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DAYBREAKERS UK Quad and TV Spot

daybreakers quad

The Spierig Brothers’ debut film, UNDEAD, was funny, quirky, and violent all the way up until it got completely ridiculous and nearly unwatchable.   If early word from Fantasic Fest is any indication, their follow-up film, DAYBREAKERS, is head and shoulders above that first effort.   The trailer (which seems to be playing in front of EVERYTHING now) is one of the better trailers of the year and gets you excited to see if the film can live up to it.

Today, courtesy of Empire Online, we have the UK Quad poster you see above.   It features a quote from Variety claiming the film to be THE MATRIX meets 28 DAYS LATER…, two films that never crossed my mind while reading about or seeing items about DAYBREAKERS.   Gotta love any poster that features Willem Dafoe brandishing a crossbow.

We also bring you today the first TV spot from the film that plays like a pseudo-PSA.

Check it out:

DAYBREAKERS hits theaters on January 8th, 2010.

DAYBREAKERS Farms Up a New Poster

daybreakers posters

Short and to the point, just like this poster courtesy of MTV, this image is damned impressive.  It doesn’t use Photoshopped heads of stars like Ethan Hawk or Willem Dafoe to pimp out the film, and, oddly enough, I’m always curious about posters that put all of the detailed information up and away from the bottom.  In fact, the entire marketing for DAYBREAKERS has been impressive since the get-go.  Judging from word out of Fantastic Fest, the film lives up to the hype, as well.

DAYBREAKERS hits theaters on January 8th, 2010.

The Spierig Brothers Want ‘Blood’ in Space

captain-blood

Michael and Peter Spierig, the Australian brothers behind ‘Undead’ and the upcoming ‘Daybreak,’ have set themseves up to next direct ‘Captain Blood’ for Warner Brothers.  They have been hired by WB to direct as well as write a new version of the 1935 classic starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. The Spierigs were chosen, because of their idea to have the new version of the film set in space.

At first, I felt like I was in that scene in ‘The Player,’ where Buck Henry pitches the sequel to ‘The Graduate.’  But when I took a look at their animatic depiction of a pirate battle in space, it had such a distinctive visual look to it that I said, ‘Great, I get it.’

That comes from producer Bill Gerber who is backing the project for WB.  The film will tell roughly the same story as the original, that of a doctor who is wrongfully sentenced to deportation and slavery and the buccaneer he forms allegiance with.

Says Gerber about the plot:

There are some things you don’t mess with, and that is as classic a movie storyline as you will ever find.

Source: Variety