Will You Watch MTV’s New Dawn of the Dead TV Series?
Some teen focus group must have suggested that zombies are the new vampires. Hot on the heels of yesterday’s news that Six Feet Under executive producer and former WB Entertainment president David Janollari had joined MTV’s programming team, comes word of this: The network is planning to create a spin-off TV series of Dawn of the Dead licensed from George Romero’s 1978 horror film, which was the second in his Living Dead series. On the surface this makes sense: the story is set in a suburban shopping mall.
And yet… If you’ll remember, horror fans absolutely freaked when Zack Snyder decided to do a big-screen “re-imagining” of the classic in 2004 — complete with fast-moving zombies. Lucky for him, Sarah Polley didn’t disappoint, and if nothing else, the first 10 minutes of the movie are cinematic gold. (Random bit of trivia: Title designer Kyle Cooper used actual human blood when designing the film’s opening and closing credit sequences. Yum.) But based on the caliber of acting in MTV’s previous original series (Undressed, anyone?), we wouldn’t expect much. Or anything, really.
Will this be shown in the UK? Who knows, but I just hope it doesn’t go down the same path as the Friday 13th series that we all like to forget.