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2019 Preview - Part 3: Books, TV series & the rest
Welcome back to my epic preview of all Zombie stuff happening in 2019. Part 1 charted the familiar terrain of upcoming Zombie movies. Part 2 dared to enter the unforgiving waters of game development. In part 3, I offer up what's left; books, TV series and other things.
Books
The Living Dead
Before his tragic death in 2017, George A. Romero - "Godfather of the Dead" - had, on and off, for the last 10 years, been writing a huge novel entitled The Living Dead. Such a massive undertaking, although unfinished, clearly could not be left to rot, abandoned and unloved, so, shortly after his death, Romero's wife and his manager began the search for candidates to complete the gargantuan text. Daniel Kraus (writer of Trollhunters and The Shape of Water novelisation among other things) signed on to complete the project. The completed book that is said to chart the progress of a Zombie plague of epidemic proportions across three separate time periods, releases in Fall 2019 and I, for one, cannot wait.
Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell
This three-part miniseries comic book acts as a prequel to George Romero's final scripted film, George Romero presents; Road of the Dead (a film that seems to have vanished from the radar). While legions of Zombies feast on the living, a young female scientist thinks she may have found the cure to this walking death pandemic. On the run for her life - famished Zombies, looney looters and crazed biker gangs do everything in their power to stop this potential saviour of mankind. Meanwhile, a group of loveable losers in muscle cars and a hijacked Abrams tank hit the road in a suicidal mission to save the last hope for the human race.
TV series
The Walking Dead season 9 continues
Coming as no surprise, The Walking Dead still shambles on relentlessly, despite ratings falling and actors leaving. Still, the series was rejuvenated, in my opinion, by the death yet-not-quite-death of Rick Grimes (actually one of the most disappointing episodes since the shows conception back in 2010). The teasing of The Whisperers, a strange bunch of renegades with a very unusual survival tactic, got me excited and I was not let-down by the big reveal before the mid-season break. With the emphasis on horror set to continue for the remaining episodes, it is thrilling to be, once more, awaiting the return of this aging show with more than a little anticipation.
Fear the Walking Dead season 5
It's back for a fifth season; the spin-off show to The Walking Dead will return in 2019 but exactly what form it will take following the major shake-ups in season four is not yet known.
Black Summer
This series, inspired by the now cancelled Z Nation, is about a mother, separated from her child during a Zombie apocalypse, journeying across infected lands and stopping at nothing to find her. It is, as said by the writer, to be set "before the apocalypse got weird and was just scary.". It has also been confirmed that Black Summer is "very, very serious", not relyting on the same tongue-in-cheek humour that Z Nation employed to be the funny version of The Walking Dead; "it's as if the zombie apocalypse really happened in 2018 and explores what that would be for all of us".
Kingdom
This is set to be one very, very unique Zombie tale. Set in Korea's medieval Joseon period, we follow a crowned prince as he is sent across his kingdom to investigate a mysterious plague that has been spreading. When he finds the source, it is unlike anything he could have imagined; the dead walk, feasting on the souls of the living and defiling the once peaceful land with their fetid, rotting flesh! It must be worthy of watching too as a second season has already been ordered.
The Rest
The Dead Times
Yes, if this comes as a shock to you, I fear for your sanity but The Dead Times will keep the Zombie madness rolling well into 2019. I'll continue to report Zombie news, review movies, smash video games, source videos and splatter up pictures - I should even get time to finish the long-awaited Zed-Dates feature! As a sneak peak of some planned material, there will be reviews of Anna and the Apocalypse and Dead Shack along with articles Zombie Crier - The Black Death and Zombieland 2: A shocking twist. I might even post a picture of me in the Tarman costume I wore at Castle Horror's The Maze event last year.
Castle Horror
With a recording breaking year behind them stocked full of events including CarnEvil of Horror, The Maze and Zombie Horrorween, you can bet your petrified Zombie arms that the team will be back in 2019, bringing a host more terrifically frightening scare events to the willing public.
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With 2019 now upon us, it's time to look ahead at all the goretastic Zombie offerings lined-up for this year. The third and final part, gives the low-down on all that still remains.
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09/01/2019