‘Zombies Ate My Neighbors’ Movie Still Moving Forward

The film loosely based on the 1993 SNES video game is still moving forward and The Daily Dead was able to snag some details about what we can expect. While the film will feature Zeke and Julie, the focus will not be on them or what happens in the game. This is more of an origin story. (They DO want to have a sequel though that will focus on the events from the game.)

“Zombies Ate My Neighbors is set in modern day, and will be centered around two high school buddies on the verge of graduation. Here, you’ll have the classic John Hughes-esue coming-of-age story. We tried to focus more on the aspirations of our characters, and what happens to them when adulthood sets in. You got to think about college, a career, the people that you’ll probably never see again, first loves, all that. Then things get messy on the eve of this huge graduation block party. And these kids sort of get to live out their secret ambitions of becoming adventurers by becoming the unlikely heroes of the story. We kept the mayhem contained to a small neighborhood, but as for those questions regarding Zeke, Julie, gigantic babies, etc. Think about what happens when a small virus goes global. And how the rest of the world would react to that…”

The question I get asked the most is: will Zeke and Julie be in the movie? and what about the giant baby? All I can say is… YES, well, kind of. Zeke and Julie will make an appearance, but the gigantic baby will have to wait for a sequel. You can’t really throw the kitchen sink at audiences without a plausible origin story. The wackiness of the video game was something I loved, but turning all that into something watchable, and more importantly something we can understand and care about took some careful scripting.

So the movie is moving forward, it’s an origin story, they are planning a sequel already, and it will somehow include the giant baby from the game.

I’m not sure how it’s all going to end up on screen or tie together but I’m very curious as to what they end up showing us and can’t wait for this one to start getting some trailers.