"DISBANDED"

I finally finished my feature length zombie script, 'Disbanded'.

"On the road trying to reach a safe haven, eight people must work together to survive a zombie apocalypse".

I started it in 2004.  Wrote half of it for a good six months then shelved it.  I picked it back up in 2008 and finished it in a week.  It's funny I thought it would never see the light of day. Granted I did send it out to a few readers with lack luster reviews.  So I put that in my archives never to be touched again.

 I tried to outgrow my zombie phase as a filmmaker.  Having seen the original 'Dawn of the Dead' as a 3rd grader during a sleep over I loved them.  Not so much the zombie gore but the post-apoc part.  I like to see a situation where society craps on themselves so to speak.  In normal society, folks would go about their day. But in a zombie apocalypse where it's self preservation, I like to see characters either at their very worst or their very best.

After the recent popularity with zombies again...'Zombieland', (I have to totally applaud AMC) the new TV series 'The Walking Dead', the independent film 'Colin' and the upcoming 'World War Z' movie, I don't think zombie movies are a film school cliche' anymore.  Right now everything is lame vampires.

Last month I dusted off my zombie feature to see how far I came as a writer in six years.  Honestly not that far but in a good way. I think it's a great script despite some of the initial feedback. I hit all the right plot points, I have twist and turns.  So I revised again.  I put everything in script format and fixed a lot of the structure.  And I submitted it to a script writing festival, so we'll see how that fairs.

Anyway, my last film at film school was a tip of the hat to the zombie genre.



Also check out The Walking Dead Tonight at 10/9 central on AMC.