His personal favorite is the half-katana, half-shovel. Lipovsky said that part of the fun of making the film was experimenting with weapon combos. Some of the instruments are serious, like the spiked bat that users create by combining a baseball bat with a box of nails some are comical, like the beer hat made by combining beer with a construction hat and others are both, like the Hail Mary, which combines a football with a grenade. One of the game franchise’s trademarks is its creative combo weapons that characters use to massacre zombies. He said the team spent a lot of time making sure that the movie stayed true to the source material. (You) have to bring something fresh and original to an audience fast, so you move quickly through the development process, through the production process, and get it out to fans across all platforms on demand as quickly as possible.”ĭirector Zach Lipovsky explained that the movie’s plot is set someplace between the “Dead Rising 2” and “Dead Rising 3” games. He also spoke to the advantages and challenges of the digital medium: “Direct access to consumers (means being able to) get that feedback immediately. “When we heard about this, we just thought it was an amazing fit with our brand and with our audience, and are just excited to bring this type of content to them,” said Eric Berger, exec VP of Digital Networks at Sony Pictures Television and g.m.
The film is based on the popular “Dead Rising” video game franchise published by Capcom, which was heavily involved in the filmmaking process. The zombie apocalypse came to life on the Sony Pictures Studios lot on Wednesday night at the world premiere of “Dead Rising: Watchtower,” an original feature film by Crackle, Sony’s streaming network.Īctors in full freaky zombie makeup lumbered around the event, getting attendees in the mood for the film, which stars Jesse Metcalfe (“Desperate Housewives”) as a reporter who finds himself in a zombie-infested war zone.
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