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South Africa’s contribution to the zombie genre, simply titled THE DEAD,
has been slowly building buzz via festival showings since last year, and
now it’s planning to attack big screens.
Howard J. Ford, who wrote and directed the film with Jon Ford, today revealed
that both U.S. and UK distribution is currently being finalized.
“Sorry it’s taken a long while to get news out,” he says.
“In truth, it’s taken us a year longer than anticipated for distribution to be
agreed but for very good reason: We could have taken 100-plus deals from
distributors for THE DEAD to just go out on DVD but we didn’t nearly kill
ourselves shooting this movie on 35mm film across Africa for it not to
go out on the big screen.”
While he isn’t ready to reveal the name of the company that has picked up
THE DEAD, in which an American mercenary and a local soldier flee and
fight the undead on the African plains, Ford does promise that “distribution
in the U.S. will happen theatrically, initially in 20 major cities this spring
and then spread outward depending on how many people actually turn up to see it.
” We’ll keep you posted, and you can read our early review of THE DEAD
here, see the trailer below and find its official website here.
DVDスルーの引き合いは100以上あったけど、アフリカ横断の撮影で
死ぬような目にあったのにDVDスルーなんかヤダ、ってことで映画館での
公開を希望してて、アメリカとイギリスでの公開が確定したと。
この春、アメリカの20の都市でまず公開し、興収しだいで順次拡大だって。