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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Feb 27, 2012 14:03:07 GMT -5
I really want a good Zombie film set in the in Medieval times or the Victorian era, I think that could be amazing and scary.
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Post by DSR on Feb 27, 2012 14:03:44 GMT -5
Isn't Asylum working on "Abe Lincoln Vs. Zombies" right now?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2012 14:19:21 GMT -5
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Post by Glitch on Feb 27, 2012 14:21:28 GMT -5
I actually wrote ideas down for a living dead outbreak that would take place in a barbarian like setting. Since they don't have guns they have to slash with melee weapons. Which caused the problem of being splashed with blood on their faces and getting the infection through their eyes and mouths(since at first the barbarian kingdom attacks the enemy like in a battlefield).
The kingdom was founded on the belief that their hero defeated the lord of the underworld in order to make the world safe for man. And now they think the dead attacking is the lord of the underworld retaliating.
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Post by Red Impact on Feb 27, 2012 14:45:06 GMT -5
Because modern times resonates more with us for zombie apocalypses. You could do great stories based in other eras, but I think studios believe that people just wouldn't connect with a zombie apocalypse set in medieval times.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Feb 27, 2012 14:49:20 GMT -5
Does Army of Darkness count?
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Post by Cela on Feb 27, 2012 14:55:00 GMT -5
There was a comic dealing with recorded outbreaks of attacks throughout history. Some good stuff.
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Post by Chronos on Feb 27, 2012 15:14:09 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Coello on Feb 27, 2012 15:14:50 GMT -5
Modern Day is cheaper.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Feb 27, 2012 15:22:13 GMT -5
Okay now thats what I am talking about, that and this ... Which is completely unrelated ;D
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2012 15:23:35 GMT -5
Romero intended his zombie films to be social commentary and other writer/directors did the same so setting it in the present was the best way to drive that commentary home.
Now people do it because Romero set the standard and its hard for people to break from it.
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Post by wildojinx on Feb 27, 2012 15:54:31 GMT -5
How about a futuristic zombie movie? You can even still explain the outbreak as science gone mad. I want to see some zombies in spaceships.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Feb 27, 2012 19:46:10 GMT -5
I think we have a winner.
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Post by Sajoa Moe on Feb 27, 2012 20:43:57 GMT -5
How about not overcrowding the market with endless zombie fiction?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2012 20:45:24 GMT -5
I want a Zombie/baseball crossover.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2012 23:32:50 GMT -5
A professor in Vermont actually teaches a class called "Victorian Zombies". It's quite interesting, with a syllabus that includes The Beetle (a late Victorian novel that has an Egyptian sorcerer that has zombie like proprieties), Jane Eyre (which inspired the classic zombie film "I Walked with a Zombie and includes a madwoman in the closet that functions much like a zombie) and several fascinating poems. The Victorians had a lot to say about zombie like creatures and zombie like states of being.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Feb 28, 2012 2:10:06 GMT -5
Wasn't Land of the Dead kind of set in the future, or was it more just like a "ok, we've had a zombie apocalypse, so let's try to start to rebuild" kind of thing?
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Post by DSR on Feb 28, 2012 2:49:40 GMT -5
I want a Zombie/baseball crossover. Kinda.
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Post by Loki-A-Go-Go! on Feb 28, 2012 3:21:34 GMT -5
Zombies vs. King Arthur? Zombies vs. Cavemen?
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Post by willywonka666 on Feb 28, 2012 7:36:20 GMT -5
Because modern times resonates more with us for zombie apocalypses. You could do great stories based in other eras, but I think studios believe that people just wouldn't connect with a zombie apocalypse set in medieval times. I don't think studios feel people can connect with the past in general unless it's a period piece and it's historical and HAS to be set in the past. Pussies.
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