This is why you should leave the zombie play to professionals in the movies, kids. And whatever you do, don't go around pretending to be a member of the face-eating living dead IN MIAMI, where folks are on high alert for crazed strangers and bath salts with good reason.
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With all the face-eatin' madness going around lately, it's been easy to wonder, after watching a few too many horror movies, if this is how the zombie apocalypse begins. Well, rest easy: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have officially stated that no zombie-making viruses exist. Yet. "CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms)," CDC spokesman David Daigle wrote to HuffPo. Phew! Still, remember the basics just in case they're horribly, horribly wrong: Go for the brain, run fast, and head for the nearest mall. Right? [Huffington Post]
Talking with i09, George Romero revealed that he's optioned Harvard psychologist-turned-writer Steven C. Schlozman's book The Zombie Autopsies, which is a zombie apocalypse tale with themes of economic collapse. Also: It's (100 percent?) medically accurate. "I think about it like the first Hammer Frankenstein film, which was all about very graphic scenes of brains floating in blood and things like that. I want it to be perfectly accurate, almost shockingly so." So, Night of the Living Dead meets Margin Call? Why not. [i09]
Writer Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box, Locke & Key) has sold adaptation rights to his short story Twittering from the Circus of the Dead, a horror tale told from the Tweets of a teenage girl as her road-tripping family runs across a zombie circus. Todd Lincoln (the forthcoming The Apparition) will direct from a script by Chris Borelli; sample Hill's tale, 140 words at a time, by following fictional heroine Blake Teller (@TYME2WASTE) on the Twitter. LOL ZOM (BIE) G! [THR]
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