too easy to think about what I’ve lost. The last of our food supplies were used up last night. We have no choice but to attempt another scavenger mission. We lost 4 people the last time we did that. I keep thinking back to the beginning, back to when things were normal and life was good. None of us had a clue. The reports began sporadically, here and there on the net. We thought they were a joke or some kind of cheap advertisement for something. We were wrong. Zombies are real.

War of the Dead is Daring Entertainment’s game of zombie horror that sends the world into an apocalypse. The virus begins slowly in isolated areas but spreads quickly. Panic takes over, people go mad and nations fall. The Dead have risen and the world is in shambles. The threat of the Dead and the risk of infection are horrible, but often pale in comparison to the acts of your fellow man. Outside of the survivor “Kingdoms”, anarchy and degeneracy rule, and sometimes the “Kingdoms” are worse. Ruins are everywhere, infested with the walking dead and the dead are evolving. Then there are the rumors rumors of creatures worse than the zombies. You have to ask yourself: what will you do to survive?

War of the Dead focuses not only on surviving against zombie hordes, but surviving and thriving among your fellow man in a world gone mad. The game will reach new levels of interactivity using both PDF and online resources to immerse players in the world unlike anything before.

The War is coming in late 2009.

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Bed Bunker Is Ideal For The Zombie Apocalypse

If you’re worried about conspiracy theories on a regular basis, you’ve probably started to think of ways to defend your home.  Well for the extremist, this is one way to make sure your guns and ammunition stay nice and safe.  It’s enough space to make yourself your own miniature army.  You can protect yourself from zombies and aliens alike with this kind of fire power.  Of course you’ll have to be a little more careful with those aliens, they likely have some nasty fire power on them.

You could also store things besides guns within the safe.  It’s protected from fire, so it would also be a great spot to store important documents you want to make it through a fire.  The safe also functions as a  bed, it will work as a twin, queen or king size.  You can get a custom size as well if none of those work for you.  Being a safe it does lock to protect your ammunition and valuables from thieves as well as your kids.  Likely few people would even guess that the clunky bed frame under your mattress is actually a safe.  You can pick it up for anywhere from $2700 on up to $5200.

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Romero’s ‘Night Of The Living Dead’ Gets Re-Animated

George Romero’s ’68 classic Night of the Living Dead has opened itself up to various interpretations due to its "public domain" status – less a blessing, more of a curse as history has taught us (see: Night of the Living Dead 3-D ). The latest stab is Night of the Living Dead: Re-Animated .

This is a "collaborative artistic re-envisioning" of the film featuring international artists and animators who are invited to select their favorite scenes and recreate them through the animated medium of their choice (CG, stop-motion, etc.).

For an example, check out the trailer below. The organizers of this endeavor are still seeking contributions and have extended their deadline to April 24th. For more details, visit NOTLDR.com .

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Undead Movies Becoming A ‘Priority’ At Paramount

Paramount is thinking epic and apocalyptic these days. Over the last week, I met up with one industry insider who tipped me off about a pair of projects the studio is calling “priorities.” The first you already know about: World War Z by Quantum of Solace ‘s Marc Forster and written by J. Michael Straczynski. Word is, production offices are set up and Forster is in early pre-production. Based on a novel by Max Brooks, it’s a detailed tale in which a researcher for the U.N. Postwar Commission interviews survivors from countries all over the world, 10 years after the crisis, to gather a first-person post-mortem on a zombie war that obliterated every country on the map.

The other project is one we haven’t heard about since MTV picked up the rights in 2005: An adaptation of Dark Horse Comics’ Damn Nation.

Here’s a synopsis from the publisher: Imagine a United States shut off from the world by concrete barricades and barbed wire-not because of what might get in, but what might get out. A vampire plague has spread from sea to shining sea and when a small holdout of scientists trapped outside of Buffalo, N.Y. discover a cure, it’s up to a Special Ops team from the President’s current offices in London to go in and get it. Yet, not everyone in the world wants to see America back in the saddle again…

Andrew Cosby penned the comic and, at the time the rights were picked up, writing the screenplay. Paramount owns distribution rights to Damn Nation and, according to my source, they’re pushing it to the top of their to-do list.

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