{"id":18026,"date":"2009-09-16T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=18026"},"modified":"2009-09-16T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T19:30:17","slug":"american-zombie-anime-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/american-zombie-anime-really\/","title":{"rendered":"American Zombie Anime. Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/NoTLD_Origins.jpg\" alt=\"NoTLD_Origins\" title=\"NoTLD_Origins\" width=\"200\" height=\"330\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/NoTLD_Origins.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/NoTLD_Origins-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Director Zebediah de Soto and Simon West Productions are prepping a 3D CG animated <b>Night of the Living Dead: Origins<\/b> prequel to George Romero&#8217;s seminal 1968 horror film. Co-screenwriter and first time feature director de Soto describes the planned prequel as, &#8220;an American-style anime.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><i>Let&#8217;s momentarily set aside the fact that this is a planned &#8220;Dead&#8221; movie made without Romero&#8217;s involvement and produced because the director and producers realized that the rights to the original film are now public domain. If the precise meaning of the word &#8220;anime&#8221; hasn&#8217;t been corrupted to the point of irrelevancy yet, applying it to an American motion capture CG zombie movie might be the final nail.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatvisionblog.com\/2009\/09\/night-of-the-living-dead-remake-3d-cgi-origin-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Zebediah de Soto and Simon West Productions are prepping a 3D CG animated Night of the Living Dead: Origins prequel to George Romero&#8217;s seminal 1968 horror film. Co-screenwriter and first time feature director de Soto describes the planned prequel as, &#8220;an American-style anime.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Let&#8217;s momentarily set aside the fact that this is a planned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18027,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18026\/revisions\/18027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}