Invasion of the Not Quite Dead

Invasion of the Not Quite Dead
Promotional poster for Invasion of the Not Quite Dead
Directed by	Tony Lane
Produced by	Tony Lane Steve Davis
Written by	Tony Lane
Starring	Zach Galligan Frank Jakeman Terry Stone Holly Mathews Sapphire Elia Jon Campling Andrew Ellis Kieran Jones Chloe Ingamells Ajay Nayyar Tony Lane Jonn Blanchard Steve Davis Katie Phillimore
Music by	Misha Segal
Cinematography	Lux
Editing by	Andrea Carnevali
Distributed by	The Indywood Movie Project
Release date(s)	expected 2012 (UK)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Invasion of the Not Quite Dead is a black comedy horror film directed by Tony Lane.

Plot

In 1978 a meteorite crash lands into the Swiss Mountains, unleashing a deadly virus. Killing everyone within a 20 mile radius, the incident was covered up by local officials. Now thirty years later the virus is released onto an unsuspecting island off the coast of the UK. A group of survivors must band together in order to survive the death and destruction of the once friendly locals.

Cast

• Frank Jakeman as Sam
• Sapphire Elia as Alison
• Kieran Jones as Brian
• Ajay Nayyar as Blade
• Chloe Ingamells as Sara
• Tony Lane as Hanz
• Jonn Blanchard as Billy and Main Soldier 2
• Steve Davis as Main Soldier/Gillespie
• Katie Phillimore as Soldier 3

Production

Origins

Jan 2007 saw the birth of the INDYWOOD PROJECT, Antony Lane was in his final year of film school when he came up with a crazy unique concept for a ZOMBIE film. Over the course of the next 3 years he dedicated his life into raising awareness for his movie on the internet and began developing the first part to his planned trilogy. Raising money to make a film has to be one of the biggest struggles for any filmmaker, especially when you have no feature film experience and no contacts to open up doors, with his passion and motivation Antony began using the internet to attempt to raise his films budget independently, unfortunately his first FOUR attempts raised very little money, but instead he found that he was able to attract big names to support his project, media for the movie began mounting up and within 2 years of promoting 'INVASION' around the net, a very strong fan base began to evolve. In 2007, just when the movie seemed to be moving forward Antony was brutally attacked leaving him with a broken bone to his back and making him housebound for several months, his confidence was at an all time low, the films future began to look uncertain... Towards the end of the year Antony had a tough choice ahead of him, to give up on his life long dream of making a feature film or to have one final attempt at setting up a FAN FUNDRAISING site... Luckily he decided to give it one last shot. After several months of planning the new website Antony RE-LAUNCHED his INDYWOOD PROJECT on MAY 1st 2009 with a goal to raise a minimum of £100,000 by selling pre-order producer packages to 3000 horror fans. His original plan was to use the networking site twitter to give people real-time updates on the project. Within a few hours Antony had sold his first 4 pre-order producer packages, it then became apparent that twitter should be his primary fundraising platform to raise money from. In Aug 2009 Antony produced a teaser promo for the project which received its world premier at the Abetoir Horror Festival in November.. The teaser is now scheduled to open a high profile IMAX event in MAY 2010 which will have cast and crew of 'Harry Potter' in attendance as well as UK LIVING tv.

Filming

Principal filming began in Samokov and Despie in Bulgaria during April 2011 and teaser video has been released, production will move to the UK nearer the end of 2011.

Locations

• Bulgaria
• Kent

Music

Invasion of the Not Quite Dead includes music from Wheatus and MC Frontalot.

Release

As of October 2009 the film is still in pre-production, but a teaser trailer was shown at the Welsh Abertoir film festival on November 7, 2009 and a further teaser trailer was released on YouTube after the principal filming in April 2011.
The film is expected to be released in 2012.

Marketing

The film has been entirely funded by social network crowd-sourcing. In essence the films greatest marketing has been in its unique (for its time) funding methodology. Antony Lane's primary marketing tool has been Twitter and as well as fund raising he has executed several 'Twitterthons' whereby he has stayed awake for extended periods of time just fund raising on twitter.

Trivia

• Steve Davis performed his own stunts, including driving a car nose first over a 3 ft drop.
• Chloe Ingamells the star of the intro was also the main makeup artist for the intro shoot - she stepped in when the actor who was originally going to be the lead failed to turn up at the airport.
• Jessica Snyder created all the costumes in the intro, including the 70s wedding outfits worn by Sara and Billy, the costumes for the various extras and the Soldiers.
• Tony Lane used several camera during the shoot, the main footage was taken in HD using a Canon 5D MKII - but there was also a 7D and a couple of 550D's.
• The main car used in the intro shoot was a Wartburg 1.3, the starter was broken and it only had 2 working gears. Every time it was used it had to be push started by members of the crew. Chloe Ingamells christened the car Annie and got so attached to it she couldn't watch when it was destroyed.
• The various cars seen abandoned during shooting were rented from a scrap metal dealer. Most of them still worked though.

External links

• Invasion Of The Not Quite Dead Official 2011 Teaser Promo
• Project fundraising site
• Invasion Of The Not Quite Dead Official Movie Site
• Invasion Of The Not Quite Dead Official Teaser Promo
• Invasion of the Not Quite Dead Project Site (updates and info on pre-order packages)
• Invasion Of The Not Quite Dead at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Invasion of the Not Quite Dead-director AD Lane on (re)Search my Trash