SIMON PEGG weighs in on the FAST/SLOW ZOMBIE debate…and yes, for some of us it IS a debate. CLICK HERE.
Inspired by the game and a shared love of Romero, Edgar Wright and I decided to create our own black comedy. Meanwhile, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland were developing their own end-of-the-world fable, 28 Days Later, an excellent film misconstrued by the media as a zombie flick. Boyle and Garland never set out to make a zombie film per se. They drew instead on John Wyndham’s Day of the Triffids, as well as Matheson and Romero’s work, to fashion a new strain of survival horror, featuring a London beset by rabid propagators of a virus known as “rage”.
My roommate’s brother-in-law pointed out:
at the beginning of Night of the Living Dead, the first zombie runs after Barbara. Hence forth, this entire debate has been planned by Romero for years.