That's what it's looking like for next year. So far, we've got:
I Am Legend: Based on the Richard Matheson book of the same title. Though technically vampires, the undead creatures in this classic more closely resemble the zombies that we know and love so well, and it wouldn't surprise me if they just ditched the bloodsucking monicker and just called them as they saw them. Will Smith stars as Neville, and Constantine's Francis Lawrence directs.
"Planet Terror": Robert Rodriguez's contribution to the co-helmed (with Quentin Tarantino) Grind House. The foxy Naveen Andrews, along with Rose McGowan and Josh Brolin, is attached to the gritty, "back to the 70s," exploitation-style horror (from what I've read, think Texas Chainsaw Massacre). Due out just in time for Easter.
World War Z: Rumor has it that Brad Pitt has obtained the rights to the forthcoming Max Brooks novel (author of The Zombie Survival Guide), beating out Leonardo DiCaprio's efforts to obtain.
Resident Evil: Extinction: Yeah, RE: Apocolypse was an unwatchable sack of suck (my attempts and subsequent failures to sit through it were threefold), but the franchise has merit, and the little girl in me who loves springtime and lace dresses (*hat tip*) has a secret hope that it will return to its gloriously cheesy origins to delight us all in this third installment. Milla Jovovich returns, the drooling incompetency of RE:A's Alexander Witt does not.
28 Weeks Later...: Am I hopeful? No. When Danny Boyle is removed from any equation, it becomes infinitesimally less cool. When you then also rob me of Alex Garland, well, in most cases, we wouldn't even be speaking anymore. However, the first film was fine enough to guarantee that I'll follow to the sequel, with or without the major players still attached. In the second installment, we pick up, as the title implies, half a year after the first concluded, with American troops unloading in an decimated Britain. As one might imagine, hijinx ensue. We'll see how it goes.
30 Days of Night: Yeah, yeah. Again, technically vampires. But as I figured it was worth mentioning so long as we're talking undead. Based on the graphic novel by Steve Niles, directed by David Slade (Hard Candy, Stone Temple Pilots' "Sour Girl" video), and produced by the zombie lovin' Sam Raimi, I've got high hopes. That Josh Hartnett's been recently attached doesn't hurt either.
Add in the pending release of Stephen King's Cell (see my earlier gleeful clapping on the matter), and it is shaping up to be a very, very good year.
So very excited about half of them, and I'm equally gleeful that Sienna Guillory's gonna be in RE:E, though the second one blew like a hurricane. Still, here's hoping.
Yay!
I was soooo excited about I Am Legend....... Until I found out about Big Will. *sigh*
Neville was an angsty bastard and you just know Will Smith's gonna be all home-boy.
Between that and the bag of ass that I'm not convinced another RE movie won't be, my enthusiasm is severely dampened.
Dampened, but not dead... Bring on Cell, baby!
Did you know Michael Straczynski (who wrote Rising Stars *gleeee*) is writing the script for World War Z? He's also writing the script for The Changeling, which I heard Angelina Jolie is in talks with to star. *moreglee*