Back in May I alerted you to a demented project called ROSE, about an ex-mental patient turned puppet show hostess turned zombie killer. Yes, an inventively bizarre premise that I’m sure we’d all love to see come to fruition. Trouble it, the creator of this madness, author John Skipp, is still struggling to gather funds for the film. So he’s “kickstarting” a campaign to raise the dough.
On Monday, Skipp launched a 45-day campaign on the popular website Kickstarter, with the goal of raising $250,000 for the live action feature. He is appealing, in particular, to the thousands of Zombie Walk groups around the world, by offering incentives that include using actual zombie walk footage in the film.
Here’s what Skipp has to say on the matter: “I got invited to a Facebook group called ‘The Zombie Apocalypse in which over 400,000 people signed up to say, yes, if the zombie apocalypse happens, I will definitely be attending. Several hundred thousand more remain unsure as to whether they’ll show up. I don’t know if that means they think they’ll be already dead, or what.”
“But it made me think, ‘Man, one skinny dollar from each of those folks, and we could make this movie twice!’ And I think Kickstarter’s an amazing model for funding wildly original projects that mainstream Hollywood wouldn’t touch. And those, of course, are the films we need most.”
Rob Hall’s Almost Human FX (THE CRAZIES) will be providing the make-up for this particular zombie apocalypse once it gets going. If you’re interested in helping out Skipp and ROSE, head on over HERE. Contributors to the cause will get a producer credit and other incentives.
“Rose” herself, Chase McKenna