MTV's Dawn of the Dead spinoff

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The last time George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead went out for a reworking, pretty much the entire blogosphere was skeptic. Luckily, once Zack Snyder’s remake finally came out, most of us were satisfied that while he hadn’t ousted the original from it’s Best Zombie Movie Ever pedestal, he’d actually served up a film well worth caring about and taking seriously. Snyder even received great acclaim for the opening movement first ten minutes or so of the picture. Some controversy remained, however, primarily over Snyder’s decision to have his undead be fast runners, seemingly ignoring all common sense about what kinds of stress and strain a rotting corpse could take.

Now, MTV are planning to create a spin-off TV series licensed from the Romero film. Will they be going for the fast or slow zombies?

According to Bloody Disgusting’s scoop, they’re going for a mix. The freshly dead can run and the more atrophied examples will shamble? There’s no indication, but it seems like a smart enough conceit.

In fact, there’s very little known about the project at all at the moment. Bloody Disgusting are promising to tell us more once this actually a done deal.

MTV have curiously made some big strides into the horror arena of late with an upcoming Teenwolf series and their recent My Super-Psycho Sweet 16, a Halloween special TV movie from Jacob Gentry, one of the directors of The Signal.

Could MTV have found their new niche?

[illdojo]

Nope...

Just nope.

[neverending]

And what happened to their remake of Rocky Horror?

[Straker]

Originally Posted by neverending

And what happened to their remake of Rocky Horror?

It died. Think there was plenty of people against it and they decided not to go ahead with it in the end....

http://www.thewrap.com/article/mtv-n...or-remake_7197

[neverending]

Originally Posted by Straker

It died. Think there was plenty of people against it and they decided not to go ahead with it in the end....

http://www.thewrap.com/article/mtv-n...or-remake_7197

Well, thank goodness for that.

[trx1]

no, there was aeon flux the maxx, and a few other cool animes out

[bwind22]

I'll watch it, mainly because a zombie series hasn't really been done yet and it has potential to be cool. On the other hand, it has potential to suck ass and if that's the case, I probably won't end up watching more than the first episode or two. Any word on a premiere date?

[kweandee]

I'm hopeful because I love zombies and it would be cool to watch but I'm doubtful as far as it being any good because MTV's doing it :rolleyes:

[WilsonTheWriter]

I can't see an MTV series being a particularly good idea. I also think when it comes to Dawn of the Dead they should stick to slow moving zombies. If they want to make it successful they need to keep it as close to the original as possible but with a higher budget better effects and a lot more gorey. I just don't think MTV are up to the task. It will be some watered down, mainstream effort looking to appeal to a wider audience than the original Dawn of the Dead which will ultimately alienate fans of the original.