Arnold Schwarzenegger has reportedly signed as the lead in the upcoming zombie film, Maggie. Now before you fellow action fans get all excited, let me burst your bubbles. Maggie is NOT going to be your typical zombie film. If you thought “Warm Bodies” was weird you might want to prepare yourself.
Although it’s set in a zombie apocalypse type setting, Maggie is about a small farm family helping their oldest daughter come to terms with the fact that she’s been infected with a zombie virus and will soon become a member of the walking dead. It sounds like Schwarzenegger won’t be blasting zed with machine guns but rather accompanying his daughter on her slow road to zombiedom and helping her come to accept her fate peacefully.
Maggie was a 2011 Black List screen play,dubbing it one of the most popular unproduced screenplays of 2011. Chloe Moretz was originally set to play the daughter with Paddy Considine at her side as loving father. Moretz was unable to commit due to scheduling conflicts and Schwarzenegger has been added as a rather usual choice for the hero of a zombie film that isn’t about mindless explosions and undead assassination.
My first reaction on news of Maggie was the film is probably going to as well received as a tumor. Then I realized Arnold would surely correct me….”It’s not a tu-mah…It’s not a tu-mah at all.” I’m not sure how I feel about this one just yet but rest assured I’ll keep an open mind. When Maggie releases I’ll see it and then “I’ll be back” with a review. (I’ll try to avoid terrible Arnold references at that point.)
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sounds like it might be a good a “date night” type of zombie movie. at least it doesn’t sound like another “twilight” version.
It definitely sounds different!
While its true that this does not sound like your typical zombie movie I think I will like it. I really loved Warm Bodies because it is not the stereotypical movie and this seems like it will fall in the same category. The only problem that I see is that either Maggie will end up having to be killed at the end or the rest of the family is going to have become zombies because, unless they grow a conscience like R in Warm Bodies, then it will not be possible for the living and the walking dead to co-exist.
Id go see it…sounds ok.