Shaun of the Dead...

Strange as it is... I have over 50 original issues of E.C. comics in a storage trunk of my fathers.  I wonder what they are worth, if anything?  I love E.C. comics and that is what my inspiration of writing comes from and you can see it in all of my work. E.C. and Rod Serling are my two biggest influences in screenwriting, Fulci is just my muse in a way.  

Watching his movies, be they horror, soap opera's, westerns or crime drama's and even a few comedies... he just makes you wanna make movies.  He makes you wanna try to create something just as good, if not better than is wonderfull work.

I think you might be on to something with your idea, by the way. Maybe an old witch shop gets torched and with it the "book of necrosis" or something and this brings about the dead.  I dunno, it's late and I'm off to bed.

By the way, Necrosis is actually my 7th feature length movie I'm working on now.  If you don't know, NECROSIS is the process of good flesh turning into dead flesh, often induced by a Wolfspider or Fiddle back spider bite.  Even more so by the Wolf spider though, which, many believe the Fiddle back to be more dangerous in that area, but it's a myth... The wolf spider is actually far more toxic in this area.

I don't know why I'm telling you any of this, cause my movie has nothing to do with spiders in the least bit and you probably don't give piss in a cat dish about spider bites and what effect they may or may not cause.

Take care, bro.

So it could begin with a group of teens reading E.C and joking about their lives.
They could be reading in one of the friends room when his mother, one of those anti E.C pro-censorship, finds them reading the comics.
Upset, she brings together the parents of the town and they decide to take and burn their childrens comics.
In this bonfire a "Book of Shadows" is accidently burned and the dead rise.
The entire town is thrown into chaos and only the teens know how to stop them.

- That's just the start -

I was thinking the script could be presented as a comic book, ala, Creepshow's transitions. -

I think before people start writing that there should be an established group of people to focus the story on.

The first thing needed to do is establish well rounded characters.

So how about a group of teenagers, five kids, living in a small town suburbia.
They spend their days talking about baseball, girls, and the wonder that is the E.C comic.
So the script starts out presenting a casual day which gradual becomes the zombie flick.
Think cheesy, campy, and fun.

Think, survivor of a horrific experiment by the government, now old, out of shape, drinking, up in a cabin in a forest, trying to forget his life, his past, watching TV day and night, sleeping, eating, and smoking a lot. One day the TV channels are all on one thing: a widespread of the thing he feared the most: the experiment sent out on the mass, bringing people back from the dead. He knew all along, still can't believe it, but he must do his duty, opens up a closet filled with weapons we don't even know about, the ultimate zombiehunter!

Here's a basic outline for the beginning:

Collabertive Zombie Flick - treatment-

Beginning:

We open in a 1950's Americana small town. A place where the sun seems to always shine and the grass is green on both sides. The script begins with the introduction of a group of five friends: Carter, Romero, Vincent, Dante, and Brad. They spend their days reading E.C comics. That night while they're reading the comics Brad's younger kid brother gets a hold of one. This prompts his mother - the classic June Cleaver, uptight and procensorship - to go and organize a comic book burning.  A mystical book is thrown into the fire, and the dead begin to reanimate.

How about the main characters are based on the people who are collaborating?

Sure.

is it a comedy? if its a comedy you need to have a chubby kid they use as a scape goat like in stand by me.  and no one spends all day reading E.C. comics, thats just unrealistic, and your characters will appear nerdy.  unless you want that.  but variety in characters is always good.  and their should be at least one girl.  three guys and two girls would probably be your best bet. maybe one girl and one guy are a couple.  Variety always helps.

Yeah it's a comedy -

I may actually adapt this for the zombie anthology I'm doing

If anyone else is intrested in writing a zombie short you may want to check out the "Zombie anthology" thread - it's posted under the "I'm looking for..." message board.

This should be a splatterflick

I think we should begin just writing this on here

FADE IN:

EXT. GRAVEYARD - NIGHT

A crash of lightning illuminates the darkened graveyard.

POV - ground

In that brief second we see an axe raised high in the air.
A man OFFSCREEN screams as the axe is swung down.

It crashes against a lock that's placed on the door of a mossulieum.

An aged man, JACK CUTTER , wipes his brow.  

JACK CUTTER
We ain't got much time, hurry.

He knocks open the door with the blunt of the axe and motions for the others to follow.

It'd be a whole lot cooler if that guys name was JACK CUTTER... The way it is, I just wanna smack him for a nickel.

A pack of three cronies, the kind of lowlifes who exsist within the realms of pulp novels and dime a dozen comics, follow.