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Charlie Brooker, Guardian critic, host of BBC4’s Screenwipe and one time cartoonist for Oink! comic, has written a new six-part zombie thriller to be shown on the UK’s E4 channel later in the year.
Dead Set will apparently be set in the Big Brother house during a zombie outbreak. More details soon, but for the moment, here’s a couple of pics nabbed from Mr. Brooker’s MySpace profile…
Jaime Winston as Kelly.
Warren Brown as Marky (on screen); Zombie (in gallery).
It is, of course, a remake of the 1941 original starring Lon Chaney Junior. Here’s the plot from imdb…
Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother… and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Talbot’s childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother’s fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate.
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