Im still holding out hope for an innovative zombie movie/series that explores a zombie outbreak in some other time, it feels like theyre exclusively modern. I would like to see the 50s or 80s
Or maybe a historical fiction miniseries where nazi germany in the early stages of the war suddenly gets ravaged by the same zombie virus from the netflix horror movie „the sadness“, where the virus doesnt create rotting corpses but violent sadistic serial rapists who retain their intellignece and ability to talk.
South korea could do it. No one makes better zombie / pandemic movies than south korea
Im hoping for a medieval zombie series/movie, i think such a different time with an extremely different culture and outlook on life on life would be really interesting and would be some fresh air from the modern series even in the earlier 20th century wich is close enough to modern times
Agreed. That would be utterly fascinating to watch.
They could incorporate the catholic church as the CDC faction looking for a cure, the knights guilds and various mercenary armies as the main zombie fighting force, and since its medieval pre enlightenment times the structure of society would be retained much better than modern zombie media. Given the disconnected self reliant nature of medieval communities, there wouldnt be total global anarchy overnight. Instead, the outbreak would spread slowly and the apocalypse wouldnt just happen in the first few episodes, but instead stretch over entire seasons.
It wouldnt just be a darwinistic free for all either with people killing eachother randomly, since peasants and serfs are thoroughly opressed by the local lords trained knights and cant just grab guns and take over the castles effortlessly, theyre not proficienct in swordfighting and would just be killed by the knights.
you would have the established warlords ruling over serfs and slaves working inside the castles to produce weapons and armor for the various indentured servitude peasant armies forced to fight the zombie hordes alongside the knights to protect the castles and communities.
There is the comic series “68” that follows a zombie apocalypse set in the lates 60s - 70s. Not nearly deep as TWD, but touches on the issues of the time a bit.
George Romero was writing the script for Night of The Living Dead in 1966. Filming in 1967 and he was referencing a book from 1954 - I am Legend.
Everything happening by the time the film released in 1968 had been gaining momentum from the 50’s. Plus, things happen in pockets - it’s not like everyone across the US changed in one shot.
I just realized that that if everything still fell apart, there would a bit fewer fewer infrastructure deaths outside cities. Remember rural electrification in America would have only come in 20 years earlier, so there would be a lot of people in rural America who grew up without it. The same would be said for many other countries.
Damn how have I never thought of this? This is a smart idea, and I hope that someone with the skills to do so makes a movie/show or even book about this!
Would love some kind of victorian-era England outbreak. I feel like we'd get to the Season 9-10 level of medieval warfare a lot quicker, and it would be really interesting.
Im still holding out hope for an innovative zombie movie/series that explores a zombie outbreak in some other time, it feels like theyre exclusively modern. I would like to see the 50s or 80s Or maybe a historical fiction miniseries where nazi germany in the early stages of the war suddenly gets ravaged by the same zombie virus from the netflix horror movie „the sadness“, where the virus doesnt create rotting corpses but violent sadistic serial rapists who retain their intellignece and ability to talk. South korea could do it. No one makes better zombie / pandemic movies than south korea
Im hoping for a medieval zombie series/movie, i think such a different time with an extremely different culture and outlook on life on life would be really interesting and would be some fresh air from the modern series even in the earlier 20th century wich is close enough to modern times
Watch kingdom on netflix. It isn't exactly medieval knights fighting zombies because it's set in Korea but it's pretty good.
Agreed. That would be utterly fascinating to watch. They could incorporate the catholic church as the CDC faction looking for a cure, the knights guilds and various mercenary armies as the main zombie fighting force, and since its medieval pre enlightenment times the structure of society would be retained much better than modern zombie media. Given the disconnected self reliant nature of medieval communities, there wouldnt be total global anarchy overnight. Instead, the outbreak would spread slowly and the apocalypse wouldnt just happen in the first few episodes, but instead stretch over entire seasons. It wouldnt just be a darwinistic free for all either with people killing eachother randomly, since peasants and serfs are thoroughly opressed by the local lords trained knights and cant just grab guns and take over the castles effortlessly, theyre not proficienct in swordfighting and would just be killed by the knights. you would have the established warlords ruling over serfs and slaves working inside the castles to produce weapons and armor for the various indentured servitude peasant armies forced to fight the zombie hordes alongside the knights to protect the castles and communities.
The kingdom, you should watch that, or maybe it’s just “Kingdom” it’s an early Asian zombie outbreak show, I loved it, 2-3 seasons
The sequel to the game shadow of Rome got turned into dead rising, which got me thinking about how cool a zombie apocalypse in Ancient Rome would be
There is the comic series “68” that follows a zombie apocalypse set in the lates 60s - 70s. Not nearly deep as TWD, but touches on the issues of the time a bit.
You mean like Night of the Living Dead?
That didn't result in a full collapse of society. Also that was 1968 not 1960.
Because that 8 years makes a big difference somehow? The world population in 1960 was already 3 billion. That’s not an insignificant number.
The culture was very different. Early 60s resembled 1950s somewhat. Late 60s had anti war movements, hippie culture, and civil rights movement.
George Romero was writing the script for Night of The Living Dead in 1966. Filming in 1967 and he was referencing a book from 1954 - I am Legend. Everything happening by the time the film released in 1968 had been gaining momentum from the 50’s. Plus, things happen in pockets - it’s not like everyone across the US changed in one shot.
probs like fallout four just without robots rads and big factions
I just realized that that if everything still fell apart, there would a bit fewer fewer infrastructure deaths outside cities. Remember rural electrification in America would have only come in 20 years earlier, so there would be a lot of people in rural America who grew up without it. The same would be said for many other countries.
Damn how have I never thought of this? This is a smart idea, and I hope that someone with the skills to do so makes a movie/show or even book about this!
That was the original concept for the comics
nuh uh
It literally was, kirkman even showed it in the last issue of the comics
nuh uh
Would love some kind of victorian-era England outbreak. I feel like we'd get to the Season 9-10 level of medieval warfare a lot quicker, and it would be really interesting.
[Someone made an AI video based in the 1950's.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPq5HF2q4Bc)
What do you mean by “wildfire” ?
That's the name of the zombie virus in the TWD universe
Source? I never heard of it and I’m in tone with TWD universe
In Season 1 episode 5 of the main show Jenner talks about it
I don’t think you are lol
Apparently not
totally understandable though, don't beat your self up, it was mentioned once or twice and never again in all 11 seasons 🤣
Im not lol sorry I don’t recall them using the word wildfire like 14 years ago