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Up 12/3/04
News: 12 March
04
 Shaun
of the Dead to appear in 2000AD
It's been a while
since 2000AD last attempted a film tie-in (Danny Boyle's A Life Less Ordinary)
but the "top secret" project that Frazer Irving has been working on
is finally revealed as a tie-in to the much anticipated Shaun of the Dead. Clearly
a much better match to 2000AD's readership than the Boyle movie, and benefiting
from being written by the film's creators, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, there
are high hopes for this taster of the movie.
We caught up with
Frazer Irving for more info:
"I called
Tharg to see if he had a cover or 3 that needed doing cos I was looking to fill
a gap in my schedule. He said he had this little preview thing that needed an
artist and would I like it? Of course I said yes:)
The press release
pretty much says all there is to say about the strip...it's a trailer for the
movie, and is done in b/w with red, like the cover.
As for more,
well I don't know. My involvement so far has been limited to putting ink on page,
though once it sees print who knows what may develop from it?"
Hopefully reader
reaction will be good enough to tempt the writers and Mr Irving back for more.
We should also
get some more info from the writers late next week.
Here's the press
release in lazy cut n' paste o rama:
2000 AD, Britain's award-winning weekly sci-fi, fantasy and
horror anthology comic, will be publishing an exclusive, five-page Shaun of the
Dead story ahead of the self-styled 'romzomcom' going on general release. Scripted
by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, the movie's screenwriters (as well as star and
director respectively), and illustrated by acclaimed two-time National Comics
Award winner Frazer Irving (Necronauts/The Authority: Scorched Earth), the strip
will appear in Prog 1384, on sale 7 April 2004, two days before the film hits
cinemas nationwide on 9 April. The issue will also feature an original Shaun of
the Dead cover, again by Irving.
Titled 'There's Something About Mary', the story follows
a young supermarket check-out girl and how she comes to join the legions of the
undead in the film. Rather than being an adaptation of a section of the plot,
instead it weaves itself into the existing narrative, adding a further dimension
to the characters.
Shaun of the
Dead is an everyday tale of life, love and the living dead, focusing on a group
of friends who encounter a literal weekend from hell as their lives, loves and
personal squabbles are upstaged by a full scale invasion of the living dead. It
stars Simon Pegg (24 Hour Party People, Spaced), Nick Frost (Spaced), Kate Ashfield
(Late Night Shopping, The Low Down), Dylan Moran (Black Books) and Lucy Davis
(The Office).
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