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Monroeville Zombies 12 Inch Cop Figure…
Time and Space Toys, LLC is pleased to announce the launch of its Monroeville Zombies project, which will premiere at the HorrorFind Weekend convention in the Baltimore/Washington, DC-area next week, with an exclusive 12″ Zombie Cop Action Figure (aka Officer Kane Heinz). The Zombie Cop will be the first of several 12″ zombie action figures, at 1/6 scale, to be released throughout the year at various venues. Read on for more info and a look.
A limited number of only fifty Monroeville Zombies 12″ Zombie Cop figures will be produced and available at the show. This individually numbered, limited edition figure, manufactured by Peril Unlimited, is fully poseable, with real cloth clothing and detailed police accessories. The figure has two layers of production. After being factory-produced and painted in China, the figures are transferred to the United States for more work. A special, secondary paint application gives the figures a very realistic textured look, and special distressing of the clothing gives them that perfect worn-and-torn zombie look. This launch figure will be the most limited of all the Monroeville Zombies figures.
Decades ago, the modern horror film was created with a tale of zombies laying siege to a shopping mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. While the film was fiction, its following was and continues to be very real. Monroeville Zombies is a new project based on the concept that life (and in this case, death too) imitates art. What happens when zombie fans and real zombies collide? The Monroeville Zombies project tells that story and parodies both the survival horror genre and its fandom.
“We are thrilled to launch the Monroeville Zombies 12″ action figure line with our very limited edition figure, Zombie Officer Kane Heinz,” says Time and Space Toys President Kevin Kriess. “Officer Heinz joined the hordes of the living dead while attempting to secure the mall in a now-classified security incident within the tale of Monroeville Zombies. He’s a great zombie character that fits right in with other 1/6 scale lines in need of extra ghouls”.
About Time and Space Toys, LLC:
Time and Space Toys is an online retailer of high quality, licensed toys and collectibles based on entertainment properties. Its brick and mortar store, Toy Galaxy, located in the historic Monroeville Mall, boasts a huge sales floor packed with unique merchandise and a knowledgeable sales staff. Toy Galaxy is dedicated to keeping the memory classic horror films alive by collaborating with the horror film industry and fans on opportunities to celebrate the location where the modern horror film began. Future Monroeville Zombies endeavors will include a mall tour and themed attraction, a comic book series, a clothing line and other collectibles. For more information, visit www.timeandspacetoys.com, www.MonroevilleZombies.com or Toy Galxy on the lower level of the Monroeville Mall.
About HorrorFind Weekend:
HorrorFind Weekend, a giant horror convention billed as “the spookiest show on earth,” features horror movie writers and actors, Halloween seminars, supernatural speakers, a giant dealers room and many special events. For more information, visit www.horrorfindweekend.com.
About Peril Unlimited:
Peril Unlimited is a small company founded by zombie aficionado Michael Jones. The company is the home of the Zombie Army Building Program and specializes in manufacturing extremely detailed 1/6 scale zombie action figures. For more information, visit www.perilunlimited.com.
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’28 Years Later’ – Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Join Long Awaited Sequel
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men), the director and writer behind 2002’s hit horror film 28 Days Later, are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel, 28 Years Later. THR reports that the sequel has cast Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu).
The plan is for Garland to write 28 Years Later and Boyle to direct, with Garland also planning on writing at least one more sequel to the franchise – director Nia DaCosta is currently in talks to helm the second installment.
No word on plot details as of this time, or who Comer, Taylor-Johnson, and Fiennes may play.
28 Days Later received a follow up in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, which was executive produced by Boyle and Garland but directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Now, the pair hope to launch a new trilogy with 28 Years Later. The plan is for Garland to write all three entries, with Boyle helming the first installment.
Boyle and Garland will also produce alongside original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of one-time studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel.
The original film starred Cillian Murphy “as a man who wakes up from a coma after a bicycle accident to find England now a desolate, post-apocalyptic collapse, thanks to a virus that turned its victims into raging killers. The man then navigates the landscape, meeting a survivor played by Naomie Harris and a maniacal army major, played by Christopher Eccleston.”
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer, though the actor isn’t set to appear in the film…yet.
Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024 thanks to this casting news. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
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