Chee Keong Cheung, The man behind ‘Underground’ and ‘Bodyguard: A New Beginning’ (neither of which I have seen I may add) wants to give us his take on the Zombie Apocalypse. In fact he’s doing so with a movie entitled, wait for it, ‘Zombie Apocalypse’! This Lancaster based film-maker was 16 when he started making films and has creating them ever since.
I was fascinated with the medium of film and how it could connect with such a large number of people, and how powerful it was. These worlds that can be created – and that was what really intrigued me and drew me in.
So that’s great but I still don’t have a real clue as to what he can do. However, he has sold one of my favorite creators of all time on his work.
I had the idea for Zombie Apocalypse and then got introduced to Kevin Eastman, co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
“He really embraced the idea, and he became a really good friend. To have the opportunity to work with him has been a real privilege.
Eastman liked it? OK, NOW I want to hear everything you can tell us!
Zombies have seen 
something of a resurgence of late (28 Days Later, World 
War Z), and Chee’s idea is to give the zombies the powers they had as humans but enhanced.
“The idea is to have zombies retaining certain abilities.
“If they had a certain human skill – like being really fast, or really strong, then it would be retained.
“It’s quite dark and quite unique. It’s a men on a mission kind of film.
“This is the project I can make and create and control.
“The last two years have been putting that together, and getting it into the state where we have the right team in front and behind the cameras.
“I’d say it’s a fusion between Black Hawk Down, Dawn of the Dead, and Ong Bak.
“We’re going to be filming right across Lancashire, Manchester, Liverpool and London with 105 locations in total.â€
Chee said his other venture, Intense Distribution, allowed him to open up other avenues in the film world.
“It’s a way of giving voices or exposure to those films that may not normally get it, to give them a platform,†he said.
“What’s different about Intense is I know how I would want a distributor to work for my films, so we can give a filmmaker that special service because of our experience.
Via: Lancaster Guardian.
