Zombie dawn in the zombie trilogy

Zach Sneijder

dramatist

George A. Romero, Georgia. Romero ... (1978 script)

James gunn ... (Screen Play) Producer.

Marka Abraham ... Producer.

Armenia Bernstein ... Executive producer.

Thomas. Bliss ... Executive producer.

Dennis. Jones ... Executive producer.

Michael de. Messina ... Co-producer.

Eric Newman ... A terrible plague swept across America. After the whole world was attacked by the plague, millions of bodies were infected and turned into vampire. Dead or alive, as long as a zombie sucks blood, it will immediately become a zombie. Soon, the whole city became a zombie city, and human beings suffered unprecedented looting. Only a few people survived the double disaster of plague and zombies, including a young nurse Anna (sarah polley) and a police officer Kenneth (Vin Ramses). They hid in a shopping mall in a medium-sized city in Washington state and carefully protected themselves from zombies by using hidden containers.

However, zombies still have some memories of human beings. People like to go to supermarkets and may smell their blood circulation. More and more zombies came to the shopping center, and the few who survived could hardly hide in the end. They must find a way to get out of here and find a really safe place. At the same time, they have to overcome their own contradictions and unite against zombie attacks.

Led by nurse Anna and police officer Kenneth, the survivors plan to go to an island that may not be attacked by plague and zombies in order to survive.

However, to get there, they have to pass through thousands of hungry zombies. Then several people were attacked by zombies and fell down. There are fewer and fewer people left, but zombies gather more and more, watching them hopelessly drown in the zombie pile.

About the director

Zack Snyder took his first step to the film industry with his debut novel Dawn of the Zombies. Prior to this, he was praised as the most talented commercial director in Britain by the British magazine Communication Arts. Schneider's advertising works are famous for their wide-screen movie style. In his early years, he studied painting in Heathcliff, London, and then entered the art center of the world-famous Pasadena School of Design for further study. Whether it is an epic advertisement of Land Rover SUV in Tunisia or a touching sketch with Robert De Niro in the streets of new york, Schneider has demonstrated his outstanding narrative skills and sense of space. As a commercial TV director, Snyder has traveled to almost every corner of the world, from the skeleton coast of Namibia to the Arctic ice sheet. As a director and photographer, he went to the Costa Rican rainforest to shoot advertisements for Compuware, Alaska also left his footprints for Audi and Chrysler Jeep, and China also appeared in his Budweiser beer advertisement. In addition, Schneider is also good at sports, and has made promotional videos for Nike and Reebok featuring Michael Jordan and tennis star Navratilova Martina.

As you can imagine, Snyder has won numerous awards, including two Creole International Advertising Awards and the Golden Lion Award at Cannes Advertising Festival.

About actors

Sarah polley, the heroine, was born in a Canadian drama family and is now 25 years old. She first appeared on the big screen at the age of six on a magical Christmas day. /kloc-at the age of 0/5, Polly began to rebel, not only dropping out of school to join the left-wing political movement, but even leaving home to rent a house and live alone. It was not until Polly came to the United States that her life began to stabilize, and with her acting skills and youth, she won the recognition of some fans on the screen. It's a pity that sarah polley is still as restless as a girlhood. First, she turned down the invitation of big studios, then turned down some blockbusters and insisted on playing roles in some independent films, from elderly students and homeless young people to sexy sluts. Although only in her early twenties, Polly has appeared in more than 40 films and TV works, including 1997, Sweet Afterlife, which made her known to American audiences. In this movie, she plays a girl in her sixties who was abused by her father and survived the school bus accident.

Sarah Polly has been active in independent films. Her latest performance is Life Without Me, which was widely acclaimed last year. Other films are made independently, so they are rarely known to fans. In Zombie Dawn, about vampires and zombies, Polly plays a nurse who is chased by zombies. After experiencing the roles of abuse and slut, she will play a frightened sexy girl in this film.

Remake classic

Dawn of the Zombies is a remake of the movie of the same name by 1979, which is the middle part of George A. Romero's "Death Trilogy" about vampires. The horror film series begins with night of the living dead of 1968. This film is the first of its kind in America. Director Romero created a brand-new shape and life for the "zombie" in the original work (referring to the corpse awakened by voodoo witchcraft), and inspired many such excellent works.

As a huge fan of horror movies and zombie movies, producer Eric Newman recalled: "I have loved this type of movies since I was a child, and Dawn of the Zombies (1978) is my favorite. Although similar zombie movies are not uncommon, Zombie Dawn is always the most outstanding one. I feel that this type of film has not received the attention it deserves. " Newman wants to bring zombie movies into the 2 1 century and present a brand-new look with excellent scripts, actors and productions. He said: "Zombie legends have a history of thousands of years. They are almost like vampires. For me, zombies are the perfect villains. They are fearless, tireless and everywhere. Their goal is only one, and that is to track, kill and eat you. " Newman's passion for zombies quickly caught the attention of producer MarcAbraham, and Newman was introduced to Richard Poop. Rubinstein, the executive director of NewAmsterdamEntertainment, was the producer of the 1978 version of dawn of the dead, and held the rights to remake the film.

Dawn of the Dead (1978) was not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America, but was released by a small independent film distributor, although the shooting budget was only $500,000.

Yuan, but its total box office in the United States exceeded $20 million, and the global box office reached 55 million, which won a lot of praise. In the following years, many people wanted to remake the film, but Abraham politely refused until he met Newman. Rubinstein said: "I think Romero's films are successful in business and criticism because the creation, shooting, production and distribution of films are all done outside the mainstream production system." I'm worried that the producers will tamper with Newman's works during the production process. Finally, I found that marc abraham has always been very loyal to the integrity of the film, so I will agree. ""This is a re-conception of the classics, not a simple repetition. There are many new remakes. I like Kaufman's Alien, Carpenter's Strange Form and Conan Berg's Fly. These are great movies, and they didn't destroy the original works. We hope that through this film, zombie movies can attract new audiences, "Newman said.

Abraham added: "Dawn of Death (1978) is obviously a cult film and a milestone in horror movies. We believe that we will present the same thrilling movies to young audiences, and we will apply the advanced technology that was popular at that time. " Rubinstein also agreed to increase investment in shooting and use the most advanced shooting techniques and special effects makeup. The only problem is how to attract the current audience with original elements. As a result, the task of adapting the script fell on another zombie fan, JamesGunn, who enthusiastically said, "I am a die-hard fan of the original." For me, "dawn of the dead" is the first horror film I have ever seen that focuses on social issues. It is extremely scary. In addition, I have been writing comedy scripts for several years, and this time I want people to change from laughter to exclamation. "

Producers, screenwriters and publishers are all in place, and the right director has become an urgent problem to be solved. At this time, Zack Snyder was looking for a film suitable for his debut. When he was young, he was also a horror movie fan. He thinks it is the most appropriate choice to start his career with zombie movies. Schneider respected Dawn of the Zombies from 65438 to 0978, and all this was not only reflected in the imitation of style, but also two actors and makeup artists who had appeared in the original work appeared in this film.

About shooting

Producer Newman said that Schneider's enthusiasm infected everyone, and he always left a deep impression on producer Abraham, because Schneider personally completed all the storyboards of the film. Schneider said: "I don't have the idea of remake, because remake is to take the original script and remake it step by step." What we have to do is reinterpret, which is a process of re-creation. We don't want to compare this movie with other movies. This is our version. "

Sarah polley, a talented Canadian woman who has been active in the independent film industry, is very willing to play Anna, the soul of the film, and even director Schneider is surprised by her joining. Polly not only loves the creativity of the creative staff, but also admits that she has been fascinated by zombies since she was a child. All ideas come from curiosity about death. If death is not eternal, if the body is still alive, Polly also fell in love with Romero's movies. This movie is Polly's first action movie, but she didn't expect the physical requirements of filming. She said, "I started running a week after filming. It seems that all I need to do is running, which has never happened in my filming experience."

Since it is necessary to re-conceive, the zombies in the film must be re-designed, because the ferocious face 30 years ago is no longer a deterrent today. In 2004, zombies were agile and supernatural. They have a keen sense of smell for blood like sharks and act in groups like wolves. Once a person is killed by a zombie, he will instantly become a new zombie, so the number of zombies increases rapidly.

In order to create a lifelike vampire, the crew invited DavidLeRoyAnderson, a special effects makeup artist who won two Oscars for Professor Nut and Men in Black. It took Anderson four weeks to complete the design and form a team. In order to truly show the appearance of death and decay, Anderson studied a large number of forensic books, crime scene photos and traditional zombie legends, and got a detailed understanding of the characteristics of human body's decay in days, weeks and months after death, and divided the decomposition of zombies into three stages: the first stage was very pale and there was a lot of fresh blood; The second stage is that the wound is moist, the skin begins to break, and there are many ecchymoses, mostly turquoise; The third stage is the most serious, the bones begin to show, the wound has dried up, and the skin has completely peeled off and turned oily black. According to these three stages, blood also has corresponding differences. For example, in the first stage, blood has a standard red color and fluidity, while in the second stage, blood tends to be brown and sticky, and in the third stage, it becomes black and oily.

It is not difficult to portray zombies as scary. Anderson's team tried every means. He said: "After the original film came out, many new technologies and

New materials emerge one after another. Although the frightening elements are the same, we can do it more realistically now. "Anderson's team will dress up hundreds of extras as zombies. When shooting some big scenes, Anderson's 55 staff will all go into battle. By the end of filming, Anderson's team will have created 3000 zombies. When filming "dawn of the dead" on 1978, Romero led the film crew to shoot at Pittsburgh Shopping Center from midnight to 6 am every day. In the filming of this film, the crew discovered the ThornHillSquare shopping center which is about to be demolished in Toronto, Canada, and it has a history of 20 years. Production designer AndrewNeskoromny has only eight weeks to transform the shopping center into what the movie needs. The 45,000-square-foot building had to be completely remodeled, even the steel beams were exposed.

Highlights: Ken Foley, Scott. Reiniger and Thomas savigny, who starred in this film, both appeared in Dawn of Death in 1978. According to director Zack Snyder, Starbucks coffee shop refused to appear in this film. Most of the music in the film was selected by director Zack Snyder. The scene of Anna, Andre, Norma and Monica in the coffee shop in HallowedGrounds was rewritten, and the modified script intentionally added the actress Kim Varille, because director Zack Snyder and producer Eric Newman liked her performance very much.

However, the name of the role played by Kim Varille was never mentioned in the film. Most regrettably, many of her dialogue scenes were later deleted. The editor of the Canadian magazine Rue-Morgue once played a zombie in the film. In this film, there are also WGON helicopters transporting the survivors of Dawn of Death from 65438 to 0978. Some trucks outside the shopping center belong to BP Transportation Company, which once lent them to the producer of 1978 Dawn of Death. The shopping center in the film has a clothing store called GaylenRoss. Galen Ross once played Fran in dawn of the dead (1978). British MTV host AlexZane also made a guest appearance as a zombie in this film. When the zombies entered the mall and ran across the screen, he played a zombie in a bright white plaid shirt. When Anna sewed up Kenneth's wound, the director invited a real nurse in the close-up. The nurse misunderstood the director's request and accidentally stabbed Ving Rhames's skin, but Remus didn't say a word until the filming ended. The director thought the bleeding effect was real. At the beginning of the film, before the "Special Report" was broadcast on TV, the director Zack Snyder shot an advertisement for Subaru WRX. In the 10 minute aerial photo at the beginning of the film, when Ana drives off the road, a truck can be found rushing into the gas station. This scene echoes the scene in night of the living dead (1968), when Ben was sitting in the car and heard on the radio that a truck crashed into a gas station. The word "zombie" has never appeared in the film. Most of the scary faces of zombies in the film are designed according to real forensic photos.

This film was the first film that was not edited 10 minutes before it was broadcast on Internet TV, only five days before the national release date, except in the United States.

In addition to video playback, Channel 4 in the UK also made a special introduction. The premiere of this film was held in Beverly Shopping Center in Los Angeles, and the actors also attended. KyleCooper, the title designer, used real human blood when designing the title and title. The two mutilated zombies in the film are really played by disabled people. Due to the box office fiasco of "House of the Dead", Universal Pictures obviously cut the shooting cost of the film for fear that zombie movies would lose the market. The film's response was unexpected. Although the shooting cost was only $28 million, the film earned its cost after three days of release. George A. Romero once claimed that the film left a deep impression on him. This film is 40 minutes shorter than the director's edited version of George A. Romero. A (movie) fiasco

The story of the film takes place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, but the ambulance at the beginning of the film hangs pictures of Ontario, Canada.

In the picture of Anna and Louis taking a bath together, Anna's hair is waist-length, and it is obvious that she used body double.

When Andre and Michael went out to save the people in the truck, Michael shot the zombie in the abdomen, but hit the head.