28 Days Later (Alex Garland)
Apr. 17th, 2003 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiJust read this last night. It's the screenplay (released in book format) for the upcoming zombie film of the same name. Garland is the guy who wrote The Beach (which was a much better book than movie), and The Tesseract, which is fucking brilliant. WHen I heard that he was writing the screenplay for a zombie flick, I was stoked. When I heard that Danny Boyle (who gave us Trainspotting), I knew I'd want to see it opening day.
The film still isn't out, but the screenplay makes it look damned good. It's not quite as original as I'd hoped for -- Garland acknowledges the influences of Cronenberg (huge), Romero (unavoidable), and others (he fails to mention Peter Jackson, but he's there too) -- but it's very nifty. And I'm looking forward to seeing how it was filmed (as Boyle's style could drastically change many of the scenes, even though this was the shooting script). You can get info (including trailers) at http://www.28dayslaterthemovie.co.uk/main.html (warning: The site has a lot of Flash that you can't skip, so mute your computer first if you're at work w/o headphones).
Interestingly, the final twenty minutes or so remind me, of all things, of Dog Soldiers. Will be interesting to see how it comes across on screen.
The film still isn't out, but the screenplay makes it look damned good. It's not quite as original as I'd hoped for -- Garland acknowledges the influences of Cronenberg (huge), Romero (unavoidable), and others (he fails to mention Peter Jackson, but he's there too) -- but it's very nifty. And I'm looking forward to seeing how it was filmed (as Boyle's style could drastically change many of the scenes, even though this was the shooting script). You can get info (including trailers) at http://www.28dayslaterthemovie.co.uk/main.html (warning: The site has a lot of Flash that you can't skip, so mute your computer first if you're at work w/o headphones).
Interestingly, the final twenty minutes or so remind me, of all things, of Dog Soldiers. Will be interesting to see how it comes across on screen.