Japan's Zombie Film ONE CUT OF THE DEAD is Getting an Americanized Remake
The popular 2017 Japanese zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead/Kamera o Tomeru na! (Don’t Stop the Camera!), is set to get an English-language remake. For those of you not familiar with the film, here’s what it’s about:
A small low budget film crew is shooting a zombie horror flick in an abandoned water filtration plant, allegedly once used for human experiments by the Japanese military. Just as the director browbeats his actors and demands more special effects blood, a real zombie apocalypse erupts, much to his auteur delight. Packed with meta-movie references as mocking as they are loving, this relentless takedown of the Living Dead genre is a total blast.
I haven’t seen the original film, but I definitely want to check it out! It sounds like fun. Patrick Cunningham acquired the rights to the film and is producing and creators Enbu Seminar, Shinichiro Ueda and Ryoichi Wada are also involved. This is what Cunningham had to say in a statement about acquiring the rights to the film:
“Most U.S. and Western audiences won’t get to see it. It has only a limited release outside Japan and is not being released in the U.S. That’s such a shame for a film this fun and original.
“I was only able to do so because I was one of the people who brought them together and helped resolve the conflict. Ueda-san and Wada-san were friends beforehand, had a misunderstanding, and are friends again now.
“The goal is for as many people as possible to see it. We will know more about the direction it will take once we have attached a writer and director.”
The original film was directed and written by Shinichiro Ueda. Have any of you seen the original film?
Source: Variety