If you haven’t been keeping tabs on AMC’s “The Walking Dead” blog, well, you’re in luck, because we have. It’s actually be rather cool and informative thus far, with interviews, sketches, videos, etc. Basically all your “Walking Dead” needs…
The latest blog offering is an interview with the great Greg Nicotero, who basically has a stranglehold on cinema’s zombie effects. Well, most effects, actually. Thankfully, one question asked of Greg is the question I would have asked, which is “How do these zombies differ from the ones you’ve created for Romero?”
Here’s his answer: “We used the graphic novel certainly as inspiration. We’ve always tried to push the envelope, and because I’ve done so many other projects it’s always one of those things where you finish a movie and go, “Oh man next time I know how we can make it better. And after that I know how we can make it even better than that.” We’ve taken everything that we’ve learned on all these other projects, and applied them in terms of using new materials and new techniques – even something as simple as a zombie getting shot in the head: We really sat down and worked through the best way to make that look realistic and practical.”
Nicotero also talks about a “horse eating” scene (hey, wasn’t there one in SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD?) that sounds pretty goshdarn vicious.
“It’s almost like a Piranha attack – it really was like a feeding frenzy. We had thirty extras leaning over this prosthetic horse that we created, and they started ripping its insides and its entrails out and going crazy. They were sticking their heads in it and their hands in it.”
For the rest of the interview, head on over HERE. “The Walking Dead” premieres in October on AMC.
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