While it’s not a good week for Clive Barker’s personal life it IS a good week for his career as according to STYD he’s got a zombie film in the works!
This is pretty awesome for a few reasons. First off it’s CLIVE BARKER WORKING ON A ZOMBIE FILM! That alone would be enough to be excited about. What’s really got me going though is it’s going to be titled Zombies vs. Gladiators and I’m sorry but a film that takes gladiators fighting the living dead? I’m fully fucking sold. Finally on this he’s doing this through Amazon’s new media division and I know they want to put out nothing but quality to continue breaking into publishing.
What his means is we’re going to be getting a kick ass Clive Barker made zombie film. It’s going to be awesome and I need to see it. Tomorrow. (I don’t think they have the script done yet so that might not be likely.)
SO what’s Clive have to say about this one?
“I’m excited by the opportunity to interweave two very rich narrative threads. One of them concerns itself with the reality of the decadence of Rome and its rise and fall. The other is a fantastical narrative element – the living dead. My brief to myself on this project is to give the audience not only zombies they have never seen before but also a Rome they have never seen before.â€
Barker added, “Amazon Studios offered up the dream ticket with this project. In twenty-five years of working in this town, I’ve rarely had people listen to what I had to say as closely and as carefully as they did and then simply give me the freedom to go do it. Amazon Studios is an innovative creative concept. I am looking forward to providing my own perspective to make Zombies vs. Gladiators a highly commercial and entertaining movie.â€
