28 weeks later

Edd Extraordinaire said:
The DOTD remake was awesome.
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I agree.

Zach Snyder did a great job on the remake, and made it look a lot more modern than the other DOTD film from the 70's.

Land of the Dead was horrible. Perhaps one of the worst films I've ever seen. It's sad to see how far Romero has fallen, because Night of the Living Dead made in 1968 was an incredible film. I remember in college we had to do a semiotic analysis on the film, and it really has a lot of meaning that reflects the time period.

I'm really looking forward to the remake of Day of the Dead. I was never overly impressed with the one that came out in the 80's. The music was horrible, and the acting while fair, makes the movie look so dated.
 
Cant really say if its gonna be good or not by just seeing those Raw images. Will wait until a real 'Trailer' comes out for it. The first one was pretty good,and if second is near that level is should be decent.
The onething is not having the two main characters from first one in it,kindof takes some of the fun out of seeing a sequel...
DoTD was a very good remake,by making the zombies run instead of walk like in original. Makes them more scarey of a zombies,and 28days doin the samething also helped making it more scarey.
 
dpm07 said:

I'm really looking forward to the remake of Day of the Dead. I was never overly impressed with the one that came out in the 80's. The music was horrible, and the acting while fair, makes the movie look so dated.
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I guess you haven't see the trailer for it yet. Prepare to be disappointed extremly. It looks like house of the dead.
 
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19490

Sneak Peek: 28 Weeks Later
Source: Ryan Rotten
March 22, 2007


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Those feverish for the follow-up to Danny Boyle's immensely successful revisionist horror film 28 Days Later will get their cake and eat it too on May 11th when Fox Atomic releases the anticipated, and aptly titled, 28 Weeks Later. This writer was granted "Atomic" clearance to view 28 minutes of the sequel's opening under the pretense that what was shown was still in its rough stages - which it was, clues being the "property of" visual burns and the wall-to-wall temp music, some taken from the soundtrack of its predecessor, to set the tone.

What was seen was nothing short of a promising start as we're introduced to Don, played by Robert Carlyle, a man fortified within a country home living with other "survivors" of the first film's viral "rage" outbreak. You get the sense these survivors have adapted to a new pattern of living (by candlelight, hushed tones) and know the do's and don'ts of avoiding/attracting outside "infected" attention which is readily apparent when an orphan arrives on Don's doorstep thus compromising the shelter. During this time, director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo sustains an optimum sense of heightened frenzy and confusion - via a handheld camera throughout - maintaining that the bloodied, gore-spewing infected are a still a force to be reckoned with.

And with this introduction Fresnadillo will not only rattle the newcomers to the 28 Days Later universe but will have successfully reacquainted its fans to a whole new chapter with a ferocious start. More importantly, he roots his narrative in emotional complexity from the get-go (how the script does so is a spoiler, so just trust us) which is further supported when we meet up with Don 28 weeks after the initial infection. England's Isle of Dogs is being repopulated thanks to the U.S. army - the infected have all but starved to death and it's high time for London to be re-built.

Unlike the first film's haunting visions of isolation and desolate streets, Fresnadillo switches gears offering us images of bittersweet hope - some shots ringing eerily familiar to those that have played on our television post-Hurricane Katrina. Soldiers line the streets. Clean-up bags and burning rubble clog avenues. Pleas for help painted on rooftops from residents long gone are sandblasted away. All of this comes with a palpable air of melancholy. But, amidst the steady flow of progress we meet Don's kids, flown in to be reacquainted with their father much to the chagrin of a cautious military nurse (Rose Byrne) who believes the "new" London isn't ready to be populated by children just yet. Then we get a few introductory moments with Jeremy Renner's Sgt. Doyle, a trigger-happy sniper - there's very little connection with him, although he plays a much larger role, we're told, through the rest of the film.

As quickly as the footage started, it fades out leaving many questions and an eager curiosity for more. With the audience empathy for Don grounded, what terrors are in store for him and his kids?

Fresnadillo, it's obvious, is eager to work on a larger canvas, however, he has easily adopted the visual language of 28 Days Later making the transition from that film to this one an effortless task. Carlyle sells his emotional plight and, thankfully, child actors Mackintosh Muggleton and Imogen Poots are unobtrusive factors (so far). Overall, an affecting, yet unsettling, exploration to Boyle's world...

Keep your eyes peeled for plenty of coverage of this forthcoming chapter once ComingSoon.net launches its horror arm, ShockTillYouDrop.com, in just a matter of weeks!
 
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19535


Idris Elba on 28 Weeks Later
Source: Ryan Rotten
March 24, 2007


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British thespian Idris Elba may be waist-deep in blood and up to his neck in religious phenomena in The Reaping (opening April 5th from Warner Bros./Dark Castle), however, things have gone full-tilt apocalyptic for him in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's 28 Weeks Later. "In ['Weeks'] I don't see anything like what I see in 'The Reaping' at all, my character [Stone] is confined in a bunker - I play a General. He stays there and watches everything from bunkers, so I don't get to see any zombie work, I was a bit mad about that. I stand by the red telephone like, 'Kill 'em all!'" he laughs during a press tour for "Reaping."

Elba adds that he skirted the whole audition process thanks to, "Danny Boyle and Juan Carlos - they made the decision about bringing me in. It was a good part and a very interesting film. I mean, this particular [sub-]genre has been done before but these guys did it really, really well. The difference between ['Weeks'] and ['Days'] is...there isn't much difference, it's just continuing on a really smooth transition from one film to another."

With The Reaping, 28 Weeks Later and the UK vampire television series "Ultraviolet" on his resume now, one could say he's taken an attraction to horror. Alas, that's not the case at all. "My imagination is too vivid, I take it with me. It stays with me a few days in my apartment, freaking me out."

There's a lot more on The Reaping coming your way. Also, look for ComingSoon.net's all-horror site, ShockTillYouDrop.com, in the next few weeks!
 
and i'm saying it again :
fuc*ing awesome !!

(BTW, the song is "Shrinking universe" by Muse)
 
****in niiice find :word:

Can't wait to see this film. :up:
 
I think this goes against the spirit of the first film, but I'll still give it a shot. Might be decent.
 
Holy smokes, this looks awesome! I loved the first one, i'm going to make sure I check out the sequel!
 
Loved this trailer! For once I'm actually really excited for this zombie movie... This summer is going to be insane. One week after Spidey we got this?!
 
Okay, now I'm unsure as to the new way the virus spreads. At first I thought it would evolve into an airborne virus, but after seeing the trailer, I'm not sure that's the case.

That said, it looks very good. Although since Catherine McCormack is billed as part of the main cast, she looks like she's the woman was was exposed to the virus but didn't become one of the Infected (that closeup shot of the woman's bruised face looks like her). I guess she plays one of the scientists, though.

Come on, even though Danny Boyle and Alex Garland aren't directing and scripting the sequel, most of the crew from 28 Days Later has come back nonetheless, such as composer John Murphy, editor Chris Gill, and production designer Mark Tildesley. So that's a nice bit of maintaining the feel of the first film, although the sequel is shot on actual film and not digital video.
 
I don't know why I do it to my self,I know I won't be able to sleep for days after seeing this.
I was quite twitchy after watching the first one. :csad:
 
Flexo said:
I think this goes against the spirit of the first film, but I'll still give it a shot. Might be decent.
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Yeah I have to agree with you there, Flexo.

It looks like they've gone all big budget Hollywood survival horror on us. Watching the trailer, I kept expecting to see an appearance of Milla Jovovich in combat boots. :confused::up:
 
BTW, what's the name of the actress who plays Robert Carlyle's daughter ?
 
loved DOTD remake. bought the DVD and will support Snyder if he sneezes...

this looks like some good fun too. Boyle is still involved so some quality is going to be maintained...i will see this 28 weeks later.
 
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