Aug 5 2009 'Zombieland' Trailer: Zombie Brains, Zombie Boobs, Timid Whining
Put the kids to bed: there's a new, R-rated trailer for the undead brain-eater comedy Zombieland, and it fully earns its R-rating. Graphic content includes: lots of zombie carnage, bouncing zombie boobs in pasties, F words, and, most brutal, Jesse Eisenberg so far into Michael Cera's rival territory that he's surely by now a POW, captured and caged within his own slumped shoulders. Every time he speaks, you can't help but hear a phantom Arrested Development ukulele strumming faintly in the distance.
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Jul 15 2009 'Zombieland' Poster: Zombieland Would Make a Great Video Game Level
Like for Mario Kart. "Bowser's Creepy Carnival" or something; maybe you'd have to avoid the Ferris wheel gondolas as you drive under it. I don't know. I'm not Michael Nintendo.
'Zombieland' Poster [IGN]
Jun 19 2009 'Zombieland' Trailer, Says Sir Ian
It's Natural Born Killers, with zombies, only not at all! More accurately, it's the Zombieland trailer, starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone as zombie survivalists, and Mike White as a guy on a toilet.
Sir Ian McKellen delivers Stephen-Fry-in-Hitchhiker's-Guide-style narration over the whole thing, and it's a joy to hear Gandalf say the word "zombie." A real sandwich for your ears:
Jun 12 2009 'Zombieland' Photos: Duck, I'm Going to Hit this Zombie with a Bat
I'm pretty sure Shaun of the Dead has forever won the genre, but if you're interested in giving more zombie comedy a try, AICN has some shots from Ruben Fleischer's Zombieland, starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin.
In the above shot, is that Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin? Supposedly there's also a brief cameo involving a zombie Bill Murray, so I'm thinking maybe there's a subplot where the zombies find a Second City Rolodex and strategically hunt down alumni. These zombies specifically want brains capable of humorously improvising a series of thematically-related scenes.
Feb 12 2009 Studios Fight for Jane Austen with Zombies
Hollywood studios have confused a glorified fan-fiction/decent Threadless t-shirt idea for a great movie script, and they're now in a bidding war for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a not-yet-released parody of the Jane Austen classic that adds some extra content that implies a zombie invasion was simultaneously occurring:
Hollywood studios are bidding to turn a radical reworking of Austen’s most popular book, now called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a parody to be published in April, into a blockbuster movie.The forthcoming novel is the first mainstream “mash-up” of Austen and horror, two of the most popular film genres of the past decade.
“It quickly became obvious that Jane [Austen] had laid down the blueprint for a zombie novel,” said Grahame-Smith, a television comedy writer. “Why else in the original should a regiment arrive on Lizzie Bennet’s doorstep when they should have been off fighting Napoleon? It was to protect the family from an invasion of brain-eaters, obviously.”
From then on it was easy to imagine Bennet and her four sisters as zombie slayers, trained since childhood in the deadly arts of Chinese kung fu, and Fitzwilliam Darcy as a promoter of the socially superior ninja skills of Japan.
“About 85% is the original Jane Austen text,” he said.
(Thanks, Alix.)
Is that really all it takes to get a book and movie deal now? Combining a classic novel with a character that's popular in the realm of pseudo-humor? I can do that:
Jane Arrrrr - Jane Eyre, but some of the dialogue is changed so that the characters sound like pirates.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnja - The Mark Twain classic reimagined with Huck having ninja abilities.
Of Mice and Men and Robots - The complete text of Of Mice and Men with an epilogue that explains how robots can and will easily crush both mice and men.
Now give me money.
Jane Austen's Bennet girls go zombie slaying [Times Online] (via Cinematical)
Dec 12 2008 'Paris by Night of the Living Dead' Clip: Zombie Murder!
I've made a vow to never watch any movie based on a Wheel of Fortune before-and-after puzzle, but despite the arbitrary decrees I uphold about what movie titles I deem acceptable, I admit to watching and enjoying this 50-second clip from Paris by Night of the Living Dead. I know nothing else about the film, but sometimes about a minute of gruesome, sometimes creative, zombie killing is just about right for a Friday afternoon:
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Dec 5 2008 'Zombie Nazis Attacking a Mountain Cabin' Trailer
Zombies and Nazis. They're the two groups we, as a society, have agreed can be killed without further justification than their title, so it's only natural someone would eventually think, "Let's just make zombie Nazis so that we really don't have to feel any remorse in their murder." Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola's Dead Snow isn't the first time the two forces will merge, but it may be the first time
"Ein, zwei, DIE" is used as a tagline, so for that it's won my kudos. Here's the trailer:
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Oct 6 2008 Jesse Eisenberg Visiting 'Zombieland'
Another young actor is joining a Woody Harrelson movie! Earlier came news of Kat Dennings joining Defendor; now it looks like The Squid and the Whale's Jesse Eisenberg is signing on to Zombieland:
[Eisenberg] is in final talks to join Woody Harrelson in Columbia Pictures horror comedy "Zombieland," about a mismatched pair of survivors who find friendship and redemption in a world overrun by zombies.Eisenberg is in negotiations to play Flagstaff, a terrified shut-in whose cowardice makes him an expert at surviving the zombies but who is forced out of his shell to join the band of survivors, which includes Harrelson.
Wait, being a terrified shut-in makes you adept at surviving a zombie apocalypse? If that's the case, then I'm a regular... Fifth Element in Resident Evil? I don't know. Someone who's good at surviving zombie attacks. Because I'm a fearful hermit.
Jan 11 2008 'Diary of the Dead', AKA, 'YouTube Zombies' Trailer
Besides confirming that George Romero and Stan Lee have fused into the same person, this trailer to Diary of the Dead does very little to inspire me to take the time for another romp in zombie town. Neither does the "diary" concept, which seems to be following the Cloverfield mentality of cashing in on the YouTube-headed popularity of shitty handheld recordings. The better movie surely rested in the tale of a teenage zombie coping with cute boys and how her parents don't get her, a story divulged as she lays on her brain-filled stomach, legs dangling playfully off the bed.
Thanks, once again, to Kyle for the tip.
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Jul 30 2007 Resident Evil: Extinction Red-Band Trailer
WARNING: while watching this gore-filled red-band trailer, don't get caught up in the zombie ravaging and start thinking it's going to be something good beyond that. The name "Resident Evil" attached to it guarantees this will be mostly, if not entirely, stupid.
May 29 2007 "Fido" Trailer - Yay or Nay?
..brains at every single meal, why can't we have some guts!"
How could I not watch a trailer with a description like this?:
Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the 50’s, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbor, and rotting zombies deliver the mail. Years ago, the earth passed through a cloud of space dust, causing the dead to rise with a craving for human flesh. A war began, pitting the living against the dead. In the ensuing revolution, a corporation was born: ZomCon, who defeated the legions of undead, and domesticated the zombies, making them our industrial workers, our domestic servants - a productive part of society. ZomCon would like the people of Willard to believe they have everything under control... but do they?
Anyway, check out the trailer over at Yahoo. I can't tell if it's going to be awesome or a bad Shaun of the Dead ripoff. Either way, I'm pretty sure it's based on the true story of the rise of Kinko's.
