Filmmakers Launch Campaign for Zombie Apocalypse Comedy
They showed up to audition for a commercial about life in 2015, but once Chris Meister and Mike Manship started riffing about turkey calls, bathtub electrocution and the “re-zombification of Dick Cheney,” producer Eric Anderson realized he had a couple of real characters on his hands.
The pair’s goofy rapport, documented in the video clip above, inspired Anderson to write Zompocalypso. The film, which Anderson is looking to finance through an IndieGoGo campaign, will focus on two bumpkin brothers who hole up in a farmhouse equipped with weaponry and a box of stale beans to brace themselves for a zombie attack.
“As I sat there and watched these guys — who had never met each other before that moment, mind you — improv for a half hour about surviving a zombie apocalypse it dawned on me that this could make a very funny film,” Anderson notes on the film’s IndieGoGo page.
Anderson, who will direct the movie, and his wife Amelia Dellos hope to raise $10,000 for their Corn Bred Films production through the site. But no matter how much they raise, the filmmakers plan to bring Meister (on the left in the video above) and Manship (right) to Joplin, Missouri by early summer to begin filming on the backwoods zombie film, which Anderson describes as “an improvised found-footage comedy with a sprinkle of horror… The Blair Witch Project as directed by Christopher Guest.”
Check out a teaser for the film below, then head to the IndieGoGo page to help Anderson and his horde make their zombie apocalypse comedy.
