INTERESTING FACT 1.
There was an opening which I thought about but never fully finished writing which used the fact that our pubs cellar was actually adjacent to the burial ground of the nearbye church and it involved a flash back to the 80s when a group of then college aged kids, doing a little phony black magic in the pub, after it had closed, had actually raised a Zombie in the cellar. It would then flash forward to the opening as it stands now.
anyway...
again I wanted to re-write the second draft for many reasons mainly due to the fact that by the time it was finished I had left the pub and some of the cast members were no longer around to play their written characters. (I am glad it happened that way with hindsight because of 'Shaun of the Dead' so heavily using a pub in their film the similarities would have been too much to bare.)
The third draft pt.1 began about two years after the first draft had been finished (I had a life as well you understand!)
I call it the third draft PT.1 because the script was to remain the same, apart from a little tweaking, but a main actor was to drop out and therefore his part went to someone else and needed altering slightly to fit the new actor's personna.
I took scenes from the first draft and re-wrote them, scenes from the second draft an re-wrote them and changed almost all the settings with only the opening, the ending and the army scenes remaining almost identical. At this point I had a jigsaw of a script missing only two or three key scenes. I polished them off and re-wrote a few of the other scenes to tie in and I was more or less done. A finished script I could film, regardless of my living arrangements, cast availability and with enough funny cameos to get ALL my friends involved somehow.
The script we ended up filming was the third draft Pt.2 because as I explained we had a major shift around of tone for one of the leading players but apart from that, 3 and a bit years to the day when I started, I was finished and breathed a well-earned sigh of relief. Unfortunately shortly after that was when this spate of Zombie movies started rushing into theatres and continues to this day with 'Resident Evil 2', continual rumours about George A. Romero's next project and a proposed sequel to 'Dawn of the Dead 2004'. I decided to crack on and make my film because A) I had worked so hard on the script for so long and B) I felt mine was individual enough so that all that saw it would realise I am not just here to keep the bandwagon a rolling...
