kongisking said:Ho-ho. Why am I always the butt monkey?
We didn't <I>used</I> to call you that, but ever since the mods started spending so much time on TVTropes...
kongisking said:Ho-ho. Why am I always the butt monkey?
Attila the Professor said:We didn't <I>used</I> to call you that, but ever since the mods started spending so much time on TVTropes...
So... uh... what's up, AMC? First there was that pesky problem with how much money Mad Men showrunner Matthew Weiner's getting—an amount sizable enough that it's causing budget problems for AMC's other shows—and now it comes out that the network fired The Walking Dead showrunner Frank Darabont, who recently left the show under mysterious circumstances (and shortly after talking up the new season at Comic-Con). Say what you will about the show (I'm not too keen on it, myself), but The Walking Dead is clearly Darabont's baby—and with as crazy successful as it's been, you'd think he'd have had a bit of a safety net. Nope.
The craziest part of that story, though, is how the cast reportedly feels in the wake of the firing:
There also have been no public comments from the cast, and a source with knowledge of the situation says AMC has been "terrorizing" them and their representatives to discourage them from speaking out on Darabont's behalf. "They're scared," confirms another insider. "They're on a zombie show. They are all really easy to kill off."
I'd never thought about what it would be like to be on a zombie show before (I guess 'cause there's never really been a zombie show before, with the possible exception of The View... ka-ZING!), but man, actors on a zombie show have no job security whatsoever. Complain about craft services even once and, boom, a zombie's gumming at your eye socket on next week's episode. So the moral, I guess, is don't work for AMC, maybe? Unless you're Matthew Weiner?
(Also, vaguely related: You guys know that Darabont's unused script for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull—then known by the significantly less crappy title Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods—is online, right? 'Cause it totally is. And that's your Vaguely Related Indiana Jones Fact o' the Day™! [Tomorrow I will have a very scandalous one about Short Round.])
[Tomorrow I will have a very scandalous one about Short Round.]
Rocket Surgeon said:Distressing...
Rocket Surgeon said:Distressing...
Thanks for posting, but I'll be waiting to watch even the slightest bit!Le Saboteur said:But what he left is pretty damn impressive looking.
Rocket Surgeon said:Thanks for posting, but I'll be waiting to watch even the slightest bit!
He's fighting an undead George Romero in Call of the Dead.Le Saboteur said:But the one question all fans want to know: Where's Merle?!
To help us prepare for this potential undead disaster, the folks at Architects Southwest, an architecture firm based in Louisiana, have launched the 2011 Zombie Safe House Competition. The organization has tasked artists, architects and other zombie enthusiasts with one goal: Design a haven that can withstand a full-on zombie assault on civilization as we know it.
Design entries so far are varied and imaginative, to say the least. A top contender right now is the Zombie Ranch, a zombie-powered vertical farm. As per the design, humans live in a spiral housing system above ground, safely out of harm?s reach; down below, zombies run around in circles trying to catch hanging bait traps, all the while turning a turbine that provides energy for the humans in the ranch.
Rocket Surgeon said:
Dr. Gonzo said:^ I was actually engaged in a bit of a dispute over this film and something I worked on in 2009. Long story but a different idea was pitched and based off the parameters "after the civil war... zombies" many aspects were taken from our idea and placed in that film... many call that stolen... but as I've come to learn you can't copyright an idea, only the paper it's printed on.
anyway I'll go ahead and bitterly say ours was better.
and I guess baptism by fire applies too.
Indeed.Montana Smith said:It's a small world!
Go Goa Gone Synopsis said:A comedy. A horror-thriller. An action-adventure. Go Goa Gone is all of these rolled into one! A unique combination of fear and funny makes this film a one-of-a-kind genre bender - A Zombie Comedy, or ZOMCOM!
Hardik and Luv are two dope heads who tag along to Goa with their best buddy, Bunny, on his business trip. Luv comes across a free-spirited girl, Luna who casually invites them to an exclusive underground rave party on a remote island! The party is the brainchild of the macho Russian Mafioso, Boris, to launch the ultimate party drug.
But something is not right on this island! All of a sudden, they are accosted by zombies! Where did these zombies come from? And who is Boris really? And why has this cold-hearted drug-dealing don come to save their lives? Together they need to get the hell out of the infected island! But do they?
Dr. Gonzo said:Young and stupid I was.