When Universal first announced that acclaimed Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinksi was going to be at the helm of the film based on 2K's successful BioShock videogame, it was like a shining light of hope on the blackened turd that is game to movie conversions.

Unfortunately, that light has dimmed a little today, with Variety reporting that Verbinski has stepped aside into Producers shoes while 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is now pegged to call the shots.

The change comes as a result of budget issues, with Universal not wanting this to go the way of the shelved Halo movie.

Verbinski opted out of directing because the studio's budget plan for the film has been revamped to lense abroad in order to take advantage of tax credits and favorable exchange rates. Verbinski couldn't commit to an overseas shoot because he is locked into directing the Paramount animated film "Rango," with the title character voiced by his "Pirates of the Caribbean" cohort Johnny Depp.

Fresnadillo may not be terrible by any means, but with only the lacklustre 28 Weeks Later under his Hollywood belt, remains largely unproven.

Variety reports that the change of director is still subject to rights-holder Take 2 Interactive's approval, but if Fresnadillo does get the thumbs up, let's hope he has the vision to get this one right.

lacklustre is generous ;p i'd call '28 weeks later' utter s***e.

lacklustre??? Whatever, it was a pretty darned good sequel, was well directed, and was tense. But, 28 Weeks Later was produced by Danny Boyle, and was co-directed with someone else... maybe the brother of Fresnadillo... so 28 weeks was obviously not just due to Fresnadillo. Anyways, I've listened to the commentary track of 28 weeks, and he sounds like a pretty cluey guy with a "vision".

And besides, 28 Weeks > Pirates of the Caribbean *.

the story of 28 weeks is totally fkn retarded. an uncurable disease wipes out all of the uk & the yanks decide to go back in coz all the zombie activity dies down!? without knowing what the disease is, how its transmitted, & no fkn cure!??! as fukn if. no one in thier right mind would do that.

then like they bring in civilian... then fkn kids !@?#! then they let them roam around freely... then one of the zombies is still kickin n just happens to be the kids mum?!@?!! what a load of horses***. it couldn't have been more stupid imo.

not that pirates of the caribbean was all that either... first one was a bit of a laugh... the rest were typical hollywood cash grabs.

And besides, 28 Weeks > Pirates of the Caribbean *.

renders any further comments of yours null and void in this thread.

i'd call '28 weeks later' utter s***e.

Lolwut?

the story of 28 weeks is totally fkn retarded. an uncurable disease wipes out all of the uk & the yanks decide to go back in coz all the zombie activity dies down!? without knowing what the disease is, how its transmitted, & no fkn cure!??! as fukn if. no one in thier right mind would do that.

then like they bring in civilian... then fkn kids !@?#! then they let them roam around freely... then one of the zombies is still kickin n just happens to be the kids mum?!@?!! what a load of horses***. it couldn't have been more stupid imo.

not that pirates of the caribbean was all that either... first one was a bit of a laugh... the rest were typical hollywood cash grabs.

Although it's quite clear you didn't see 28 Days Later, I can't figure out if you even saw 28 Weeks Later.

i saw them both. why don't you detail what you found so awesome about them?

I thought 28 Days was fkn epic, so I had low expectations for 28 Weeks, thinking it would be a cheap Hollywood knock off with not much originality. The first scene was BAM straight into the action, scored with the original theme by John Murphy/Underworld.

One of the things I loved about the original was the dirty, cheap looking filming that made it feel so much more real (and extremely original). The sequel somehow managed to preserve the gritty look of the first one, but did it as though it was all high-qual, post-event doco.

Although there was some corniness with the kids/dad subplot (and the dad somehow managed to survive firebombings and gassings lol), I thought the overall plot was sound, albeit a little predictable with the breakout. But then again, it wouldn't have been a very interesting sequel if something didn't go wrong, right? Also, the writer/directors weren't afraid to kill off the new characters, usually completely unexpectedly, which is very Hitchcock-esque. This is something that a lot of movies should do more... and some try to, but then bring back the beloved characters with some random excuse like, "He was just hiding all this time..."

That's my opinion. If you want me to rebut the specific inaccurate comments you made about the film, I'm happy to do that too:p

All in all, as a fan of the 28* series, I thought it was tops. Out of curiosity, did you enjoy the original?

nope. the original did nothing for me either. it came across as a cheap zombie holocaust flick where they didn't call them zombies. at a time when there was already zombie holocaust movie overkill.

of course it wouldn't have been a movie unless there was another outbreak... but still... why did anyone go back? what was there to gain? why was no one concerned that every attempt to stop the initial spread failed? the yanks just seemed to walk straight back in... seemingly thinking a few gunmen on rooftops would sort A DISEASE THAT KILLED 61 MILLION PPL! #@!#!@

as i was watching it everyone in the room was like 'of course it's gonna outbreak again... they just let 2 kids ride a fkn moped into restricted zones n no one tried to stop them!@#!' totally unbelievable imo.

how come the kid's mum survived anyway? what made her different from the other rag0rz? :P

why did anyone go back? what was there to gain?

lolwut!

A mysterious virus just wiped out a whole f***ing country, leaving infrastructure largely intact. As quickly as it appeared, it seemingly burned itself out. The entire U.K. is effectively empty of people.

If you can't see any reason to go back and work out what happened (and determine ownership of the U.K. if its now safe) then your brain is even more f***ed up than mine! There are plot holes no doubt, but "why go back there" is not even close to one.

Had something to do with her having two different coloured eyes. 28 weeks wasn't a bad movie by any means, but it wasn't blockbuster either. Still, could be a lot worse as far as choice of director goes.

the story of 28 weeks is totally fkn retarded. an uncurable disease wipes out all of the uk & the yanks decide to go back in coz all the zombie activity dies down!?

It was the UNs decision, and the forces were led by the US. The "zombie" activity didn't "die down". The people who were infected with the disease died of starvation. They waited long enough for everyone who was infected to starve to death.

without knowing what the disease is, how its transmitted, & no fkn cure!??! as fukn if. no one in thier right mind would do that.

They knew what the disease was, "rage", they knew EXACTLY how it was transmitted, blood or saliva, and the cure was death.

then like they bring in civilian... then fkn kids !@?#! then they let them roam around freely...

This was the point of the start of the movie... the doctor soldier also couldn't understand why they would bring in kids, and it created more drama for the film.

then one of the zombies is still kickin n just happens to be the kids mum?!@?!! what a load of horses***. it couldn't have been more stupid imo.

The mother actually had some sort of tolerance to the disease so she showed no/few symptoms of it. You really missed the whole point of the movie if you didn't get this. What this means is that the mother, or one of the kids could potentially hold the cure or the vaccine to the disease in their blood. That's why there was such a big fuss made about rescuing the kids, and basically all the main characters gave their lives to protect them.

not that pirates of the caribbean was all that either... first one was a bit of a laugh... the rest were typical hollywood cash grabs.

We reach some common ground there :p

the original did nothing for me either. it came across as a cheap zombie holocaust flick where they didn't call them zombies. at a time when there was already zombie holocaust movie overkill.

Why do people bother seeing a sequel to a film that they didn't enjoy?

They weren't zombies because they were living humans... as opposed to the walking dead. Also, zombies crave human brains and or flesh, whereas the infected in 28* were just after violence.

And I'd say 28 Days was one of the films that started the zombie movie overkill - there was only a couple of other decent zombie movies in the cinemas around that time. Now every second movie seems to be cashing in on how awesome zombies are...

.If you can't see any reason to go back and work out what happened (and determine ownership of the U.K. if its now safe) then your brain is even more f***ed up than mine! There are plot holes no doubt, but "why go back there" is not even close to one.

yeh that worked well.. they went back n all died just like everyone before them died. what good is infrastructure if it's infected with an unstoppable disease? also why didn't all the nuclear reactors blow up? ;)

It was the UNs decision, and the forces were led by the US. The "zombie" activity didn't "die down". The people who were infected with the disease died of starvation. They waited long enough for everyone who was infected to starve to death.

what caused the disease in the first place then? if the disease 'dies' with the last surviving host then where did it spring from & why couldn't it spring up from there again!?

They knew what the disease was, "rage", they knew EXACTLY how it was transmitted, blood or saliva, and the cure was death.

no they didn't. that's the evidence they had... but they'd be fkn retards to assume that that's the only way a disease like that could spread. or that the cure was death... how did they know that?! everyone fkn died? there was no way of knowing that the corpses weren't still infectious.. unless you sent soemone back in to see. if they knew, 100% certain, that it could only be transferred via blood... then why didn't they go in wearing suits that couldn't be peirced by human teeth or nails? why not use tanks? the last thing ya'd do is send in a few soldiers with sniper rifles n flak jackets. dumb.

This was the point of the start of the movie... the doctor soldier also couldn't understand why they would bring in kids, and it created more drama for the film.

oh that was the point of the movie! :P to create some drama! novel!

The mother actually had some sort of tolerance to the disease so she showed no/few symptoms of it. You really missed the whole point of the movie if you didn't get this.

well i missed the whole point then... coz how & why did the mother have a magical tolerance? she got brought down by the ragers like everyone else. doesn't make any sense.

What this means is that the mother, or one of the kids could potentially hold the cure or the vaccine to the disease in their blood. That's why there was such a big fuss made about rescuing the kids, and basically all the main characters gave their lives to protect them.

yeh awesome. they could make a vaccine that turned you into a half-rager that only carried the disease with only a bit of rage. what's the point of that?

Why do people bother seeing a sequel to a film that they didn't enjoy?

wasn't my pick on movie night i assure you ;p

demon i assure you, you're a trolling c***.

what caused the disease in the first place then? if the disease 'dies' with the last surviving host then where did it spring from & why couldn't it spring up from there again!?

it came from chimps that had been experimented on

It's official, Demon watched the film muted.

Sounds like if demon could have written the movie, it would have been set in a different country, would have been about a different topic, and wouldn't have had anything to do with anything. It could just be called, "Movie".

It's official, Demon watched the film muted.

hahah. i admit that when i watched the original i was drunk n in the mood to put s*** on some stupid zombie movie. i may have missed some key information while listening to other people's complaints about the s***ty movie... but i don't think so... it was just a s***ty movie. :D

gg troll

Y'know what, I feel sorry for people that can't use their own imagination to fill in plotholes

Y'know what, I feel sorry for people that can't use their own imagination to fill in plotholes

Why would I want to use my imagination to fill in a plothole in someone else's s***ty movie? I'm paying for THEIR imagination. I can sit at home and imagine my own awesome movies all day for free!

Hopefully you don't read books then, trog.

Hopefully you don't read books then, trog.

? Books don't need imagination. They contain what we in the reading business call "stories". Because a book actually goes into more detail you need much less imagination than you do for the average s***ty movie that appeals to people with limit attention spans.

So reading decreases imagination compared to watching films!? Just trolling...

And besides, there's a huge difference between plot holes and (questionable) plot decisions.

yeh that worked well.. they went back n all died just like everyone before them died. what good is infrastructure if it's infected with an unstoppable disease? also why didn't all the nuclear reactors blow up? ;)

The outcome doesn't affect the validity of the motive for going in. Obviously they were all going to die, or it would have been a boring movie. The infrastructure isn't infected ... are you thinking of the same movie? Do you understand the premise of the rage virus at all?

Nuclear reactors don't just "blow up" all by themselves if left alone. This is why we can't have nuclear power, because people are stupid.



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Why would I want to use my imagination to fill in a plothole in someone else's s***ty movie? I'm paying for THEIR imagination. I can sit at home and imagine my own awesome movies all day for free!

haaha

and i feel sorry for people who think using their imagination to fill in dumb plot holes/s*** writing is acceptable

that's like saying the car i bought, it's airbags don't work so i should just BYO.