Kill List, Free Fire and High-Rise director Ben Wheatley has created the Brexit zombie drama “Generation Z” for UK’s Channel 4 – his first television project since directing episodes of “Doctor Who”, Deadline reports this morning.
It will feature “rapacious” baby boomers and “disaffected” teenagers at each other’s throats, adds the site.
Here’s the logline, which is chillingly relevant:
“The future looks bleak for today’s youth – seemingly-endless austerity, astronomical house prices, insurmountable student debt, a political system which appears intent on destroying itself… And to add insult to injury, their hard-earned taxes are being eaten up by the old – smug, self-satisfied, small-minded, “Little Englander” pensioners whose remaining sole purpose in life is to make it a misery for everyone else.
Produced by Kiri producer The Forge, it will feature pitch-black humour and biting satire to tell how Brexit has divided the country, and in this case, led to brain munching.
As for the actual plot, the film takes place, “In a small British town, tensions come to a head when a mysterious military convoy crashes outside the Sunnywise Retirement Home. The vehicles were carrying a toxic substance, which, as a result of the crash, leaks into the local environment and infects the residents of the retirement community. The symptoms of this infection quickly manifest – an overwhelming appetite for raw flesh. They’re old, they’re angry and they’re on the rampage. As the military scrambles to control the outbreak and keep everything out of the media spotlight, a group of regular teenagers find themselves in the thick of the battle against these flesh-eating baby boomers.”
The series will go into production in 2020 and will be Executive Produced by Wheatley, Mark Pybus and George Faber. It is written and directed by Ben Wheatley.
