00:00What was the biggest challenge of bringing this great book into the big screen?
00:06The challenge was marrying the genres
00:12and making sure you're not selling any of them short
00:19and using them to basically bring out...
00:24I mean, weirdly, bringing the zombies in makes the Jane Austen text yield new ideas and new things.
00:34So that was a challenge.
00:38It was mainly getting people to understand what we were doing.
00:42And finally, they understood because the film is coming out? How do you feel about that?
00:52It was pretty quick for me. I re-wrote the script and then we got it out there and then
00:58people started attaching themselves.
01:00We got this great young English cast and we were ready to go.
01:03Yeah. When it comes to, you know, because you're dealing with 1900s England and then you're introducing zombies and all
01:13that.
01:14Did you have to use a lot of different technology to make the story believable?
01:18The CGI enhancement, we shot on location in these great estates, then those are enhanced for our alternate world.
01:28Figuring that the zombie plague happened 70 years earlier, things have changed.
01:33Like the buildings are on sort of famous like stilts and things like that.
01:38Without being too steampunk, it's an alternate world.
01:41It looks like Regency England and then it's a spew.
01:46There are parallel worlds, right? I understand. In a way?
01:50The parallel worlds, and I m not a huge fan of allegory, but there is allegory in this.
01:59And I mean the big thing for me, influence for me was Richard Matheson's I Am Legend and using that
02:07as a template for my zombies and how I was thinking about it.
02:11Making the zombies not mindless people wandering, creatures wandering around waiting to get decapitated, but rather having them still cognizant,
02:20having them retaining some of who they were.
02:22They're just evil now. But some of them can pass for living people.
02:29L'unico modo per sopravvivere è combattere.
02:33Hanno invaso Londra e ora la regione è totalmente infestata.
02:36Infloro, tenetevi par da.
02:38Mi sono preparato a questo per tutta la vita.
02:41Pride and Pregiulis and zombies
02:42Al cinema.
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