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(Update from Clint : Hey – yep, not much more to say at this point…. just that it’s on the way. Oh yes, the comic should be out this year; it’s superb. Now stand still whilst I kick you where it hurts Cappie!)
Captain here,
Clint will probably kick me between the goal posts for adding this bit – but only because it’s a film he’s producing and he likes to keep the site, and everything he does outside of it, separate. But there hasn’t been an update about this one for a few months, so as I see it, it’s worthy news to add. Gotta still think of the readers, yo! Thanks to ‘JS’ for pointing it out.
“Condition Dead” is a project that Clint and Dave Davis are working on with “My Bloody Valentine 3D” director Patrick Lussier. I’ve read the script – well, one of the very first drafts; sure it’s changed a bit since then – and it’s absolutely phenomenal. It actually reminded me a lot of “Aliens” – only with some of the most vicious zombies you’re ever likely to cross (not that you tend to cross them that often), and one heck of a cool team, led by a charismatic gun-toter named Judge. I guess it’s got sort of a “Dawn of the Dead” feel about it too, but it’s so unlike any other zombie movie I’ve seen I think comparing it to such does it an injustice.
It’s going to make a great movie. I know there was some talk (did Clint mention it here?) that it was going to be in 3-D – now, whilst I don’t doubt it’d work a treat in the format, I actually think it’s a film that would probably be best served straight-up… gimmickless. It’ll be a real old-school Saturday Mattinee-style horror/action-film – and I swear, just as I was with the script, it’ll grab you by the stress-balls from the very first frame. Can only imagine there’s a bitch of a bidding war going on for this thing… or there will be after “My Bloody Valentine 3D” hits theaters this weekend.
Oh, and before I get on with this item, here’s a small scoop of my own : Clint was telling me a while ago that there’s going to be a “Condition Dead” comic book. It’s done. And it should be on the shelves sometime this year. I hope that’s still the case, because I just mentioned it. Would be even cooler if they could draw in yours truly as a villain… a villain who gets the chicks…
Anyway, Mr. Lussier mentioned “Condition Dead” in an interview he did with FEARnet.com. He also touched upon his “dream project”, a serial-killer filmed titled “Headhunter”.
Do you have a “dream project” you would like to direct?
Years ago I read Michael Slade’s book, Headhunter. Michael Slade is the pen name for a cabal of Vancouver lawyers who specialize in the insanity defense. Headhunter is basically an incredibly brutal murder mystery that takes place in two or three different time periods, an all centered around the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Coming from Canada, that is a big thing – my grandfather was a Mountie. It is a project I would love to do. I would also love to do some big space epic – I guess that is back to that Star Wars thing.
Can you tell us about your next film, Condition Dead?
Sure. It’s not necessarily going to be my next movie, though. It’s a really fun project with Clint Morris producing and Dave Davis writing. It’s basically Saving Private Ryan with zombies. When I first read the script, and did a bunch of development on it with Dave, it was just so fun. It has a great cast of characters, and some wonderful uber-zombies that are unkillable in the best way.
