Zombie TVA sue

Zombie TVA sue

Zombie TVA sue Zombie’ protesters sue utility, A public utility company’s leaders say they were forced to ban costumes at meetings last summer because a group of protesters dressed as zombies “disrupted” them . Now the Tennessee Valley Authority is facing a lawsuit after more protesters—now dressed as pirates were turned away from another meeting in Chattanooga, Tenn.

As previously reported, American Movie Classics' next stab at original programming (following the success of Mad Men and Breaking Bad) will be a zombie TV show based on the comic The Walking Dead. Now, we have official word that the network has ordered six episodes of the series, written and directed by Frank Darabont (The Mist). Production is set to begin in June, and the show will begin airing during AMC's annual October Fearfest horror movie marathon.The first official casting was also announced: Jon Bernthal, who played the jerky husband on the short-lived Eastwick, will play the best friend of the show's hero, police officer Rick Grimes. The character of Rick has yet to be cast, but rumors are floating around that Jonny Lee Miller (Dracula 2000, Mindhunters) is the front-runner.

Meanwhile, KNB Effects Group has been hired to do the special effects for The Walking Dead. The company has a good track record with all things zombie, having worked on George Romero's last three films (Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead), not to mention The Mist and the upcoming Predators

Created in the vein of 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead by English writer Charlie Brooker, Dead Set is the series that prompted Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) to write an incredibly intellectual and enlightening article about why zombies should never run. But a flesh-eating monstrosity frantically careening your direction is equally terrifying in different ways.
In Dead Set the ravenous zombie apocalypse is centered around the Big Brother house, where the popular reality show is filmed. It begins on eviction night, as the producer of the show fears sudden news reports of violence across the country will bump them from the air.
But of course the violence is a zombie uprising, and it is on a collision course with Big Brother.

October was a monumental time for zombies. In a hundred years we will look back and see how this was the turning point that altered the course of zombie history.
Some people cite society, economy and other global anxieties as reasons for the popularity of zombies. I think it’s because we would all love massive cities to ourselves and killing things without moral or social consequence.
Whatever the reasons are, The 2010 Halloween season was good to zombies, with the American premiere of the 2008 British zombie series Dead Set, the first zombie series to ever hit television, as well as the second, AMC’s The Walking Dead. When the first modern zombie stumbled onto the silver screen in 1968, no one ever would believed the dead would make it to mainstream television series.
A decent zombie story should pose new questions and scenarios revolving around survival in a world where the dead are returning to life to feast on living flesh. It should make you soil yourself, and then consider what you would do. A story about the living dead is really an introspection of human emotion and consciousness. What makes us any different than the dead? Could you really put a bullet through your zombie child’s head? Would you murder a fellow survivor for the safety of the group?

I want to note that while some shaky cam can add to the intensity of a scene, too much is distracting and nauseating. Despite fits of unintelligible camera shaking, though, it all pays off the moment the series culminates with the obnoxious Big Brother producer being brutally torn apart and eaten alive and closes with the kind of bleak, hopeless future we expect from a zombie flick.
Overall Dead Set makes a powerful statement about reality TV as it ends with zombies watching zombies watching cameras, and traumatizes in several new ways. I believe I have since developed a new irrational fear of the handicapped. In wheelchairs. Sure, they make good zombie blockades, but damn can they be creepy.
Dead Set also features a zombie Davina McCall, real life amputees, and zombie cameos by real Big Brother contestants and Charlie Brooker himself.

The Walking Dead
Based on the epic comic book series by Robert Kirkman and brought to the screen by Frank Darabont, The Walking Dead is a huge leap for those who can only lurch and lumber.
The series is being created by AMC, adding to their lineup of dark and edgy shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad pushing the boundaries of basic cable. But AMC’s award-winning writers don’t push the envelope just to elicit shock like we see most often – it is accomplished intelligently and with purpose.
With that said, The Walking Dead does not disappoint. The pilot episode “Days Gone By” begins immediately with the main character, kind-hearted police officer Rick Grimes, coming face to face with an adorable little girl in pink bunny slippers bent on devouring him.
The dead, created by makeup effects legend Greg Nicotero, are slow and clumsy, invoking all the creepiness of George A. Romero’s original Night of the Living Dead. They fumble with door knobs, they lay around motionless until provoked, and they wander around silently, disemboweled and hungry.

Besides the cataclysmic view of a crumbling Atlanta inhabited by hordes of the dead, I am particularly fond of the scene where the now legendary, internet-famous bicycle girl crawls relentlessly and laboriously across the park. You can feel the pain of her rotting muscle tissue still striving to pull her desperately and aimlessly along. It becomes horrifically easy to relate with Grimes as he sets out not so much to dispatch the walking dead, but put them out of their misery, end their pain.
Of course, compelling human drama is what makes a zombie flick more than violence and cannibalism, but the better the violence and cannibalism, the more dire and visceral the drama becomes.
Dead Set and The Walking Dead accomplish these things quite well, and will hopefully inspire much more zombie greatness. Flood the world with zombies. Overdo it. Ruin it. Kill it. They will inevitably return from the dead.