Writer James Moran of the upcoming film Cockneys vs Zombies is teaming up with Paul Davis for his full feature directorial debut to give us a loving Christmas tale – Silent Night of the Living Dead. For the movie’s sound Paul has contracted Osymyso to work on the soundtrack. If you are unfamiliar with Osymyso’s work then you haven’t seen Shaun of the Dead as he did the score for that little gem which you ‘may’ have heard of. Yes the soundtrack is going to rock. The film is going to be starting in the spring of 2012 and hopefully we’ll be able to get some more news on it in the next few months!
According to Shock Till You Drop who scored a few initial words with Paul this is what we have to look forward to:
“With this I want to go back to Romero and Fulci in terms of making the zombie scary again,” Davis said. “To help me in that department I have enlisted the special effects make-up talents of recent Academy Award winner Dave Elsey [The Wolfman]. I met Dave, and his wife Lou, on The Wolfman at Pinewood in 2008 and just fell in love with both of them. They’re so talented and so incredibly sweet and adore that they are just utterly besotted with monsters – A couple after my own heart. I came away from that first meeting with them knowing that if and when I made my first monster movie, that I wanted to work with them and was delighted when Dave said yes. Some the ideas we’ve already bounced between us are very exciting and I know that the kind of variety I’m going for with regard to the look of the zombies is exactly what Dave wants to do.”
(above image is by Chris Zenga and has absolutely nothing to do with the film. We just needed some zombie Santa loving for the post.)
