"Z Nation" - Syfy Orders New Zombie Series
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"Z Nation will take viewers where no zombie has gone before,” says Schaefer. The show, he continues, adds “a sense of hope to the horror of the apocalypse – our everyday heroes take the fight to the zombies. It’ll be an epic journey unlike anything you've seen before.” - Syfy
Syfy announced that the show will have a 13 episode season starting this Fall. It's being produced by The Asylum (ohhh crap!). This has disaster written all over it. The Asylum couldn't produce a decent sandwich - nevermind a TV show! Just go to IMDB and look at what they made over the years: LINK
The lone good news is that the producer of EUREKA is involved and will executive produce this series as well as be its showrunner. I'm not gonna lie. I'm curious to see how this one turns out. Might be good for a laugh.
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Syfy announced that the show will have a 13 episode season starting this Fall. It's being produced by The Asylum (ohhh crap!). This has disaster written all over it. The Asylum couldn't produce a decent sandwich - nevermind a TV show! Just go to IMDB and look at what they made over the years: LINK
The lone good news is that the producer of EUREKA is involved and will executive produce this series as well as be its showrunner. I'm not gonna lie. I'm curious to see how this one turns out. Might be good for a laugh.
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The Walking Dead is stomping everyone in the zombie horror genre at the moment. Is it really wise to compete against the TWD?
Expecting them to announce a fantasy series called War for the Crown any day now
So basically a reluctant hero on a quest to save the world travels a dark land ravaged by orcs - sorry I mean zombies, accompanied by an elf, a dwarf and a wizard.
Hopefully they'll cast Summer Glau from the start
They have much better sounding shows due for next year though
Apart from the walking dead, other apocalypse shows have sucked.
The fact that the guy from eureka is doing it worries me. He can't construct a well thought out compelling story arc well at all imo.
Don't cast Summer Glau. She's a good actress but is the bad luck charm when it comes to her track record of science fiction shows. Every show she appears on gets canned.
Arrow and The Big Bang Theory (just a guest appearance, but she still appeared) are doing just fine at the moment.
Maybe she actually needs significant air time to tank a show? Someone must have worked out how much
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You never know, that might be what makes it worth watching
Presumably the opening scenes would be on a beach with shirtless hunks and girls in bikinis as I understand (from limited viewings of their work) this is something of a 'signature' or theirs.
I also have a suspicion this won't reach freeview for several years
I can certainly see plenty of shirtless hunks and bikini-clad lovelies in each episode
There's an FX shot 12 seconds in to the trailer that looks very much like The Asylum's trademark of either using a plastic dummy or simply CGI'ing in the blood and gore effects in post production.
It really does make it look very cheap.
But then, to be fair, some of the more recent Asylum films have actually looked halfway presentable in the trailers - "Age of Tomorrow" being one of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV7jWEJR_s0
I think they were right sneaky with the "heard about this place from an ex-cop who'd taken up home with some people in an old prision" thing. It's like this isn't "another" zombie show, it's a "sister" show to the Walking Dead - or at least that's what you could think of it.
Few minor quibbles about their wanton use of bullets, and no stabbing 'dead' zombies in the head before searching them just to be certain, but all in all this gets a thumbs up. I was going to say a :yay: to the X-OZ inmate being the leader but I guess that wasn't to be.
I'll give it a go.
Syfy have a much better range of shows due for next year.
I can't remember a single character's name, though.
LOL, yeah, I caught that!
Just a knowing wink, or trying to make people think they are actually connected?
As soon as I saw it was from 'The Asylum' I knew it would be low quality.
Roll on TWD.