Tuesday 10 January 2012

WARM BODIES - movie news

I'm not that into zombie movies, in fact I'm about as sick of zombie movies as I am of vampire movies, but this one caught my attention for a couple of reasons. 

1) It's a warped love story, and I like warped love stories especially ones filled with unrequited love and hurdles to over come

2) It's got that boy from ABOUT A BOY in it - Nicholas Hoult - and I have a bit of a soft spot for him (you would have last seen him in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS)

WARM BODIES is based on Isaac Marion's novel of the same title and will be direct by Jonathan Levine (50/50). Zombie meets girl, zombie falls in love, zombie doesn't want to eat girls brains. How romantic. Also starring Teresa Palmer and John Malkovich, this might be one zombie movie that I bother going to see.  

 

Here's the full synopsis for WARM BODIES;

"Zombies love people, especially their brains. But R (Nicholas Hoult) is different. He’s alive inside, unlike the hundreds of other grunting, drooling undead—all victims of a recent plague that drove the remaining survivors into a heavily guarded city. Now the Zombies roam about an airport terminal, searching for human prey and living in fear of the vicious Boneys, the next undead incarnation.
One day, R and his best friend M lumber toward the city in search of food. There, R first sets his eyes on JULIE (Teresa Palmer), a beautiful human. Determined to save her—first from the other Zombies and then from the Boneys—R hides her in his home, a cluttered 747 aircraft. Julie is terrified, and R’s grunted assurances of “Not…eat” do little to calm her. But when R begins to act more human than Zombie, coming to her defense, refusing to eat human flesh, and even speaking in full sentences, Julie realizes that R is special.
After a few close calls with the Boneys, and with her father mounting an armed search for her, Julie realizes she can’t hide forever. So she sneaks back home, leaving R broken-hearted. Desperate to see her, R decides to comb his hair, stand a little straighter, and impersonate a human long enough to get past the city guards. If only he can prove to the humans that Zombies can change, maybe R and Julie’s love might stand a chance. But with the rampaging Boneys heading toward the city and Julie’s father intent on killing R and his Zombie friends, the stage is set for an all-out battle between the living and the undead.
A genre-bending tale of love and transformation, WARM BODIES is a story about a boy who loves a girl…for more than just her body."

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