If it were up to me, most movies would star Lea Thompson, Judge Reinhold and Ron Perlman, but sadly they don’t. However it looks like at least movie might have them all, as they’re attached to the new comedy zombie thriller Gatekeeper.
While Back To The Future’s Thompson and Hellboy himself, Ron Perlman, pop up in movies or on TV every so often, we haven’t heard much from Judge Reinhold for years (except for a role in The Santa Clause 3, but following therapy we’ve scrubbed that film from our minds, so we don’t remember him in it).The trio’s illustrious presence would suggest that the horror comedy is hoping to channel a bit of and 80s vibe, harking back to when fright flicks tended to be more flat out fun.
But before we get too overexcited about the 80s mainstays, it should be moted that Brick’s Matt O’Leary and 90210’s Jana Kramer will be the leads in a film in which a simple mistake leaves three friends to defend their town from a zombie outbreak.
The film will be the directing debut of Isaac Meisenheimer (whose main qualification seem to have been being the director’s assistant during reshoots on the Day Of The Dead remake). Sadly though, despite the great cast and the producer’s assertion that, “We intend to make a film in the vein of Shaun of the Dead for American audiences,” we smell this going straight-to-DVD.