There’s slow and hungry zombies and fast and rabid zombies, but what about existentially tormented zombies? Summit Entertainment’s Warm Bodies, based on the Isaac Marion debut novel of the same name, is certainly a different breed of zombie movie. Warm Bodies “follows an existentially tormented zombie named ‘R’ who begins an unlikely friendship with the girlfriend of one of his victims.”
R will have to watch his back because Variety reports that John Malkovich (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Red) is in final talks to play General Grigio, who is no friend to the zombie race. Jonathan Levine (50/50) is both the writer and director for the project.
[Above: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, and Rob Corddry]
Warm Bodies stars Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: First Class, About A Boy) as R, Teresa Palmer (I Am Number Four, Sorcerer’s Apprentice) as Julie Grigio and Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine, Childrens Hospital) as M, a zombie friend of R’s. Filming begins in Montreal on September 17th.
Book synopsis of Warm Bodies:
R is a young man with an existential crisis–he is a zombie. He shuffles through an America destroyed by war, social collapse, and the mindless hunger of his undead comrades, but he craves something more than blood and brains. He can speak just a few grunted syllables, but his inner life is deep, full of wonder and longing. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he has dreams.
After experiencing a teenage boy’s memories while consuming his brain, R makes an unexpected choice that begins a tense, awkward, and strangely sweet relationship with the victim’s human girlfriend. Julie is a blast of color in the otherwise dreary and gray landscape that surrounds R. His decision to protect her will transform not only R, but his fellow Dead, and perhaps their whole lifeless world.
Scary, funny, and surprisingly poignant, Warm Bodies is about being alive, being dead, and the blurry line in between.
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