Research into similar films

Research into a similar film

seen as we are doing a zombie film it would be a good assumption that we can research into the small details in our film such as how the outbreak would spread or how the outbreak was started. films such as zombie land, I am legend, Resident evil and 28 Days Later. The storyline to these films all contain a different theory on how the protagonist survives, who the antagonists are (humans fighting humans or humans surviving against an unstoppable horde of zombies) and how the infection spreads through the populace.
ZombieLand:
the protagonist is Jessie Eisenberg (columbus), he was a student at a college that was far away from the comforts of his family and hometown(columbus). he try's to make his way back to the town and finds himself in the company of Woody Harrelson (tallahassee) a professional redneck who has had his fair share of heartache (the loss of his son) and only wants one thing ... Redemption ... oh and a Twinkie. During a conversation in the car we are informed that the outbreak spread due to patient zero eating an infected sandwich that contained a mutated strand of mad cow disease in a gas station, he then started to infect the rest of america slowly turning the place into a zombie ridden wasteland. They then encounter the two sisters Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin (wichita and Little rock), they then endeavour to survive as they all end up in pacific play-land fighting off a horde of zombies.

Resident Evil Extinction:
As alice (Milla Jovovich) regroups with old friends after hiding from umbrella corp in a vegas nevada safe house, she endeavours to make umbrella corp pay for their crimes against humanity whilst battling against the zombie hordes unleashed by the villainous corporation. In this story the outbreak spread by a disease called the T-virus, it affects not only any humans that come into contact with it but animals and plants too. this essentially means alice and her team have to race across the mojave to escape the ensuing terror and destruction.



28 Days Later:

When a group of activists break into a research lab in cambridge to free chimpanzees from animal testing, little do they know that the chimpanzees are host to a brand new biological weapon known as rage that could completely wipe out the human race. The activists are warned about the consequences of their actions but they still proceed to set the chimpanzees free, the chimpanzees then bite one of the activists before fleeing the facility. The activist becomes infected and turns into a zombie, infecting the other activists and staff at the testing site. 28 days later the main character jim (cillian murphy) a bicycle courier, awakens in St.Thomas hospital in london. only to find that his country and most of the rest of the world is a desolate wasteland with close to no survivors, he then struggles to survive as he gets rescued and pursued by hordes of rage infested corpses. Jim and his friends are then captured he is to be executed and his friends are to be sold into sexual slavery, during a quarrel over who gets to kill him jim escapes the guards and formulates a plan to come back and kill them all. this is a good example of a zombie film where the zombies aren't the only things trying to kills the protagonist.


I Am Legend:

In this movie adaptation of the book the pandemic was caused by scientists reverse engineering the measles on a genetic level so that it would be good instead of bad whereas in the book it was caused by war which lead to high mosquito population to carry the virus and dust storms to take them to foreign places. The main character (will smith) plays a seemingly lone survivor of a pandemic that has swept through america and left a barren wasteland devoid of lie in its wake, he then tries not go mad by creating scenarios with manikins to give him something to do during the day. he is isolated save for his dog, and is trying to reverse engineer a cure for the virus that has turned the human populace into vampiric like zombies that are burned by sunlight and thus leave him be during the day. He returns to his safe place which is boarded up mansion with steel shutters to keep the infected out, this works quite well until one day one of the traps he set for himself knocks him out. he then awakes several hours later with the sun setting and nowhere to go, his dog gets bitten and he has to take him home and put him out of his misery (saddest scene in the whole film, works well because as soon as he kills his dog he finds a woman and her son.) they are then chased back to the house by the infected and he chooses to make the ultimate sacrifice allowing those he loves to escape, he also gives them the cure for the virus while he stays back to fend them off. this involves him setting off a grenade that wipes out quite a few of the infected. The mother and son then make it to a settlement filled with survivors