NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Re-Imagining Will be Totally CG Motion Capture

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Re-Imagining Will be Totally CG Motion Capture

"Night Of The Living Dead" re-imagining will be completely stop-motion CG and aimed to look as close to a graphic novel as possible in style.

By BJD - Apr 19, 2012 04:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Horror
Source: SFX



In what sounds like an attempt to spread the demographic net as wide as possible by producers, the new "Night Of The Living Dead" movie will be completely animated and look like moving artwork from a comic book.

To me this doesn't sound too experimental. It sounds like the end result will be very similar to rotoscoping: remember "A Scanner Darkly"?

New production company Meyers Media Group has announced that it has picked up international rights to writer/director Zebediah De Soto’s Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D from Simon West Productions. Simon West (director of Con Air) will produce alongside Jib Polhemus (The Mechanic), Gus Malliarodakis and Matty Mangone-Miranda.

In the film, New York lies in ruin when zombies have overtaken the city. For the few people left alive there is only one dream – survival. That includes Ben (Tony Todd) and Barbra (Danielle Harris), two survivors who find themselves trapped and fighting to escape the hordes of undead that walk the streets.

Shot completely in a CG environment using stereoscopic 3D, using next gen facial capture technology, the film aims to look like a marriage between a graphic novel and modern animation.
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ralfinader
ralfinader - 4/19/2012, 6:54 AM
Is this another remake? And Stranger X is absolutely correct on that count.

And @ BJD yes, sounds like A Scanner Darkly. Wasn't that also how they were planning on filming the JLA movie before it fell apart because of the writer's strike?
ZombieOverEasy
ZombieOverEasy - 4/19/2012, 7:29 AM
Sooo, it's going to take place in New York City instead of the countryside? Why not create something new? I don't get it. If they're going to do a remake and change everything, why not give it an original title? It's like this Evil Dead remake, why call it Evil Dead if you're taking away everything that made Evil Dead what it was?
ralfinader
ralfinader - 4/19/2012, 7:32 AM
@monkeyballs3 (because the first two monkeyballs were taken? jk) There was a JLA movie in the works, and it was going to be filmed like that Zemeckas Christmas train movie, or A Scanner Darkly, they even had people cast as Bats and Supes, but the project disentegrated when the writers strike shut down Hollywood and TV a few years back. (cant remember the year, but Heroes was still on the air, and it was the season of Smallville with that piss poor Doomsday).
ralfinader
ralfinader - 4/19/2012, 7:35 AM
And I swear there was a comment from a poster named Stranger X that said: "Horror is better with practical effects" before I posted! I am not crazY!!!
StrangerX
StrangerX - 4/19/2012, 7:43 AM
I was saying practical effects are better, than I deleted my comments by mistake.
MisterBabadook
MisterBabadook - 4/19/2012, 8:03 AM


I love Linklater's Rotoscope films. Need more by that guy.
preacher
preacher - 4/19/2012, 8:08 AM
So THIS one's going to have Tony Todd in it starring as Ben...AGAIN? He played Ben in the 1990 Tom Savini directed remake.
StrangerX
StrangerX - 4/19/2012, 8:37 AM
watched Monster Man yesterday, and couldn't help but laugh when they busted up the computer and set it on fire to represent how much CGI sucks for monster films.
Stumblin
Stumblin - 4/19/2012, 8:46 AM
What about "Walking Life?" Better movie than "A Scanner Darkly." Though I hope they don't do that because I could only handle so much of it, [frick]s with my eyes.
dracolich666
dracolich666 - 4/19/2012, 9:55 AM
tony todd lol he hasn't had a good part since his star trek days
Radsavage1
Radsavage1 - 4/19/2012, 10:42 AM
This is really old news.
MisterBabadook
MisterBabadook - 4/19/2012, 12:29 PM
A Scanner Darkly is far easier on the eyes than the erratic Waking Life.
LordHuck
LordHuck - 4/19/2012, 1:16 PM
jimoakley666

what the hell are you talking about?
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