Wow, its been a long time since this page has been looked at.
Do I still want to make a zombie movie? Hell yeah. Is it likely to happen? Shit no. Is that going to stop me crapping on about it? No such luck.
However........
I have recently got to wondering is a movie necessarily the right form for this project to take? I'm not saying its not; I definitely still want to make a zombie movie..... but the question needs to be asked. I work in the book manufacturing industry, and have been suffering from endless reprints of the bloody Stephanie Meyer books.... ie vampire stories aimed at teenage girls. Now vampire stories is not the primary goal here, this is supposed to be about zombies. Although I think I have suggested (hey, we are talking 2 1/2 years ago here) that zombies and vampires could be combined in the same story, so it is not too far from relevance. I also doubt that teenage girls are ever likely to be my target audience. Teenage boys, on the other hand..... well there is a market I can relate to! (similar mentality, I know - no need to wait for others to give me shit, I'll just do it myself) Gee I get distracted easily. Where was I? Oh yeah. Stephanie Bloody Meyer. It is so bad at work that we have renamed Murphy's Law as Stephanie Murphy's Law. Distracted again. Sorry. Actually no I'm not sorry. If you are so desperate as to be reading this you can put up with my tangential tantrums. Anyway, the point is, writing a novel would be much easier than making a movie. For a start, you have to write the movie first, and the process of doing that I reckon would be almost half of what would be involved in just doing the novel - but then making a movie of it adds in all these other artistic elements that I don't actually know enough about. I'm not saying that I couldn't pull it together. Just that I could DEFINITELY write the novel - there is absolutely nothing stopping me from doing that.... no need to get a budget, no cinematic technology to learn, no having to communicate with people who know what they are doing with a video camera (for some reason those people scare me - possibly just a sense of artistic inadequacy). Just me and my keyboard. Nothing stopping me. Once it is written.... well, I have contacts through work who may be able to help with the next step (even if the next step is self-publishing - Griffin Digital here we come!). Artistically the idea has merit at the moment as well. The book market is littered with Meyer rip-offs at the moment. Darren Shan has been around for a while with his demonic-style books (well, that is what I guess they are about based on the covers - yes, I know that is no basis for a judgement!). The time might be right to expose all those teenage boys who grew up on Harry Potter - and aren't really interested in Twilight etc - to the joys of a good zombie horde. And face it, if you seel enough copies of a book, someone will make it into a movie for you anyway..... and even if no-one else ever reads the novel, I could always just use that as the basis for the movie, and go back to the original goal.
Dammit. Now I have to write the novel. No excuses. Nothing to stop me. Hmmmmmm.
Do I still want to make a zombie movie? Hell yeah. Is it likely to happen? Shit no. Is that going to stop me crapping on about it? No such luck.
However........
I have recently got to wondering is a movie necessarily the right form for this project to take? I'm not saying its not; I definitely still want to make a zombie movie..... but the question needs to be asked. I work in the book manufacturing industry, and have been suffering from endless reprints of the bloody Stephanie Meyer books.... ie vampire stories aimed at teenage girls. Now vampire stories is not the primary goal here, this is supposed to be about zombies. Although I think I have suggested (hey, we are talking 2 1/2 years ago here) that zombies and vampires could be combined in the same story, so it is not too far from relevance. I also doubt that teenage girls are ever likely to be my target audience. Teenage boys, on the other hand..... well there is a market I can relate to! (similar mentality, I know - no need to wait for others to give me shit, I'll just do it myself) Gee I get distracted easily. Where was I? Oh yeah. Stephanie Bloody Meyer. It is so bad at work that we have renamed Murphy's Law as Stephanie Murphy's Law. Distracted again. Sorry. Actually no I'm not sorry. If you are so desperate as to be reading this you can put up with my tangential tantrums. Anyway, the point is, writing a novel would be much easier than making a movie. For a start, you have to write the movie first, and the process of doing that I reckon would be almost half of what would be involved in just doing the novel - but then making a movie of it adds in all these other artistic elements that I don't actually know enough about. I'm not saying that I couldn't pull it together. Just that I could DEFINITELY write the novel - there is absolutely nothing stopping me from doing that.... no need to get a budget, no cinematic technology to learn, no having to communicate with people who know what they are doing with a video camera (for some reason those people scare me - possibly just a sense of artistic inadequacy). Just me and my keyboard. Nothing stopping me. Once it is written.... well, I have contacts through work who may be able to help with the next step (even if the next step is self-publishing - Griffin Digital here we come!). Artistically the idea has merit at the moment as well. The book market is littered with Meyer rip-offs at the moment. Darren Shan has been around for a while with his demonic-style books (well, that is what I guess they are about based on the covers - yes, I know that is no basis for a judgement!). The time might be right to expose all those teenage boys who grew up on Harry Potter - and aren't really interested in Twilight etc - to the joys of a good zombie horde. And face it, if you seel enough copies of a book, someone will make it into a movie for you anyway..... and even if no-one else ever reads the novel, I could always just use that as the basis for the movie, and go back to the original goal.
Dammit. Now I have to write the novel. No excuses. Nothing to stop me. Hmmmmmm.
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