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Post by tannerboyle on Aug 3, 2008 23:31:06 GMT -5
Okay. You guys know I'm pretty critical of GAR's work. Especially as a screenwriter. His characters are two-dimensional. Cookie-cutters taken from whatever's trendy at the time. Their dialogue is rarely representative of the characters speaking it. There are serious problems with the pacing of the plot. Too many attempts at catch-phrases. Poor technical research. The list goes on and on.... BUT...say you were presented with a mini-series that corrected all of that. Great plot and character development. Eight of the ten episodes don't even have zombies in them. Lots of backstory. Would you go for it? Or, does it have to be all zombies and camp all the time? Would you want to finally see a serious take on the genre--the way the vamps and werewolves have already have? Enquiring minds want to know...  |
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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 3, 2008 23:38:37 GMT -5
I sure as hell would. Sounds like a good idea to me.
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Post by tannerboyle on Aug 3, 2008 23:42:16 GMT -5
It's just that no one has every really put effort into a zombie screenplay. Just attempts at schlock horror.
I'm wondering if zombie and horror fans would go for an involved screenplay with characters that have alot going on to begin with...and then the zombies are thrust into their lives, changing everything.
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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 3, 2008 23:43:16 GMT -5
Read World War Z. You would probably love it.
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Post by The Dead Walk! on Aug 3, 2008 23:54:11 GMT -5
I'd love to see a serious zombie epic.
See, I'm in the camp that takes GAR's original trilogy as serious... but that doesn't mean I'm against something taken to the next level. A "Godfather" of zombie films if you will.
I've actually always thought a serious zombie television series would be an outstanding idea, especially if done on HBO or Showtime. And a lot of episodes wouldn't even need to have zombies... the show would be mostly a character drama with a zombie outbreak as the premise. You could have whole episodes where the survivors are holed up, or perhaps scouring for supplies... you'd have what all great dramas have (character development, backstory, etc). I sort of envision it as a more serious, dark version of the television show LOST... like that show, where the main concept is survivors of a plane crash on a deserted island, but the episodes are mainly about story and characters.
I think it could be a serious hit.
Has anyone ever read the comic books, The Walking Dead? That would be an almost PERFECT thing to adapt into a show.
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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 3, 2008 23:57:50 GMT -5
What are these comics you speak of? Who is the publisher, DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Vertigo? Youv'e been holding out on me.
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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 4, 2008 0:14:47 GMT -5
Did some surfing and found it. Looks simply fantastic. Gonna have to start collecting these.
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Post by The Dead Walk! on Aug 4, 2008 0:30:32 GMT -5
Yep, Image publishes them. They are incredible. I haven't gotten them in a while, but the ones I have (I started collecting from the beginning) kick ass.
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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 4, 2008 0:32:27 GMT -5
There's a ton of them on ebay for $2. I'm gonna get the trade paperbacks. It's the easiest way to read stuff that has been out for a while, instead of collecting all of the issues.
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Post by blackknight273 on Aug 4, 2008 2:08:50 GMT -5
I dont read comics so I'll have to pass, but I would love to see a serious take on zombies. We've seen the world fall apart in various ways a ton of times. How about how one family deals with survival and loss? I'd love to see that.
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Post by UndeadNed on Aug 9, 2011 22:14:08 GMT -5
Has anyone ever read the comic books, The Walking Dead? That would be an almost PERFECT thing to adapt into a show. Nice prediction there Tony |
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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 10, 2011 6:15:45 GMT -5
Haha! Nice necropost Ned!
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Post by The Dead Walk! on Aug 10, 2011 8:43:54 GMT -5
Hey nice! I guess I'm a bit of a psychic after all.  |
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Post by Flesh Eater on Aug 10, 2011 8:57:17 GMT -5
Now tell me those lotto numbers and nobody gets hurt.
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Post by Flyboy on Aug 10, 2011 9:34:41 GMT -5
Haha awesome!
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