I just got done reading this on Scifi Wire:
Lions Gate Films is fast-tracking yet another zombie picture, Flight of the Dead, for a September start date, sources told The Hollywood Reporter. Flight tells the tale of two zombies who come unexpectedly to life aboard an airplane while being shipped back to their homeland after they are captured, the trade paper reported.
Gary Parker and Tom Lavangnino wrote the original draft of the script, with John Dunning and Lorenzo Ozouri doing a rewrite, the trade paper reported. No director is on board yet.
Ah, and so it begins.....a rash of zombie copycats the likes of which we haven't seen for nearly 25 years! Bad movie fans, zombie fans, and especially bad zombie movie fans rejoice!
Yes sir!
Zombies on a plane? Cool!
another bad zombue film?? i cant wait :)
Is this a straight-to-video movie?
I don't believe that it will be DTV. Lions Gate has a pretty good record of sending films directly to theaters instead of video. Cabin Fever, Bruiser, etc.
As for the film itself, it sounds like fun times. I'm curious as to if the zombies will be slow or fast. If fast, they could take out everyone on the plane in a matter of minutes. I do believe that a big obstacle the writers and director will have to overcome is the fact that it is a zombie flick in a very small environment. The film is on a plane. Not a whole lot of room for the action to happen.
I do believe that the film could be pulled off, I just hope that some helms the film that is able to do so.