Oscar-nominated screenwriter Shane Connaughton has come a long way since stumbling across filmmaking deals in a London pub by chance. His script for Jim Sheridan's 'My Left Foot' earned him an Academy Award and BAFTA nomination, while 'The Dollar Bottom', which he co-wrote with James Kennaway, scooped the Academy Award for Best Short Film. An actor as well as a writer, his acting skills earned him roles in long-running Utv soap 'Coronation Street'; Neil Jordan's 'The Miracle', as well as a number of successful theatre productions.
- 7/31/2012
- IFTN
Roger Christian, art director on Alien and Star Wars and a director in his own right (The Dollar Bottom, Black Angel, Battlefield Earth), is set to liven up Germany's most famous beer festival by unleashing hordes of the undead on the perennial booze-tourists at Munich's Octoberfest. The director provides this synopsis...
"When a group of English lads go to the beer festival for the drink and the women, they bite off more than they can chew; chemicals sprayed underground to neutralise the millions of gallons of urine has the unfortunate side effect of literally waking the dead. Long-buried in ancient crypts below the site and in the hospital morgue, the zombies arise..."
A horror-fest erupts as the unprepared revellers battle the undead hordes unleashed on them. Christian describes the project as "In the vein of Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland" and promises that the film will embrace "the comedic...
"When a group of English lads go to the beer festival for the drink and the women, they bite off more than they can chew; chemicals sprayed underground to neutralise the millions of gallons of urine has the unfortunate side effect of literally waking the dead. Long-buried in ancient crypts below the site and in the hospital morgue, the zombies arise..."
A horror-fest erupts as the unprepared revellers battle the undead hordes unleashed on them. Christian describes the project as "In the vein of Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland" and promises that the film will embrace "the comedic...
- 12/13/2010
- Shadowlocked
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