This month marks four years since it was announced Ben Wheatleythe director of ‘Megalodon 2: The Pit’ recently, will write, direct, and executive produce ‘Generation Z’, a series of “funny, scary and political” 6-hour episodes about “flesh-eating zombies in a story that satirizes how Brexit has divided Britain”. That project was forgotten with the pandemic, but after the success of Jason Statham’s film and the prehistoric giant shark, Wheatley has confirmed that the zombie series is still alive and will be his next project.

Special media in horror films fangoria had saved Wheatley’s words in his ‘Megalodon 2: the hole’ screening special: “What I’m going to do next is six hours for Channel 4, [una] tv series, something based on horror […] In the same way that I did in ‘In the Earth’ after ‘Rebecca’, I will do something that returns to the world of ‘Turistas’ and ‘Kill List’.”

4 years ago, when I first heard about the series, here was the synopsis: “The future looks bleak for today’s youth: the seemingly endless austerity, skyrocketing house prices, insurmountable student debt, a political system that seems bent on self-destruction… And most of all, your hard-earned taxes are being swallowed up by retirees arrogant, self-satisfied, narrow-minded, ‘little Englishmen’ whose only purpose in life left is to make themselves a misery to others.”

In a small town in England, tensions run high when a mysterious military convoy crashes outside the Sunnywise retirement home. The vehicle carried a toxic substance which, after the accident, seeped into the local environment and infected the residents of the retirement community. Symptoms of this infection appeared quickly: an overwhelming appetite for raw meat. They are old, they are angry and they are riotous. As the military struggles to control the outbreak and keep everything out of the media spotlight, uA group of ordinary teenagers find themselves in the middle of a battle against this carnivorous baby boomer..”

Empire (via Fangoria) confirmed that the series Wheatley was referring to was ‘Generation Z’, calling it satire “zoomer vs. boomer”. After Wheatley was done with the series, the filmmaker had expressed interest in working on new monster movies such as Godzilla and King Kong, and at one point set out to direct a Tomb Raider sequel that was ultimately cancelled. But in 2017 there were rumors of another collaboration with Alicia Vikander, ‘Freakshift’, a tribute to 1950s B films about “a bunch of freaks who hunt and kill nocturnal underground monsters” (i.e. giant crabs). Will this be the moment? Or maybe ‘Megalodon 3’…

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After completing his Masters Degree in Film Criticism at the Madrid Film School (ECAM) taught by Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, he has collaborated with and/or covered film festivals such as San Sebastián, Sitges and Filmadrid as a dedicated press for over 10 years. along the way, interviewing relevant directors, actors and actresses from national and international industries such as Penélope Cruz, Carlos Saura, Ana de Armas, José Luis Cuerda or José Sacristán and internationals such as James Wan, Edgar Wright or Dario Argento.

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