Need help on a script

[Mr. Movies]

I'm working on an epic action zombie comedy disaster flick. The premise: A hostile group of aliens (actually levitating green bagels) have come to claim our planet. How, you ask? Using a secret device, they raise thousands upon thousands of zombies to raise some fuckin' hell! It's kind of a cross between Plan 9(Storyline, not actual movie), 1941(Great, Underrated Movie) times about 300, Mars Attacks, and also works as a parody on Bush, Political Correctness, Religion, and pretty much everything in general.

Now, to get to the point: Does anybody have zombie related questions that haven't been answered in any movie? Please tell me, and I'll write them into the script.

[Bonham]

Why don't they attack each other / animals?
Why do they devour some people whole, while merely biting others?
Can they starve?
How many zombies would it take to defeat a ninja? (personal question:D )

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by Bonham
How many zombies would it take to defeat a ninja? (personal question:D ) Or to screw in a lightbulb?

Anyway, what about . . . how the hell do they digest?

[chasingbanky]

Originally posted by X-Nightcrawler
Or to screw in a lightbulb?

Anyway, what about . . . how the hell do they digest?

Or more directly.... Are zombies just walking around shitting themself all day?

[adamjohnson]

Can they reproduce?

I'd love to see 2 zombies fall in love and do it.

[Pestilence]

Obviously haven't seen Braindead then, Adam.....

...or "Dead Alive" as you guys in the States call it.

[aixela]

how do the zombies that are almost skeletons get up and walk around without falling about

and if zombies are after brains, why do they attack blondes? just kidding-no offense meant

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by aixela
and if zombies are after brains, why do they attack blondes? just kidding-no offense meant Actually hilarious.

[TheDeadWalk]

How do they know the difference between humans and other zombies?

Shaun of the Dead slightly cracked into this, but I thought it was a really bogus thing to do in the film.

[TheDeadWalk]

Originally posted by X-Nightcrawler
Or to screw in a lightbulb?

Anyway, what about . . . how the hell do they digest?

I would believe that they don't digest, since Day showed that they don't eat out of a hunger and they don't make use of their organs.

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by TheDeadWalk
I would believe that they don't digest, since Day showed that they don't eat out of a hunger and they don't make use of their organs. You're right, actually. I think Return Of The Living Dead also had a zombie explaining something like that (no, it's not as cheesy as it sounds, it's a great scene).

[Trigger_Street]

These zombie type films are lame. Unless you have an extrodinary story or something unique that Hollywood has never seen before, you'll stay idle for a long long time if you wish to ever break into Hollywood.

Everyone can write a script. Make yours great and unique.

[Pestilence]

Whoa, great input there, Trigger_Street!

I highly doubt the OP is going to attempt to use this screenplay to break Hollywood, but it sure as hell sounds funny.

And to make such a sweeping statement, that all zombie films are lame, is personally offensive and nothing but ignorant.

In response to your final sentance, I sure as hell think representing Aliens as levitating green bagels is unique!

[adamjohnson]

Originally posted by Trigger_Street
These zombie type films are lame. Unless you have an extrodinary story or something unique that Hollywood has never seen before, you'll stay idle for a long long time if you wish to ever break into Hollywood.

Everyone can write a script. Make yours great and unique.

Actually, I (and hordes of others) highly regard zombie films as some of the most creative on the market. To take a thing (zombies, who are emotionless, do not speak, and have no characvter development whatsoever) and churn out movie after movie after movie, and keep seeing new things, is amazing.

I mean, come on.

http://www.trashcity.org/BLITZ/BLIT1543.JPG

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006A9FKU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://library.sdsmt.edu/friendsvideos/28%20Days%20Later%20Front.jpg

http://www.emptyworld.info/images/film/film_night_of_the_comet.jpg

http://www.thezreview.co.uk/posters/posterimages/u/undead2.jpg

[CHANCE]

How about using "the zombie survival guide"?

it debunks a lott of zombie myth with science...(zombie reproduction,digesting,speed ,strenght,etc..)
why not debunk the science in the book with your own vision?

Perhaps refering to it...example.."yeah I read that book, it's full of shit, you shoot a walker in the head...and the fucker keeps on walkin!"

something to that effect....would be fun to see another zom/com

[Runawayrunaway!]

This sounds like an idea I was working on when I was 14. I was really into cult horror like Evil Dead and other stuff, and I decided that I should make a movie involving zombies that turn into werewolves whenever it's a full moon, space-vampire-assassins, aliens who have bizarre hamburger fixations, commando squads, and the world's unlikiest buddy cop pairing of King Kong and Jesus. Also it would be told in a series of chapters that loop back on each other, each ending with a non-sequitor that would be explained by the next chapter. I called it The Super Duper Uber Mega Movie, because it had pretty much everything a movie needs. Your idea is reminiscent in tone, though I think it'd be very hard to pull off the bagel idea.

[Jix]

Zombie movies have a tendency to be either cult classics or total crap. All depends how seriously you take on the project.

There's basically two ways you can look at zombies and why they "happen".

Paranormal, i.e., no more room in hell, godly pestilence or some bogus Magical/Mystical reason.

Scientific, like a disease that makes the body continue to produce electricity after it dies and which is transmitted through fluids, like saliva. Where this disease comes from, well, that's up to you. You can merge the scientific with the paranormal and supernatural here, like alien microbes, ancient plague, angelic disease, etc.

I prefer the scientific explanation. More scary. Anything that's plausible is scarier, imo. Resident Evil had the right idea but they messed the story up. I liked how they explained that zombie-ism is like rabies, and makes hosts revert to the most primitive impulses to survive. Eating is one of them. Why sex isn't part of that? Probably cause it would be pretty gross to see a zombie fuck something. Fuck you then eat you? Why not.

EDIT:
This post is a year old???

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