His 1998 “Gods and Monsters,” which he executive produced, garnered three Academy Award nominations and an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. An inveterate seeker who traverses between myriad styles with ease, Barker has left his indelible artistic mark on a range of projects that reflect his creative grasp of contemporary media - from familiar literary terrain to the progressive vision of his Seraphim production company. Gladiators a highly commercial and entertaining movie.”Ī visionary, fantasist, poet and painter, Clive Barker has expanded the reaches of human imagination as a novelist, director, screenwriter and dramatist. I am looking forward to providing my own perspective to make Zombies vs. Amazon Studios is an innovative creative concept. In twenty-five years of working in this town, I've rarely had people listen to what I had to say as closely and as carefully as they did and then simply give me the freedom to go do it. My brief to myself on this project is to give the audience not only zombies they have never seen before but also a Rome they have never seen before.”īarker added, “Amazon Studios offered up the dream ticket with this project. The other is a fantastical narrative element - the living dead. One of them concerns itself with the reality of the decadence of Rome and its rise and fall. Said Barker, “I’m excited by the opportunity to interweave two very rich narrative threads. “We are excited to see how Clive will add his unique narrative to capture the essence of this story and propel the project into something unique and original that could one day be enjoyed by all audiences.” Gladiators is now in the hands of someone who has written genre-defining material throughout his career,” said Roy Price, director, Amazon Studios. As a result of this overwhelming and popular support, Amazon is moving forward to develop the project with Clive Barker at the helm. Gladiators has been one of the most creatively engaging scripts, spurring tremendous interest within the community and movie fans alike, indicating its mainstream and commercial viability for the studio. From the moment it debuted at Amazon Studios, Zombies vs.
It’s up to a gladiator to stop the spread of the zombie horde and save Rome. Gladiators story opens as a shaman who is about to die in the Coliseum casts a spell that unleashes the world’s first zombies. today announced that Hellraiser creator and prolific horror and fantasy writer Clive Barker will rewrite the action horror project, Zombies vs. Gladiators, Amazon Studios will further develop the project for a mainstream commercial audience
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