Feast of the Dead is my original take on the Zombie genre. It mixes Zombies with Sci Fi, and I really trying to create here an out-of-the-box Zombie movie.
About a year ago I have created “Lazarus Orbit”, which was an original alien invention movie, and I’m trying to do the same with “FOTD” (Feast of the Dead).
The idea for FOTD came from Dan Brown’s new novel, “Inferno”. The idea of Human overpopulation is really scary. For thousands of years humanity had to fight to survive. It took us over tens of thousands of years to stabilize our population, and only in the 19th century we finally were able to have 1 billion humans on Earth.
In less than 200 years, our population jumped from 1 billion to over 7 billion. It is estimated that the world’s population may rise to 16 billion by 2100.
Overpopulation actually means that it is very possible that in some point in the future (in the very close future) we may face a very scary reality: Water management problems, deforestation and habitat destruction, Soil problems, overhunting, overfishing, effects of introduced species on native species, overpopulation, Increased per-capita impact of people and much more.
Here are the Teaser and the first Trailer for FOTD:
Teaser:
Trailer 1:
The prologue:
In my movie, the UN decides that we have to find a solution to this scary future.
After countless meetings, the leaders of the world are lost. There is no way to stop what is coming. But, one scientist gives them the solution, and it’s even scarier.
This scientist said the thing everyone else was afraid to say: the only way to save the human race is to reduce our population.
And so, a new International government rises, and the UN had become “The Federation”. However not all the leaders are part of this new world order, leaders of “hostile” countries are not included in the Federation.
In less than 3 years, a group of scientists of the Federation create a special virus, a virus that will attack and kill humans. In a secret meeting, the leaders of the Federation decide which countries will be attacked by the virus. Africa becomes a main target, since it has a Population of over a billion people. So goes to any enemy country to the Federation.
However after a wail, the leaders understand that it’s not enough, and the leaders agree to also attack their own countries, only this attack will be minimal.
But something goes horribly wrong. As the attack begins, something happens. For some reason some people who have died from the virus come back to life minutes after their death, and then they transform into Zombies. These Zombies begin to attack the living, and start turning others. In just few weeks there are billions of Zombies on Earth.
No one knows way the outbreak happened, but they suspect that the virus affected humans with diseases very differently. And because of these diseases, the virus mutated, and instead of just killing, it has altered the DNA of the humans it attacked, and therefore they transform into Zombies.
The Zombies didn’t waste any time, the Federation wasn’t ready for anything like this, and billions of people were infected, and even more were turned. The Federation was able to fight back eventually, and after few years the Federation was able to build few safe zones around the world. But with over 6 billion Zombies in the world, no safe zone will stay safe for long.
The Zombies don’t need to sleep or rest, and they move in herds, some of these herds consist of millions of Zombies. The Zombies can move really fast when they sense humans near them, and they won’t stop until they feast.
The Federation has created a special army of soldiers. These soldiers are injected with special drugs that enhance their senses and their buddies.
These “super soldiers” have only 3 tasks: find survivors, find supplies and kill every Zombie they meet.
But while the Federation was fighting the Zombie army, some people found out that the Federation was responsible to all of this, and a third world war has begun.
After 4 years of fighting, and millions of people dead, the remaining humans remembered who the real enemies are. Every human who have died had come back to life as a Zombie, even if he didn’t got bit. With even more Zombies, the humans have united to fight the Zombies. But the battle isn’t easy, and some even see it hopeless.
Feast of the Dead follows the story of few characters. A unit of super soldiers, the government of what is left from the human race and a group of scientists who try to find a way to stop the Zombie epidemic, and find a way to immune the humans that are still alive.
The characters:
Jeremy Renner
Renner plays a soldier who leads a unit spiel soldiers. Unlike others in his team, Renner isn’t a super soldier, and he must prove himself in the battlefield. Renner still has hope, and hopes for a better world, and believes that one day the Zombies will be defeated and society will rise again. Renner is married to Jessica Chastain’s character. They had a son, but he was turned into a Zombie, and Renner had to put him down.
Taylor Kitsch
Kitsch is playing a famous super solider. He is known to be the best Zombie killer. Kitsch has devoted his life to killing every Zombie in his way. Because of all the special drugs he has taken, he is starting to lose his humanity, and that scares him. He and Renner are the two main characters of the movie, and they and two sides of the same coin.
Idris Elba
An army General who has his problems with the Federation. He and Renner go way back. Elba fears from what the Federation is doing to the human race. He hates the fact that the Federation is turning people into super soldiers, who lose their humanity. He joins Gary Oldman’s character to build a new and better government. Elba used to be a soldier in the field, but now he is the leader of the army.
Jessica Chastain
A scientist and the wife of Jeremy Renner’s character. After her son became a Zombie (and then was killed by his own father), Chastain has become a shell of her former self. She is one of the brightest minds in the Federation, and she tries to find a way to immune the humans that are still alive. She blames her husband for what has happened to their son, but she also thanks god from preventing from her son to live in this hopeless world.
Gary Oldman
A rebel and freedom fighter who fights the Federation. Oldman leads a rebel army that tries to over throne the government and stop their experience on humans. Oldman isn’t a hero, and he is more of a anti-hero.
Adrianne Palicki
A soldier who is part of Renner’s unit. Like Renner, she is not a super soldier, but she has a thing with Kitsch. She is hell-bent on killing Zombies, after losing her family. Because she is a woman, she feels that she most prove herself, and she is a bad-ass in combat. During her mission she tries to help Kitsch find his human side again.
Ben Foster
A super solider who joins Renner’s unit. Unlike Kitsch, Foster has lost his humanity and his mind. Because of the drugs he was injected with, he is barley has any feelings, and he is like a Zombie killing machine. But because of his lack of humanity, Foster becomes dangerous and threatens the unit.
Cillian Murphy
A scientist who works with Chastain. Murphy is the head of the team that turns man and woman into super soldiers. Murphy runs out to be a psychopath that lets the Zombies inside the safe zone. Murphy is part of a religious colt, who believes that the Zombies are a sign from God, and humanity must die.
Mark Strong
The president of the Federation. He tries to do whatever he can to save his people from the Zombies, and the same time he tries to protect his government from the rebels. President Strong isn’t a villain, he just trying to keep it all together. The hopeless reality makes he do some bad things, but he believes that what he is doing will save the human race, even if it means turnings humans into mindless soldiers and even if it means killing the rebels.
The Armor:
Something cool that I wanted to add is the armor. Because this movie has science fiction elements, I have decided that the soldiers in the movie will wear a special kind of armor. The armor’s job is to protect the skin of the humans from the Zombies. The armor is made of a thick materiel that can stop bites and scratches. It’s not bullet-proof, but it can also be useful in a fire fight. The armor also has a helmet that protects the face and the head.
The next Trailer of Feast of the Dead is coming this Sunday...