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The movie that Dakka has longed for may soon be a reality.
by Sean O'Neal February 22, 2011
Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes salt mine has snapped up the film rights to the IDW title Zombies Vs. Robots, which was spawned fully formed by Internet memes who became sentient and adopted the human names of Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood. Like their comic, the film will focus on a young girl who’s the only survivor of a zombie apocalypse, whose only hope for survival is a pack of robots. In that sense, it’s sort of a combination of similarly gestating ideas like the adaptation of Max Brooks’ World War Z, Steven Spielberg’s Robopocalypse, Jerry Bruckheimer’s World War Robot, and Jack Black’s How To Survive A Robot Uprising, and it boasts a title that fits right in with other recent mash-ups like Cowboys Vs. Aliens, the (passed over, it seems) NBC series Zombies Vs. Vampires, and Zombieland writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese’s script Cowboy Ninja Viking. It also suggests that Comic-Con may have launched some sort of brain-eating “genre virus” that could eventually wipe us out entirely, leaving the earth a battleground for the epic, end-all war of Robotninjazombie Vs. Vampiratecowboyalien: Rise Of The Werewolf Cops. By the way, I just sold that sentence to Relativity Media, so no one else can have it.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
2011/02/23 01:45:45
Subject: Re:Michael Bay to produce Zombies Vs Robots
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
George Spiggott wrote:Just accept that it will be a turd.
I accepted that the moment I saw the name Michael Bay...my dilemma comes from some deep need of mine to watch any film with zombies in it and my absolute loathing of Bay films.
Oh well,I sat through House of the Dead...how much worse could this possibly be?
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
Fafnir wrote:As soon as I saw... that name... I knew that it was a movie that I would never allow myself to watch.
I would agree under "normal circumstances"...but..as with Uwe Boll,stick some zombies in the film and I'll eventually watch it...even if I cringe through every single frame and end up hating myself afterwards...
Is there a "Zombies Anonymous" by any chance?
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
Dear Lord..I believe my internal conflict meter just went off the chart....what to do..what to do?
I accepted that the moment I saw the name Michael Bay...my dilemma comes from some deep need of mine to watch any film with zombies in it and my absolute loathing of Bay films.
