Check out the first episode in this cool looking zombie web series. It is by Neil Trusso and Vernon Mortensen who were both in the Navy. Neil as a US Navy SEAL and Vernon as a US Navy SWCC. Plus there are a load of real Navy SEALs starring in the series as well. Therefore, there is an excellent military feel to the proceedings.
Planet Earth is ravaged by a strange disease that turns people into mindless murderers. As civilization struggles to survive, a small team of US Navy SEALs must protect a doctor from the Center for Disease Control on a mission to evaluate the claims of an erratic scientist who may have discovered the secret to mankind’s salvation. Starring DB Sweeney, Gary Graham (Alien Nation, Star Trek) and Doug Jones (Hellboy, Legion).
Universal Dead (UnDead for short) started out as a movie idea that was kicked around for a while by Vernon Mortensen and Kelly Parks. The original idea was to make it into a feature film and distribute it through Unconventional Films’ sister company, Rogue Arts.
In the mean time, Kelly and Vernon, along with their business partner Neil Trusso, began production on Unconventional Films’ first web series, “The Crusader,” starring Stargate SG-1′s Colin Cunningham and featuring Star Trek Enterprise’s Gary Graham.
Then one day Kelly wrote a short film called “The Presentation,” which took some of the ideas for Universal Dead and melded them together with Kelly’s theory about how zombies function (“It’s not a virus!”) and suddenly Universal Dead the web series was born.
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Source: io9
